Josip Genda

Acting

Josip Genda

Acting credits

The Hole poster
7.7

Two neighbors quarrel through the hole in the wall which connects their bedrooms.

The Hole

1989

Thirty Horses poster
NR

An ambitious carpenter from Dalmatian village puts an old mill back in function in order to prove himself worthy among the locals.

Thirty Horses

1988

The Seventh Cronicle poster
10.0

In the mid-1950s, an unnamed convict succsesfully manages to escape from the Goli Otok prison island, seeking shelter in a monastery on the nearby island of Rab and striking a kinship with one of the nuns in it. A few days later, an agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service arrives on the island, desperate to find the man's whereabouts. The nuns and the monks face a decision of their lifetime. Are they going to turn the wounded man they know nothing about to the authorities, or will they continue concealing him and risk their lives in the process?

The Seventh Cronicle

1996

The Time of Warriors poster
7.5

Two friends, Fabijan and Dakar, each with their own murky past, decide to go on a fishing trip. However, a lazy spring afternoon becomes a fight for survival after they're attacked by group of mysterious strangers.

The Time of Warriors

1991

Tressette: A Story of an Island poster
NR

Three friends in desperate search for the fourth player of the card game called tressette.

Tressette: A Story of an Island

2006

Giovanni poster
NR

Through the window of his old building, curious and idle Mr Piero "spies" the apartment across the street where lives Giovanni, an Italian soldier. Despite his wife's resentment and ridicule from the neighborhood, Piero cannot resist the temptation of dangerous surveillance. His curiosity is heated upon noticing that his neighbor returned from the war campaign in the hinterland with bloodied hands.

Giovanni

1976

From One Friday to the Next poster
7.0

Friday is the day that everyone goes away for the weekend. A bank clerk spends his weekend off a small island with his boat, but the weekend does not run its usual course.

From One Friday to the Next

1985

Man and Architecture poster
NR

The subject is the contrast between old and new Split. Journalist Duje lives in a new apartment in a large green skyscraper, but his heart is drawn to his childhood, where he meets old neighbors and for a short time experiences their sorrows and joys, witnesses their quarrels and misunderstandings, but also moments of togetherness and solidarity. Most of the action takes place in the common yard where the neighbors meet at every opportunity. The sudden illness of old Domina brings excitement into their lives and creates unusual complications that will bring changes to the peaceful everyday life of these good-natured people.

Man and Architecture

1977

The Canyon of Dangerous Games poster
6.4

A German family Keller arrives to the coastal village to spend summer holidays with their Croatian friends. Horst Keller and Roger Katushic were friends ever since Karl May's film adaptations took place there. Their children were friends for years, too, and they look forward to the reunion. Fantasizing about free life and "cowboys & Indians" adventures in the canyon of the Cetina river, the boys go there without knowing that the three cruel Chetniks who had just escaped from prison hide there.

The Canyon of Dangerous Games

1998

All the Years in One Night poster
5.0

Passing away, an old lighthouse keeper recollects the key events of her life, with the past and the present converging at her deathbed.

All the Years in One Night

1980

Transatlantic poster
7.8

A young man flees to the United States searching for the American dream.

Transatlantic

1998

Madonna poster
6.5

In a small Croatian village in 1991, a carpenter Kuzma falls for much younger Ana. In spite of their surroundings' opposition towards their relationship, the couple marries and Ana gives birth to their son. Being also familiar with the statuary, he makes a sculpture of Madonna for the local church. A quiet life of the village is disturbed when the first clashes between Croats and Serbs arise.

Madonna

1999

Garcia poster
8.0

Dramatic story of a returnee from Argentina who tries to find answers to the unfortunate events from the past.

Garcia

1999

House on the Sand poster
6.0

An archaeologist returns from Spain. Living alone, he goes about his daily rituals. A haunting leads to tragedy, raising further questions of the man’s life.

House on the Sand

1985

The Murmur of the Shell poster
7.0

A pharmacist travels from the island to the usual medical treatment at hospital in Zagreb. He's followed by low-ranked regime official whose conduct reveals all the misery that arises between people living in totalitarian systems.

The Murmur of the Shell

1990