
Acting
Helena Buljan
Born
1941-07-09 (85)
Place of birth
Đurđenovac, Croatia
Known for
Acting
Credits
37 titles
Known for
9.0A widower from Split arrives in Zagreb for a medical checkup and disrupts his son’s family everyday.
Stylish in the Guests
2008
5.5Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
1988
NRIt tells about mutual conflicts and the decline of the once rich and prominent Zagreb family Dombrovski. In this large family, women have always been in charge of decisions. The plot takes place immediately after the death of the founder and owner of the company, Vladimir Dombrovski.
Klara Dombrovska
1976
4.9Nikola is a man who knows how to really enjoy life; he's even able to rouse sympathy for his sinful ways. His brother turns a blind eye to his philandering although, with a broken marriage behind him, he doesn't have a clear conscience, either. Is there anything positive to be said about infidelity, or does it simply deserve the utmost contempt, particularly when it's more premeditated than spontaneous?
Just Between Us
2010
9.0The extended version of the eponymous film served as a TV mini-series. The plot is centered in the city of Karlovac in 1992, during the Croatian War of Independence. The front lines, where Croatian and Serbian forces fight each other, lie near the city. Meanwhile, in the city of Karlovac, a Serbian civilian Vasić is murdered. The story follows the local police officer Barbir (Dražen Kühn), who tries to solve the murder in spite of ethnic hatred and war revolving nearby.
Witnesses
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9.0Eduard Galić’s movie based on the book by Vjenceslav Novak.
The Last of the Stipancics
1968
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
8.0This is a story about Paulina P. in which we follow her adventures in class and at home, as well as all the problems she successfully overcomes during the school year. The movie is based on a famous children's book in which she talks about her friendship, love, and family-related problems through comic situations. The plot of the movie itself is set in the real world, with a touch of "magic".
The Diary of Paulina P.
2023
6.1Belgrade, 1996. During the student demonstrations against the Milosevic regime, 15-year-old Stefan leads his own revolution in the heat of events: accepting the unacceptable, seeing his mother as an accomplice in the crime and finding, despite the love he feels for her, the strength to confront her.
Lost Country
2023
7.0Adem, a Bosnian coal miner who spends his days digging in the dark depths, and in very harsh conditions, is praised for his work and achievements and known as an exemplary socialist worker.
Life of a Shock Force Worker
2023
NRIn a dystopian post-apocalyptic future, residents of an apartment building seek their last chance for survival by following a cat's wet footprints. But, the real threat to their survival doesn't lie in thirst, but, rather, within themselves.
Following...
2020
2010s · 2 titles
4.9Nikola is a man who knows how to really enjoy life; he's even able to rouse sympathy for his sinful ways. His brother turns a blind eye to his philandering although, with a broken marriage behind him, he doesn't have a clear conscience, either. Is there anything positive to be said about infidelity, or does it simply deserve the utmost contempt, particularly when it's more premeditated than spontaneous?
Just Between Us
2010
6.0This TV series follows the life of Andrija Hebrang (1899-1949), a Croatian and Yugoslav communist politician. A member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia until his dismissal, he served as the 4th Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Croatia.
Hebrang
2010
2000s · 3 titles
6.6Karlovac, Central Croatian Front, 1991. Three Croatian soldiers try to detonate a Serb civilian's home, but are stopped in their efforts by the homeowner, whom they kill in retaliation. The only witness to the murder is the man's daughter, whom they decide to kidnap to prevent the truth from spreading out and causing political unrest. Nevertheless, the case gets out and, unebenknownst to each other, five different people: a homicide investigator, a medical examiner, a local politician, a reporter and the brother of one of the perpetrators, decide to track the perpetrators down to stop the truth from getting out.
Witnesses
2003
10.0Ante is a village fella who arrives in Zagreb to study at the faculty of forestry.
Ante Returns Home
2001
8.4Wanting to publish their first solo album, an up and coming rock band decides to give up on following the unwritten "Rock and Roll Code" in order to play a few cheesy love songs for the upcoming wedding of Siniša, a corrupt and violent police officer. What they don't know is that Siniša's bride-to-be is none other than Anja, the ex-girlfriend of their founder Stream, and that the ceremony won't be just a wedding, nor merely a moneymaking opportunity, but, rather, a high-stakes rescue operation, started by a reignited flame.
Play Me a Love Song
2007
1990s · 4 titles
5.4After returning from the Eastern Front to their small Croatian village as veterans of the First World War, Jovan Stanisavljević (nicknamed Čaruga) and his comrade known only as Mali join forces with the gang led by a local bandit and communist revolutionary Boža The Red. After Boža is brutally murdered by law enforcement officials, Čaruga takes over as the gang's leader, turning them into a bloodthirsty troop that won't take no for an answer.
Charuga
1991
6.5In the early 1920s, filmmaker and cabaret director Karlo Armano meets a mysterious woman who only calls herself Dora. After a night of passionate romance, he wakes up to find her missing and goes on a quest to find her, soon realizing that the woman he had fallen in love with is none other than famed composer and autonomist Dora Pejačević.
Countess Dora
1993
6.8After spending 13 years in prison, forty-year-old Đuka Begović returns to his ancestral home in Slavonia. He makes a promise to his mother that he will begin a new and honest life. He finds new meaning in taking care of his daughter Smilja. He tries to chase away destructive thoughts that threaten to overwhelm him by throwing himself into hard work. However, everything around him reminds him of his past and his family's tragic destiny. His family was wealthy at the beginning of the twentieth century, but was destroyed by the capitalist powers that took over the villages and broke the traditional family cooperatives.
Djuka Begovic
1991
9.0Classical music program on one Zagreb radio station is suddenly interrupted when disturbed war veteran, armed with hadngrenade and explosives, breaks in with strange demands and convincing threats.
Night for Listening
1995
1980s · 7 titles
5.5Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
1988
5.8Musicologist and professor Kosor wakes up in a hospital. He has survived a serious car accident. In a bed next to his lies the amiable economist Gajski, whose wife Melita regularly visits him. This unusually beautiful woman is the first person that Kosor sees after he gains consciousness and is completely enchanted by her. Kosor becomes obsessed by Melita’s physical beauty and her trustworthy character and begins a risky game of writing and sending her anonymous love letters…
Premeditated Love Letters
1985
7.0The adaptation of a lesser known novel by Nobelist Ivo Andric, which describes the life of a spinster who was overwhelmed by a single passion: avarice.
The Woman from Sarajevo
1980
NRA group of upper class people celebrate New Year's Eve in a house seemingly possessed by ghosts.
One's Own Arrangement
1982
NRAfter a twenty-year absence, psychiatrist returns to his hometown, where a meeting with old acquaintances and a former love will lead him to a life-threatening situation.
Kvit posla
1983
8.0Based on a TV sit-com series and set in World War II, about how an ordinary woodcutter develops into an active partisan fighter.
Find a Way, Comrade
1981
NRLidija is a wealthy Zagreb lady who, during the German occupation, begins to collaborate with Yugoslav Resistance.
Lidija
1981
1970s · 10 titles
NRIt tells about mutual conflicts and the decline of the once rich and prominent Zagreb family Dombrovski. In this large family, women have always been in charge of decisions. The plot takes place immediately after the death of the founder and owner of the company, Vladimir Dombrovski.
Klara Dombrovska
1976
9.0The action takes place in a village where police investigates a murder committed because of an accordion.
The Accordion
1972
8.0A TV film based on Chekhov’s 'Ariadna'.
Psychopaths
1974
NRDuring the days of carnival festivities, two gentlemen from Split become victims of their own ambitions. While looking for a husband for the widow Redja, Piero gets entangled in his own webs, while his friend Niko does everything he can to avoid getting a mother-in-law along with his future wife.
Whole World Is Silly!
1971
8.0A theater premiere of Timon of Athens ends with a rapturous applause from the audience, and Boris, the lead actor (Boris Buzančić), is congratulated for having played the role of his lifetime. Encouraged by the sense of his own worth, he starts a romantic affair with a prompter, spurring gossip in the theater. The ensemble embarks on a tour, but as their performances achieve more success, Boris is becoming less liked among his colleagues, and he begins to experience the fate of the character he is playing...
Timon
1973
NRThe story of the Dubrovnik landowner Nikša Prokulić, who fiercely opposes romance between his daughter Jela and the Czech officer Marek, member of the Austro-Hungarian army that occupied their city in 1814, after the departure of the French. The story of the final downfall of the Republic of Dubrovnik thus also becomes the story of the agony of an ancient aristocratic family.
The Parting Song
1979
NRA farcical parody about a group of upstarts who, in the imaginary seaside town of Cipoli, clash with the Venetian cops, led by the comical captain Trapollo.
Dramolett by Chiribilli
1972
7.2A Partisan unit goes into battle with the enemy twice stronger, somehow resists detachment to attack deep into the night, where the fraud are captured combatants from all units and thrown to the terrible torture and eventually murder.
1st Split Detachment
1972
6.5A film about a small-time gangster, a loser who seems is finally on the road of going straight.
Deps
1974
NRThis drama premiered in Zagreb in 1935. The plot shows a young man from a well-to-do bourgeois family facing the anger of his parents over his absences from high school, behind which stands his forbidden love with a girl of humble working-class background.
The Case of Graduate Wagner
1976
1960s · 4 titles
9.0Eduard Galić’s movie based on the book by Vjenceslav Novak.
The Last of the Stipancics
1968
NRIn a construction company faced with the suspension of production due to lack of profitability, an engineer still believes in the effectiveness of his work in the province, however it affects the relationship with the girlfriend.
Wet Skin
1966
6.9Two friends try to tear out their lives from the clutches of idle. An existential study of ordinary lives led by two alienated urban white collar workers, Accidental Life was the only feature film of Ante Peterlić, Croatian film theorist and film critic. The film received mediocre reviews and went largely unnoticed after its release, but has been reevaluated decades later as one of the best Croatian films ever made.
Accidental Life
1969
NRBased on the play by Milan Begović. One day a stunning yacht enters the Split harbor, the owner is an American who served as young boy in local aristocratic household.
The American Yacht in the Split Harbour
1969
Series credits
9.0A widower from Split arrives in Zagreb for a medical checkup and disrupts his son’s family everyday.
Stylish in the Guests
2008
9.0The extended version of the eponymous film served as a TV mini-series. The plot is centered in the city of Karlovac in 1992, during the Croatian War of Independence. The front lines, where Croatian and Serbian forces fight each other, lie near the city. Meanwhile, in the city of Karlovac, a Serbian civilian Vasić is murdered. The story follows the local police officer Barbir (Dražen Kühn), who tries to solve the murder in spite of ethnic hatred and war revolving nearby.
Witnesses
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NRAn adaptation of Ivo Kozarčanin's novel of the same name and consists of four episodes. The protagonist is a young official named Valentin, and the plot shows his childhood, growing up and a disastrous marriage that will end in murder.
The Man Himself
1970
