Videoteca

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Carnival, Angel and Dust 1990
Three stories from the Mediterranean region that deal with feelings of loneliness, disappointment and transience, and efforts to overcome them.

A Man Who Liked Funerals 1989 star_border 5
Filip lives in the small town of Samobor, which is near Zagreb. He works in the local library as a librarian. Even though he moved to the small town many years ago, he still misses the bustle of life in Zagreb. However, his boring routine is interrupted by the arrival of a new library manager, the pretty Elza. Soon, however, a series of strange deaths happen.

The Hole 1989 star_border 8
Two neighbors quarrel through the hole in the wall which connects their bedrooms.

Tender Infidelities 1988
A 1988 Serbo-Croatian language drama film written and directed by Dario Vince, starring Relja Bašić, Bozidar Boban and Ana Karić.

Canary's Lover 1988
The story retrospectively returns to the past of the noble Lenić Remetinski family through the stories of the last descendant, old woman Amalija. The novella talks about a frequent subject of 19th century prose, which is the decline of the nobility during the industrial revolution.

The Glembays 1988 star_border 7.3
The Glembays of Zagreb are a rich family cursed with tragedies and haunted by sinister past. Leone Glembay, a rebelious son of the family patriarch, is becoming disgusted with hypocrisy, perversion and crime that runs in the family.

The Life of Stipe Zvonarov 1988
After Stipe Zvonarov returned from the Austro-Hungarian army to his Slavic village, he found his wife Mara and mother. Women rightly expect Stipe to accept rural jobs, but he can no longer accept the monotony and restrictions of rural life.

Ciao, Ciao Bambina 1988
A monotonous life of a timid clerk from Zagreb takes an unexpected turn when an easygoing slacker from Bosnia deliberately moves into his apartment.

When Birds Sing 1988
In northern Croatia, a typical problem pops out during the engagement between two neighbors, a widower and a pregnant woman.

The White Deer 1988
Puppet story of a little goose-girl Anka, who grew up among wild forest animals.

The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh 1988
Television adaptation of the play "The Ballad of Petrica Kerempuh", based on the famous collection of Kajkavian songs by Miroslav Krleža.

The Drinking Bout 1987
A young family from the province moves into the ground floor of a quiet building in Zagreb and with their lifestyle and behavior disrupts the idyllic atmosphere that reigned in that neighborhood until then. All attempts by the natives to bring them into order are unsuccessful, so they hatch a conspiracy. But their revenge will have serious consequences...

The Silk, the Shears 1987
Based on the memoirs of Irena Vrkljan. Through reminiscences of Mala and her sisters, we meet her family and her contemporary intellectual elite.

Mariska Band 1986
The musical band Mariška band conquered the audience during the eighties. This documentary describes the life of Mariška Holoubek (1904-1993) from Koprivnica, a versatile self-taught musician who played several instruments, and gained her greatest popularity as the violinist of the music group Mariška Band, which she founded at the age of 76. The group that played hits, country and Podravina folk music, despite its great popularity and numerous concert and television appearances, never recorded a record...

Ether 1985
The story follows two journalists from Zagreb who go to a Pannonian town to report on wild radio stations. There they discover an unusual radio station that broadcasts news that is not usually released to the public. As they are collecting information about it, they get drawn into local affairs more than they hoped and wanted.

Nobody Will Laugh 1985
A young professor of art history is pressed by communist superiors to write a positive review to an amateur scholar. He plays with an old man as well as with a young worker girl until he realizes he has lost everything.

Horvat's Choice 1985 star_border 5
It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy of the imperial goverment.

The Bewitched Jacket 1984
A man discovers huge amounts of money popping up in the pockets of his jacket.

Kvit posla 1983
After 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.

The Third Key 1983 star_border 5.8
A young couple have settled in a new flat. Soon somebody begins watching them and they receive great amounts of money from an unknown sender.

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Journey to Vucjak 1986 star_border 7
With WWI finally ending in 1918, Croatian journalist Kresimir Horvat travels from Zagreb to his village of Vucjak in Zagorje and becomes a witness of history as Austria-Hungarian Empire dissolves.

Highlands 1985
Ignored by the stories of the hawks and their weapons, little Tugomil can not resist the desire to shoot from the shotgun shot by his father Tomo. The boy will realize that he was flawed only when the old Martin was surrounded by gendarmes.

Inspector Vinko 1984
Inspector Vinko is a comedy miniseries starring Ivica Vidović, Zoja Odak and Mustafa Nadarević.

Beggars and Sons 1984 star_border 8
Story about Matan, professional beggar, smuggler, and trickster, his childhood and adult adventures with his family. It is shown as retrospective, while Matan is hiding from the authorities in the mental institution.

You're Lying, Melita 1983
"You're lying, Melita" is a Croatian television miniseries from 1983. about a little girl who thinks there's nothing wrong with choosing not to tell the truth. Based on a short novel by Ivan Kušan.

Smoggies 1982 star_border 4.7
The adventures of a numerous family Vragec, who live in a suburban settlement "Naselak" in Croatia's capital Zagreb.

Unconquered City 1982
In April 1941 Germans occupied Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, and installed a Quisling government. This series, partly based on true events and persons and partly on fiction, covers the activities of the Resistance movement, led by Communists.

Baby Deer 1981 star_border 7.5
A group of kids saves a baby deer from the woods and then they take care of it until it grows up. Original title: JELENKO

The Big Town 1980 star_border 8.8
This series, mostly humorous, yet epic in proportions, chronicles the city of Split in turbulent times between 1910 and 1947. Although the story has numerous subplots and dozens of different characters, the main accent is given to "Hajduk", world-famous soccer club and its founders.

Devil's Due 1979
During WW2, a young student of medicine comes to the big city to discover the secret of death, and stays at a motel that turns out to be a brothel. He is asked from Ustasha officer to perform experiments of resurrecting the dead, while the Fascist authorities look for a female communist hiding in the city.

Cat Under a Helmet 1978
A tragicomic tale of lumberjack who joined the partisans during WW2. As a corporal, he successfully and courageously fulfilled the combat tasks with his partisan battalion. The commander sends him on a special assignment.

Nikola Tesla 1977 star_border 10
This series follows Tesla's life from his childhood in Simljan (near Gospic) in nowadays Croatia (then Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, part of Austria-Hungary) to his death in New York, USA.

The Bonfires of Kapela 1975 star_border 8.3
Based on an eponymous novel by Veljko Kovačević. the series is focused on historical events and personalities from the uprisings in Gorski Kotar and the Croatian Littoral in the Second World War.

People from Gruntovec 1975
The story of this cult Croatian miniseries is set in a remote Podravina village and revolves around a peasant Dudek and his wife Regica, whose troubles ensue from his honest and naive nature, since his fellow villagers take advantage of him to the greatest extent.

Where the Wild Boars Go 1971 star_border 8.5
It happens around Zagreb in 1941-1943, during World War II. Two groups of smugglers led by Crni Rok and Veriga, fight for supremacy on the black market. They also have to deal with the Germans, Ustashas, the police and communist illegals.

The Borderers 1970 star_border 7
The comic adventures of the residents of a village in Podravina region in Croatia.

The Man Himself 1970
An 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.

Our Little Town 1970 star_border 8.7
A life in a small coastal town in Dalmatia, Croatia, seen through the prism of the local chronicler-amateur and his writings, during the periods before and after WW2.

The Foreigner Release date not available star_border 10
Apart from the fact that he feels neither as a citizen nor as a peasant, nothing binds the main protagonist to his place of birth in this typical Simunovic work about homo duplex, deeply contaminated with a feeling of pain.

Traps Release date not available
The series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.

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