Dražen Čuček

Acting

Dražen Čuček

Acting credits

Extraordinary poster
8.0

When ten-year-old Alice's parents mysteriously vanish one day, she turns to a spirited group of young detectives for help. Their mission becomes more challenging when her brother Milan must join their investigation. He can't be left alone, and wherever Alice goes, he goes too. Milan sees and experiences the world differently, and what starts as a complication soon becomes their greatest strength. The children discover creative and heartwarming ways to connect with Milan, and his unique perspective proves invaluable to their detective work. Together, this unlikely team embarks on an extraordinary adventure, unraveling clues and solving a mystery bigger than they ever imagined. Through friendship, understanding, and courage, they not only crack the case but also discover something even more precious: the power of acceptance, the magic of true teamwork, and bonds that will last a lifetime.

Extraordinary

2026

Cricket & Antoinette poster
7.2

Two main characters, Cricket and Antoinette, represent two separate worlds, the world of noise, chaos and creativity on the one side, and the world of work, order and discipline on the other. As they fall in love, in spite of obvious differences, they manage to create harmony.

Cricket & Antoinette

2023

Over and Over Again poster
NR

There are reasons for loving you less and paths that always lead back to you.

Over and Over Again

2017

National Hero Lily Vidic poster
5.3

This comedy of the absurd is set in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The hero, Ljiljan is a young peasant poet who joins the Partisan movement just before it falls apart, abandoned by its leader Tito. The last remaining hope for resisting Nazism is to assassinate Hitler. Ljiljan’s task is to write a song that will allow his Partisan band to infiltrate the inner sanctum of the SS – by entering an SS talent show. If they win the competition, they will be invited to perform before Hitler and the NDH’s high command. This is a satirical coming-of-age tale with a difference, capturing the craziness, comedy and horror of war in the Balkans.

National Hero Lily Vidic

2015

The Last Serb in Croatia poster
5.1

Croatia, seven years after bankruptcy. There is a fight going on in the world - water has become more precious than oil. In order to get hold of it, the powerful are ready to start wars, conquer, destroy, and even plant a zombie-virus. Mico, a bon viveur from Zagreb, whose daily routine includes massage parlours, restaurants and cinemas, where he watches a movie series featuring his favorite actress Franka Anic, is caught completely off guard by the zombie-epidemics. Nevertheless, he boldly embarks on an Odyssey accompanied by his movie heroine, with one highly unattainable, goal: to survive.

The Last Serb in Croatia

2019

Play Me a Love Song poster
8.3

The main character Struja (Stream) is an unyielding rock musician in a demo-band called When Dirty Harry Met Dirty Sally. Struja would do anything to gather money to record the album as long as it doesn't involve giving up his rock musician beliefs. However, playing pop songs at weddings seems to be the only way out, and the rest of the bend - Struja's best friend and keyboard player Mario (Ivan Duricic), Deni, a handsome singer and bass player (Ivan Glowatzky) and Zlajfa, an indifferent drummer (Hrvoje Keckes) - are trying to persuade Struja to make a compromise. At the beginning he is very firm and reluctant to give in, but when Anja, the girl he left, announces that she is pregnant with his baby, Struja suddenly realizes that there are bigger issues in life than playing at wedding.

Play Me a Love Song

2007

Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day poster
7.5

Spanning decades, the film follows lovers Lovro and Nenad and their friends Stevan and Ivan, a group of gay partisans who fought against the Ustashas and Nazis. Sixteen years later, they became renowned filmmakers navigating life in post-WWII Communist Yugoslavia. As they rise to fame, they are forced to create propaganda for the regime, risking everything to protect their identities and each other. In 1957 their sexual orientation raises suspicion, and a communist party loyalist named Emir is assigned to sabotage their careers and lives, a party loyalist hiding his own secrets, whose loyalties begin to falter. The pursuit of freedom becomes a fight for survival for the artists, while Emir's beliefs are challenged. Lush, intimate, and politically charged (and with startling parallels to our current political climate), Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day is a poignant story of resistance — against oppression, against silence, and for the freedom to live and love without fear.

Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day

2026

Sleep Sweet, My Darling poster
6.8

A bittersweet coming of age of Tomica Skrinjar, starting at the tail end of World War II in 1945.

Sleep Sweet, My Darling

2005

24 Hours poster
6.3

A two-part omnibus consisting of b/w comedy about a group of friends who try to cover up a murder, and thriller set in an abandoned warehouse where three policemen guard their witness-collaborator who claims "they" will come and shoot them all.

24 Hours

2002

Lea and Darija poster
6.1

It’s inspiring true story about two thirteen-year-old girls who were, on the eve of World War II, great dancing and acting stars in Zagreb. Selling out theatre venues, they were praised in the most superb headlines by the Croatian and European press. They were filmed by Parisian Pathe and Berlin’s UFA… During the Nazi persecution of Jews and the later German nationals’ flight from communists, a dramatic friendship was born through entertainment, dance, but also anxiety. This led towards an unexpected end.

Lea and Darija

2011