Acting

Danko Ljuština

Born 1952-02-24 · Karlovac, Croatia

Acting credits

No artwork available
7.0

After a series of unfortunate events, TV subscription collector Pero falls into a deep emotional crisis from which he cannot escape. His only goal is - spiritual peace and, if possible - revenge. People he holds responsible are randomly chosen citizens of the Pusca Bistra village. After he accidently finds out certain facts, Pero finds irrefutable evidence about unhonorable acts of Pusca's citizens and accidently blackmails the entire village.

Pusca Bistra

2005

The Brave Adventures of a Little Shoemaker poster
4.9

Apprentice Lapitch, the little shoemaker sets off on a journey after experiencing injustice from the cruel Master Mrkonja. On his journey he meets Gita, a beautiful little circus girl who is an orphan just like him. They share adventures and experience problems during their journey. They have nowhere to sleep, no food and are poorly clothed, but nothing scares them. They are bold and happy, willing to help everyone. On the night of the full moon something terrible happens, and changes everything...

The Brave Adventures of a Little Shoemaker

2013

The Horseman poster
6.9

The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.

The Horseman

2003

Swimming Lessons poster
8.0

A married couple of intellectuals, who have reached their third age, are not ready to get involved and accept the cruel rules that life imposes on them...

Swimming Lessons

1988

Manifesto poster
4.0

In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.

Manifesto

1988

On Sale poster
NR

A 1988 Serbo-Croatian language drama film written and directed by Eduard Galić, starring Miljenko Brlecic, Željko Duvnjak and Špiro Guberina.

On Sale

1989

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

Zagreb Stories poster
6.2

Nine short films are connected into one whole, and they describe life in Croatia's capital of Zagreb.

Zagreb Stories

2009

Cyclops poster
5.9

Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.

Cyclops

1982

Is It Clear, My Friend? poster
6.7

A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.

Is It Clear, My Friend?

2000

That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles poster
7.0

A student of architecture from Zagreb believes that the new model of city can meet the need of its citizens. However, his professors, the corrupt business environment and even the parents of his fiancée stand on his way.

That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles

1979

Rifle at the Crack of Dawn poster
NR

The plot takes place in Croatia during and immediately after the April war in 1941. The protagonists are a group of soldiers of the Royal Yugoslav Army of Croatian nationality, some of whom will join the Ustashas and the newly founded NDH after the war, and some the anti-fascist movement.

Rifle at the Crack of Dawn

1981

The Little Train Robbery poster
7.2

Lika, Austro-Hungarian Empire, the year is 1918, the last year of WWI. In a wasteland rocky area, among ravines there is a small gendarmery police station with several gendarmes headed by sergeant Cokula. The area is controlled by a group of outlaws led by Todor nicknamed "The Terrible". Sergeant Cokula and Todor did not bother each other, until bandits robbed the emperor's inspector.

The Little Train Robbery

1984

Leo and Brigita poster
7.0

TV movie about the life of a middle-aged Zagreb spinster in whose life quietly crept the man to whom she rented a room. Problems start when she realizes that her lodger does very strange and even bizarre job that police will not miss.

Leo and Brigita

1989

Blanka Kolak's Love poster
9.0

In the wild times of the Second World War, Blanka marries political grandee Pavle, who is shortly afterwards sent to Goli Otok as a political prisoner. Blanka has enthusiasm for photography, becomes independent and opens a studio of photography with Laco. But soon she realizes that her business partner is an impostor. Pavle returns from prison, but their relationship, despite awareness of the political interference in their intimate sphere, imbues the bitter chill and misunderstanding. Blanka tries to drown her endless problems in alcohol and seduce her only male friend, but her last rescue, the thread of love, is being interrupted as well. Is every love of Blanka Kolak sentenced to death, is love possible at all, is worth living without it?

Blanka Kolak's Love

1987

Return of Katarina Kozul poster
7.0

After her husband's death in Germany, an attractive young widow leaves his native village in Herzegovina to work abroad. There she starts an affair with an Italian worker that proves to be unsuccessful, yet she gets pregnant. She does an abortion, which is followed by another blow - her godfather Luka steals her hard-earned money.

Return of Katarina Kozul

1989

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

First Class Thieves poster
6.5

A story involving a group of traveling actors who perform at an experimental prison where the thieves have first class comforts provided to them by a reformist warden. Ironically the troupe performs a play named The State Thief, a play about thieves for thieves.

First Class Thieves

2005

One Shot poster
5.8

One accidental shot will intertwine the destinies of two young women - Anita, an inspector who gets on amazingly in professional and quite well in her private life and Petra, a young woman whose everyday life would surely be simpler if she did not have to take care of her alcoholic mother. The investigation on the accidental shot will intertwine their destinies at a moment when they both find that they are pregnant. A huge turning point in their lives, each in her own world and equally left on their own, these two women will, step by step, become close during the investigation.

One Shot

2013

God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen poster
7.0

The adventures of a small town Croatian family during the 1960s. The decade will leave eternal marks on all of their members, but most of the story focuses on the youngest one, a boy, Frula, who discovers the love and fashion of the time.

God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen

2002

The Man Under the Table poster
5.0

The microcosmic world of a street market on the outskirts of Zagreb: traders, thieves, prostitutes, self-appointed security guards and other lost souls, each with their own unique ideas, passion or mania. We follow the tragicomic, mutually intertwined mini dramas of each character, as they fight to save the marketplace itself, when city planners threaten to raze it to the ground and replace it with a skyscraper.

The Man Under the Table

2009

No artwork available
8.0

Felix Langus is increasingly obsessed with the idea of communicating with supernatural forces, which warn him of the great peril of danger. Attacks of obsession are triggered by aggressive media, which are constantly challenged by dangerous information in a graduated rhythm. At his job as a driver, he has more and more problems. He's moved to an undemanding workplace, but his obsession proves to be dangerous even there, which leads him to unpredictable and grotesquely funny complications. Together with his psychotherapist, he can not escape a common fate...

The Case of Felix Langus or How to Seize Freedom

1991

The Loner poster
NR

In this intriguing, bittersweet picture of the factory atmosphere from the era of socialist self-management, we follow the story of the factory porter Djuro who, unlike his colleagues, has been unable to get an apartment within “social ownership” for years.

The Loner

1976

The Lika Cinema poster
4.3

A godforsaken mountain village is the only home that a young football player, a miser peasant and a fat girl have. This isolated part of the country finds itself in the middle of the referendum for or against the EU. Our characters couldn't care less - they are absorbed in their problems. The young football player who accidentally killed his mother doesn't want to join a rich foreign football team and is willing to risk his father's love because of it. The lonely fat girl is so desperate for a friend and for a lover that she will end up seeking both in the pig-sty. The miser peasant will find out that the real misery is in loneliness.

The Lika Cinema

2008