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Years ago, Toma recieved widespread acclaim for saving the Croatian president from a stroke via his supernatural powers. Years later, he arrives on a small Adriatic island, intending to build the headquarters of his would-be healing organization, which he names The Temple of Pure Love. Toma uses this opportunity to scam the locals out of their money and sleep with as many women as possible, but, when his son Ante falls in love with one of these women, a local baker named Ana, the generational conflict begins to create a strong disconnect between the two.
At a usual Sunday lunch with his parents, son Ivan, a seemingly calm and composed man in his mid-thirties, in a sudden burst of emotions, causes a scene and opens up showing his vulnerability and almost childlike need for his parentsā attention and support.
On the eve of the war, a former army officer Pavle is torn between the reality that forces him to decide and choose a side, and his own life dilemmas. He becomes increasingly preoccupied with morbid thoughts which leads his life to a tragic epilogue.
A journalist finally gets her first big break after she gets assigned to write a story on Roko, a young man whose been recieving death threats from the representatives of the local organized crime syndicates after his brother falls in major debt with them. She publishes the story, but this only increases the threats, leading to a harrowing tragedy.
"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.
The first story is about the wife and the daughter of a sailor, and various ties that connect him to the people in his homeland. The second story takes place on a ship that has just been delivered to the cutting room where the old sailor and his faithful dog are.
The Trampoline is not a romantic love story - it is a film about a powerful and sometimes double-edged love, and the darker side of a mother-daughter bond that has been stretched to breaking point.
After the death of her father, young scientist Ana struggles with an identity crisis, being the last member of a once large family. The changes inside her are suddenly reflected in reality ā loneliness, crisis, emigration ā and her scientific research on mystical symbols and human traces left in stone are mysteriously intertwined with her life.
The PriÅ”t brothers are at a crossroads, preparing for their acting studies. KreÅ”o, the older brother, has a hump and too much confidence. The other brother, Kruno, who canāt properly pronounce some words, finds out he has failed his entrance exam at the Faculty of Forestry and his girlfriend has left him. They chose their neighbour ÄrÄek, who lives in the same building, to supervise their preparations for studying acting. ÄrÄek is one of those characters who canāt do anything right, but at the same time he is likeable, chatty and ready to help.
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.
Tina (28) lives in what appears to be an idyllic marriage in town on the Adriatic coast. She is a housewife who takes care of their six-year-old daughter, while her husband Frane (32) provides for the family. Their relationship begins to change when Tina expresses her desire to complete the college education she had to abandon due to pregnancy. Despite initially consenting and supporting her, Frane starts showing disapproval, initially through minor acts of sabotage. Over time, conflicts become more frequent, and arguments turn increasingly violent.
Life Is a Trumpet has a loose jazz musician as the groom, a butcher as his father, and two families of different backgrounds whose members are not as different as one might expect.
A 1996 Croatian language drama film directed by Eduard GaliÄ, starring Vlasta KnezoviÄ, Ivo Gregurevic and Edo Perocevic.
Arriving on an island, a young woman embarks on a journey to discover her identity and place in the world. Her experiences on the island unravel a tapestry of past events, bringing hidden truths to light. As the situation grows increasingly complex, she is driven towards a profound reconciliation and acceptance, starting with herself and gradually encompassing those around her.
The film is a high-concept project with five stories exploring the themes of motherhood and pregnancy, directed by women filmmakers from five former Yugoslav republics. āCroatian Storyā follows an anguished painter who must decide whether or not to keep one of her unborn twins, diagnosed with Down syndrome. āSerbian Storyā finds an expectant mother in the same emergency room with a charming killer. āBosnia-Herzegovina Storyā centers on a financially strapped Sarajevo family whose son?s lover is pregnant. āMacedonian Storyā unfolds in a clinic where a drug addict struggles to keep her baby, and āSlovenian Storyā ends the omnibus on a humorous note with a nun who finds her own way to immaculate conception.
After their son has been beaten up in the street, parents find their world of false security collapsing and have to re-examine their lives and question everything into what they believed.
A big family reunion at the weekend cottage around traditional food preparation "kotlovina" (pig on a spit and lots of drinking) with quaintly amusing and earnest situations revealing what is stronger: ties of blood and background or culture and the way of living.
The thematic framework of the anthology feature film DEEP CUTS is violence in all of its forms: as a destruction of intimacy, family, integrity, trust.
A godforsaken mountain village is the only home that a young football player, a miser peasant and an obese girl have. This isolated part of the country finds itself in the middle of the referendum regarding Croatia's decision of joining 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 obese 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.
