Rene Bitorajac

Acting

Rene Bitorajac

Born

1972-03-02 (54)

Place of birth

Zagreb, Croatia

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Rene Bitorajac is a Croatian actor.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 6 titles

The Nut Job poster
5.9

Surly, a curmudgeon, independent squirrel is banished from his park and forced to survive in the city. Lucky for him, he stumbles on the one thing that may be able to save his life, and the rest of park community, as they gear up for winter - Maury's Nut Store.

The Nut Job

2014

The General poster
1.8

During the Croatian War of Independance, former French Foreign Legion operrative Ante Gotovina offers his expertise to the newly founded Army of the Republic of Croatia, quickly gaining the favour of the country's higher ups and becoming one of the conflict's most recognizable faces, loved by his troops and feared by his enemies.

The General

2019

The Last Serb in Croatia poster
5.0

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

ZG80 poster
6.8

ZG80 is a prequel of Metastaze. The movie brings back its characters to prewar Yugoslavia where they, as part of Bad Blue Boys, go on a football match in Belgrade to see Dinamo play against Crvena Zvezda. They encounter guest fans, their arch rivals Delije, in a series of events that lead to football fans war on the streets of Belgrade.

ZG80

2016

The Vegetarian Cannibal poster
6.4

Danko Babic is an ambitious and amoral gynaecologist at Croatia's leading fertility clinic. When his colleague Bantic is appointed as head of the clinic, Babic starts a secret war to overthrow his rival. Distracted by his ruthless campaign he makes series of fatal mistakes that result in the death of a patient. A crooked coroner and a corrupt police officer cover up his misdeeds, while Babic grows increasingly dependant on drugs and alcohol. He begins performing illegal abortions on prostitutes who work for Jedinko, a gangster who controls the local drug and sex trade.

The Vegetarian Cannibal

2012

President Nixon's Present poster
NR

1969, Ex-Yugoslavia. Low profile agents Stipe and Pedja get a special assignment: to deliver a present from US president Richard Nixon to Yugoslavian president Tito at his summer residence on Brijuni Islands. Seems like task with zero chance to fail. But..

President Nixon's Present

2014

2000s · 10 titles

No Man's Land poster
7.5

Two soldiers from opposite sides get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?

No Man's Land

2001

Long Dark Night poster
6.9

"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war government, and his eventual downfall.

Long Dark Night

2004

Metastases poster
7.3

The story of four petty criminals in Zagreb, a city recently coming off of the horrors of the Croatian War of Independance, reflects the petty hatreds, violence, prejudices and mood hanging over the country like a disease that spreads with no cure in sight.

Metastases

2009

Cheese and Jam poster
5.8

A story about a couple from the bottom of the social ladder, about smuggling refugees across borders and other 'suspect' things- it is, first and foremost, an attempt to tell a story about the worst in people, wherever they may be coming from.

Cheese and Jam

2003

Obituary for Escobar poster
6.3

Serbian crime drama focusing on Belgrade's violent criminal underworld. Obituary For Escobar distinguishes itself from other recent crime dramas with its strong visual style and energetic approach. Borko was a young effeminate boy bullied at school by the self-styled 'Ghandi'. Years on, Ghandi is now a warlord, wrecking mayhem in pursuit of his ambition to become the leading drug lord in the Balkans. His execution of the rival 'Serbian Escobar' coincides with the mysterious placement of an obituary for the real Escobar by two stoners. In Ghandi's pursuit of the assailants he meets Lela, a stunning mystery woman who leads Ghandi to reconsider both "Borko" and his life in crime.

Obituary for Escobar

2008

Comrade Black in World War II poster
2.4

Set in April of the turmoil that is the year 1941. The Germans have occupied Yugoslavia and its capital Belgrade. Adolf Hitler is again drawing the new borders of Europe. Remains of Belgrade are filled with chaos, despair, black markets, famine and poverty. The Serbian people are broken up into national traitors, servants of the German occupants, chetniks, communists etc. That is the setting where our well-known characters find themselves. Our hero is Zivota Grujic – Comrade Black, the descendant of the notorious Black Gruya. Just as cunning and witty as his predecessor, Comrade Black endeavors to make use of every situation he finds himself in. Ideal opportunities open up when against his own will, he is forced to cooperate with all the present influential heads of Europe.

Comrade Black in World War II

2009

Rascals and Princesses poster
NR

Five young adults with entirely different personalities become neighbors after looking for a flat. The big flat is rented by Teo - successful lawyer who's luck is on it's last legs, Kazo - confused cinephile and Teo's best friend, and Robi - a guy who always want to be in the centre of attention, who loves football and women. Smaller flat is rented by Irena - ex-miss and model who is "constantly" working on self, and tries to fix own problems with her look, and Lucija, Irenas polar opposite - confused girl who's experiences life around her in a weird way. Once they all settle in one place, anything is possible.

Rascals and Princesses

2005

24 Hours poster
6.2

A two-part anthology consisting of two early feature films of pioneering directors Goran Kulenović and Kristijan Milić. The first of the two stories (The Safehouse) follows three police officers send on duty to guard a very persuasive client who reveals details about their lives that only they themselves could know. The second story (Bottoms Up) follows a young man named Tom, who decides to spend a lazy summer afternoon by visiting his favorite neighborhood bar, but, the more time passes by, the worse his day there becomes.

24 Hours

2002

Witnesses poster
6.6

Karlovac, 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

Celestial Body poster
4.7

When two enemy sides exchange the captives in the middle of a minefield, a nameless man without identity and memory, subsequently named Jakov, leaves the column unnoticed and wanders around, wishing to minimize other people's sufferings. On his dangerous journey, he meets Lucija, a female soldier who runs an orphanage, a commander who got back from the Foreign Legion and runs a defense line from a discotechque, flies an old biplane into battle and meets a Serbian general who keeps Croatian POWs in an old factory.

Celestial Body

2000

1990s · 9 titles

The Three Men of Melita Zganjer poster
5.5

Melita is a young, perky and plumpy pastry shop worker who spends her evenings avoiding social gatherings, watching Latin American telenovelas, putting up with the constant romantic rendez vous of her roommate Višnja and fantasizing about, one day, being in a happy relationship with a mysterious and exotic stranger. What she doesn't realize, however, is that she has a secret admirer, the pastry shop's delivery driver Janko.

The Three Men of Melita Zganjer

1998

A Summer to Remember poster
8.0

Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1890. A group of high-school students run away on an adventure that ends in scandal. The ringleader, Gusta, is expelled from school and sent to stay with his uncle in rural Turopolje. Here, a totally new world opens up to him, where the internal tragedies of the people are played out against the castle of Brezovica and a small town of wooden-framed houses. People end up in this idyllic exile because of some previous "sin" and try then to make the best of their lives there. But memories of the outside world impinge on their happiness.

A Summer to Remember

1990

Madonna poster
6.5

Lovrinci, Eastern Croatia, 1991. Kuzma Glavan, a middle-aged carpenter struggling to provide for his sickly mother, starts a relationship with the much younger Ana Šokčević, a teacher at the village school. The parents of both parties object to this relationship, however, they persist and soon their whirlwind romance results in marriage. However, their seemingly idyllic family life is thwarted when the ethnic conflicts between Croats and Serbs in the area start growing violent.

Madonna

1999

Every Time We Part poster
10.0

In Autumn of 1991, a Croatian soldier looses his wife and home to Serbian forces. Panicked, he grabs his daughter and, with nowhere else left to go, they leave for Zagreb, hoping to find shelter there. But, it turns out the streets of the war torn capitol are not much more safe nor pleasant than the village they had to leave behind.

Every Time We Part

1997

How the War Started on My Island poster
6.2

On a small island in the Adriatic, tensions rise between the local population and the forces of the Yugoslav People's Army. The locals try to fight the enemy with song, dance, music and motivational speeches, but, major Aleksa, the head of the batallion situated on the island, threatens to blow their barracks up with everyone inside them if the civilians don't retreat.

How the War Started on My Island

1996

When the Dead Start Singing poster
6.0

Homesick and desperate to provide proper financial care for his wife, Croatian migrant worker Cinco, decides to fake his death, and asks his best friend Marinko to steal the hearse he'll be transported in and drive it from Germany to Croatia. However, not everyone is fully aware of the true ramifications of Cinco's plan and the two are targeted by the German mafia, Serbian spies and, upon their return to their homeland, violent separatist paramilitary groups and superstitious locals.

When the Dead Start Singing

1998

Garcia poster
8.0

Garcia, a young Argentinian Croat, tries to find out the truth about the motives behind the seemingly politically motivated murder of his father. But, when signs start pointing to his mother's new husband Mihovil, he begins to doubt his cause.

Garcia

1999

Blues for Sara poster
6.0

Private detective Emil Marlovsek can boast a wealth of solved cases of run away and lost dogs. He is assisted in his work by his secretary Beba and Milivoj, a retired officer of the Yugoslav National Army. One evening, Emil encounters the beautiful Sara in the bar where he occasionally plays the piano and falls in love at first sight. The next morning Sara disappears. Not long after he is paid a visit by entrepreneur Grubelic whose wife is missing. Emil soon realizes that she is Sara and immediately starts to search for her. He discovers that Sara is being held prisoner by the mafia, on account of her husband's fishy business involving people in high places. The story's outcome is completely unexpected.

Blues for Sara

1998

See You poster
6.2

Four young men meet up for a funeral of their deceased mutual friend. Distraught by grief, they decide to pay their respects by performing a ritual they've been thinking about doing since early childhood.

See You

1995

Undated · 2 titles

Series credits

Our Little Clinic poster
6.5

Sitcom about the staff, patients, guests and all kinds of different events in a small clinic.

Our Little Clinic

2004

Volim Hrvatsku poster
NR

Two teams of famous celebrities compete in many different knowledge games about Croatia.

Volim Hrvatsku

2012

Your Face Sounds Familiar Croatia poster
NR

A show in which a person from public life will show his singing, dancing and impersonation skills and which will introduce us to a musical time machine where we will touch the brightest musical moments.

Your Face Sounds Familiar Croatia

2014

Metropolitans poster
NR

A year and a half after a strong earthquake and the pandemic starting, tenants from the damaged old city center move to the outskirts of the city. Tensions rise between people irritated by their own differences and by change.

Metropolitans

2022

Supertalent poster
NR

Supertalent is one of the world's most popular television formats, based on "Got Talent" by Simon Cowell and Ken Warwick. After successful seasons in several countries, including the American and British successful versions of "America's Got Talent" and "Britan's Got Talent", Croatia is giving the opportunity of their lifetime to the most talented people in the country.

Supertalent

2009

Punks and Princesses poster
6.4

Five friends with wildly different personalities share a turbulent everyday life where Robi’s intensity, Irena’s unpredictability, Kazimir’s awkwardness, Teo’s effortless confidence and Lucija’s sharp insight constantly collide, generating a stream of comedic mishaps that somehow keep their tight group together.

Punks and Princesses

2005

The Last Socialist Artefact poster
7.2

A businessman and an engineer arrive in a small town to restore an abandoned factory and manufacture a discontinued turbine for a mysterious client.

The Last Socialist Artefact

2021

Dancing with the Stars - Croatia poster
NR

The series follows various Croatian celebrities paired up with professional dancers competing for the win an elimination-style format.

Dancing with the Stars - Croatia

2006

Don't Touch My Mom! poster
NR

Budimir and Zlatko are two partners advocates. Apart from being business partners they also share a family connection. Budimir was married to Zlatko's late sister and is now living with his daughter Mia and his mother-in-law Dika, Zlatko's mother. Due to exceptional circumstances Zlatko loses his house and moves in with his mother, brother-in-law and niece.

Don't Touch My Mom!

2018

Ludi bar poster
NR

Antonija Blaće and Rene Bitorajac welcome Croatia’s biggest stars to playful challenges, spontaneous humor, and unpredictable games that reveal hidden talents.

Ludi bar

2019

Witnesses poster
9.0

The 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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