Etta Bortolazzi

A TV film based on Chekhov’s 'Ariadna'.

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.

When Dr. Lovro Furato accidentally fails to treat the injured eye of the peasant Barisa Surac, the whole silent conflict between the two worlds, rich urban and backward rural, will emerge to the surface.

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.

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.

A new unpleasant tenant is moving into a Jewish apartment. One of the old tenants decides to scare him away with the help of the ghost of the Jewish family's patriarch.

An insight into multi-layered relations between natives and newcomers in the town of Pula following WWII and departure of Angloamerican forces.

Tena, a young Slavonian woman becomes aware of her own beauty which makes her fall into a state of moral decay. Her newly discovered promiscuity eventually makes her fellow villagers turn on her.

The subject is the contrast between old and new Split. Journalist Duje lives in a new apartment in a large green skyscraper, but his heart is drawn to his childhood, where he meets old neighbors and for a short time experiences their sorrows and joys, witnesses their quarrels and misunderstandings, but also moments of togetherness and solidarity. Most of the action takes place in the common yard where the neighbors meet at every opportunity. The sudden illness of old Domina brings excitement into their lives and creates unusual complications that will bring changes to the peaceful everyday life of these good-natured people.

A mouthy frog gets his wish when a princess’s kiss turns him into a human. But just because he’s got a voice doesn’t mean he has much to say.

A retired tram driver tries to find his daughter named Ana whom he lost in the Second World War.

During the Croatian War of Independance, Ana's home was raided, her family killed and she herself raped by a Serbian soldier named Mihajlo. Years have gone by, Ana had moved to Zagreb, found a boyfriend and managed to atleast partially get over her trauma. However, when she recognizes Mihajlo from the dozens of patrons in a bar, her painful memories flood right back. She tries to turn to bother her boyfriend and the police for help, but, when neither of them believe her, she's forced to take the situation into her own hands.

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.

Based 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.

After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is supposed to participate in the construction of the first generator in the Rade Koncar factory. Because there aren't enough experts and materials in Yugoslavia, the factory counts on help from fellow communist countries, Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union. However, after the Inform Bureau's resolution this help is no longer available. Sonja experiences a great intimate disappointment because Stjepan, who she is in love with, supports Stalin.

During 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.

In order to save a friend's daughter, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, from the Ustashas, the Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their son Ivo.

In the midst of the rising political tensions of the former Yugoslavia, a young man stumbles across evidence that might prove that his grandfather, who had been labled as an enemy of the state and sentenced to a prison camp, was actually been innocent all along.

Young social worker falls in love with a delinquent girl on the run.

A young female student of music finds herself in a Dalmatian town in order to practice organo playing in the local church, and there she falls in love with a timid young man who helps her with it.

The story of an inter-generational conflict between two brothers of completely different political and secular views.

In the last days of WW2 two children from former Yugoslavia manage to escape a Nazi concentration camp. They begin a long and dangerous journey home.

The painful challenges experienced in the life of a farmer from Zadar, Croatia, in the years from World War I to World War II.