Vanja Drach

AKA: Ваня Драч, Ваня Драх, Vanja Drah
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1932-02-01

Bošnjaci, Croatia, Yugoslavia

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {57}

1963-01-01 0

The Wedding of Mr. Marzipan

A satire on the false happiness provided by consumer goods and bourgeois rituals done in an eye-poppingly gorgeous, extremely artificial style that ingeniously mixes colour with black and white, and c ...
Genre :Drama

1978-01-01 0

Bombing Process

In 1928 young Communist activist was arrested and put on trial for anti-state activity. Years later he became known as Tito, Communist president of Yugoslavia, and this TV-movie was made for the 50th ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Penzioner

2003-07-20 6.5

Witnesses

Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning insi ...
Genre :Drama, War

Matko

2010-03-10 4.571

Just Between Us

Nikola is a man who knows how to really enjoy life; he's even able to rouse sympathy for his sinful ways. His brother turns a blind eye to his philandering although, with a broken marriage behind him, ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Mark Twain

1980-02-19 6.2

The Secret of Nikola Tesla

Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day. ...
Genre :Drama

Kukec

1981-07-02 5.8

Southbound Train

A power-cut in a great apartment building brings the tenants together. ...
Genre :Drama

Krešo

1958-07-15 7.4

H-8...

A bus traveling from Belgrade to Zagreb is involved in a tragic accident when a reckless driver causes a catastrophic collision on a rainy night, leading to the tragic deaths of several passengers. ...
Genre :Drama

1992-01-01 4.5

Mor

Sue, the only daughter of a squire comes back from a fashionable European resort where she spent vacation. Arno, an impoverished nobleman wins her heart and they soon get engaged. But in the farm is t ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, TV Movie

Profesor Rudolf

2003-07-22 5.2

Infection

In a fictional Central European country democracy and freedom are only illusion, because behind polished surface there's many cases of murders and manipulations with the people. Police and city author ...
Genre :Horror

Luda

1961-05-28 6.2

The Emperor's New Clothes

The adaptation of Hans Cristian Andersen's tale filmed on a white background. It is also the first Croatian movie in color. ...
Genre :Fantasy

Diplomat

1966-07-12 6.4

The Seventh Continent

A group of children discover the new continent of the world, uninhabited by adults. Soon, many other children are joining them in that new paradise, leaving their parents and other adults baffled on a ...
Genre :Family

Ivan

1985-11-07 5.8

Three for Happiness

A pretty factory girl falls for an ex con. He's still in love with his ex wife. Love triangle soon becomes even larger. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

1981-01-26 0

The Life and Times of August Šenoa

Life and times of August Šenoa, popular Croatian novelist who was one of the most influential writers in 19th Century. The movie was made for the 100th anniversary of his death. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Relja

1992-01-01 7.2

The Golden Years

The crash of student strike, also the crash of "Croatian Spring" in December of 1971, causes a violent separation of its three participants: A member of student leaders Jakov, his brother Mislav and J ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Fara

2006-12-01 6.2

All for Free

A 30 year old, carefree man who lives off his parents' inheritance is untouched by war that affected most of his friends, but only until one of his friends died. This throws him completely off his rou ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Thriller

Njemac

1976-12-27 0

Jagosh and Blacky

Jagoš is a former immigrant worker, and the plot depicts his trial for hitting an acquaintance with a bottle in a pub. During the trial, Jagoš recounts his time as an immigrant worker in Germany and F ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Kočničar Jura

1964-01-01 7

The Sunrise

Having learned of the love affair between his wife and his colleague, a train driver finds himself in a dilemma: only one move is enough to kill his opponent in a train accident that they've found the ...
Genre :Drama

Saro

2006-07-01 5.2

Libertas

The film is set in mid-16th century, at a time when the entire eastern Mediterranean is dominated by two great empires, the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, with the small but wealthy mariti ...
Genre :Drama

Branko

1967-07-11 7

Illusion

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

Recepcioner

1965-07-09 7

The Key

Segment "Duga ulica" (A Long Street): A young man named Boris and a girl, Vera, live in the same neighborhood. They meet one night when she loses her key. Boris invites her to spend the night at his p ...
Genre :Drama

Podvornik u vlaku

1961-07-10 6.3

Adventure at the Door

Story of the dream of a lonely woman lying mentally ill in a sanatorium. ...
Genre :Drama

1999-01-01 5

Madonna

In a small Croatian village in 1991, a carpenter Kuzma falls for much younger Ana. In spite of their surroundings' opposition towards their relationship, the couple marries and Ana gives birth to thei ...
Genre :Drama

Maks

1969-01-01 5

When You Hear the Bells

Partizan commisar, a Communist intellectual from Zagreb, must bring the group of Serb partizans in line. ...
Genre :War

1967-07-17 5

Black Birds

WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Fok

1979-07-03 3

Slow Motion

A 40 year old former football star and idol of his generation feels that there's a gap between him and the rest of his peers. In order to cross divides over, he makes 20th anniversary party for his sc ...
Genre :Drama

Kos

1960-07-07 0

Operation

Psychological action drama about a group of partisans, ambushed by the enemy. ...
Genre :War

Direktor

1981-02-23 5.7

High Voltage

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 the ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Majin otac

2008-07-22 5.7

Behind the Glass

Through a period of five days, the story follows intertwined characters who live in false serenity and rather chaotic general order. ...
Genre :Drama

SS Major

1975-01-01 6.2

Doctor Mladen

The story begins in 1941 and shows one of the people who which were actually, very brave and proudly fought against the Ustasha, Germans and other butchers, not related to that ideology was tied. The ...
Genre :Drama, War

1990-02-22 0

I Wish I Were a Pigeon

The story of German minority members who, after escaping from Wehrmacht, form a partisan unit named "Ernst Thalmann" in eastern Croatia. The focus is a family whose members fight on different sides of ...
Genre :War, Drama

Kolega

1959-07-18 8.5

Three Quarters of the Sun

A story of a group of men at a small frontier railway station who have been released from German concentration camps and are on their way home. ...
Genre :Drama

Koh

1962-10-14 0

A Minute for Murder

An emigrant returning after many years, is killed while trying to clear his name of treason. Investigation produces several skeletons. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Glumac - Cyrano

1985-06-27 5

Premeditated Love Letters

Musicologist and professor Kosor wakes up in a hospital. He has survived a serious car accident. In a bed next to his lies the amiable economist Gajski, whose wife Melita regularly visits him. This un ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1973-01-01 0

Timon

A theater premiere of Timon of Athens ends with a rapturous applause from the audience, and Boris, the lead actor (Boris Buzančić), is congratulated for having played the role of his lifetime. Encoura ...
Genre :Drama

Franjo Grgec

1977-06-27 5

A Shot

In a village of heterogeneous ethnic composition (populated by Serbs and Croats), the local hunter gets wounded by an accidental shot which stirs up passion among the two communities. ...
Genre :Drama

1979-06-25 7

The Four Seasons

The film is an omnibus consisting of three stories - "Usvojenje", "Ferije" and "Probni rok". We follow fragments of the lives of young girls from a social institution for children and young adults wit ...
Genre :Drama

Johan

1963-02-13 5.5

The Dangerous Journey

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. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Ognjenov prijatelj

1965-07-09 7

Back of the Medal

A tense detective movie about Eva Ružić, an accountant in a large firm, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for embezzlement of public property. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

Schlosinger

1991-04-11 4.3

Charuga

This film is based on the true story about Jovan Stanisavljevic alias Charuga, the bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia, Croatia. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Drama

1999-01-01 0

Garcia

Dramatic story of a returnee from Argentina who tries to find answers to the unfortunate events from the past. ...
Genre :Drama

Major

2002-07-22 0

Serafin, the Lighthouse Keeper's Son

Growing up on an isolated island off the coast of Croatia during the reign of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, young Serafin Skoko's formative years were as repressive as they were lonely. ...
Genre :Drama

Sudac

1986-03-20 6.3

Promised Land

Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by which they will be left without the land that they ...
Genre :Drama

Urednik

1991-01-01 5

Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing

A young man is determined to find out what happened to his grandfather who was arrested and then disappeared in WW2, why did the new communist government label their family as traitors and why was his ...
Genre :Drama

Dekan Akademije

1982-06-30 0

Endeavor

A story about a painter, an unconventional university professor, who has to deal with being haunted by his trouble past during the 2nd World War, while at the same time trying to cope with his univers ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1996-01-01 0

Basketball Mozart

Film is about one of all time best basketball player from Europe - Drazen Petrovic, who after successful career in European league played in the NBA. He died in 1993 in a car accident in Germany. ...
Genre :Documentary

Glas (voice)

1983-01-01 0

Resting Room

By using the motifs of Krleza's play "Adam and Eve", written in 1922, director Tomislav Radic questions a similar pattern of male-female relations in a trivial, contemporary context. With Krleza's lin ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

1985-09-30 0

Ether

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 release ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

1969-04-21 0

The Scar

The drama questions what would happen in private and professional terms to a man who would start telling his friends and work colleagues everything he really thinks. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Direktor

1976-11-22 0

The Loner

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 ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Lenić

1988-10-30 0

Canary's Lover

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 cen ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

1969-06-01 0

To Live

An unknown traveler disembarks from a steamship on a rainy day in a small and deserted coastal town, where he will spend the night and find a girl who will remain in his heart forever. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Major Von Richter

1989-01-01 5.3

That Summer of White Roses

In the summer of 1944, in a peaceful resort town in the Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, an easy-going lifeguard takes in a widow of a partisan and her young son. Their relationship grows until he unknowingl ...
Genre :Drama

1962-12-31 0

Telephone

A man is bothered by a ringing telephone, and is followed by it until it takes a drastic turn. ...
Genre :Drama

Učitelj

1974-02-17 8.3

In the Registrar's Office

Based on the Ante Kovačić's novel "U registraturi" (In the Registrar's Office, 1888.) Tells the story of Ivica Kicmanovic – from his childhood to his eventual downfall caused by a femme fatale Laura. ...
Genre :Drama

Pripovjedač (voice)

0

Traps

The series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948. ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Penzioner

0

Witnesses

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 an ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Doktor Bitte

1975-11-30 8.3

The Bonfires of Kapela

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. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, War & Politics