An Overview of Croatian Movies 1944 - 2013
This is a list of feature movies created by Croatian authors or movie companies since the year 1944 until December of the year 2013.
During the existence of SFRY in period 1945-1991, Yugoslav cinematography wasn't strictly separated by the state republics, therefore it was possible that authors and actors from one republic made movies for movie companies from other republics. Per example, leading actors for Croatian movie "Breza" were from Serbia (Velimir Bata Živojinović) and Slovenia (Manca Košir). One of most famous Serbian story of Serbian hero Banović Strahinja was put to the screen by Croatian movie company and Croatian director. There are many similar examples. Therefore, it's sometimes unclear at the first sight which movie was part of which national cinematography.
This list has no intention to rate movies. It's simply a brief overview and reminder of Croatian movies created during last 70 years.
During the existence of SFRY in period 1945-1991, Yugoslav cinematography wasn't strictly separated by the state republics, therefore it was possible that authors and actors from one republic made movies for movie companies from other republics. Per example, leading actors for Croatian movie "Breza" were from Serbia (Velimir Bata Živojinović) and Slovenia (Manca Košir). One of most famous Serbian story of Serbian hero Banović Strahinja was put to the screen by Croatian movie company and Croatian director. There are many similar examples. Therefore, it's sometimes unclear at the first sight which movie was part of which national cinematography.
This list has no intention to rate movies. It's simply a brief overview and reminder of Croatian movies created during last 70 years.
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- DirectorOktavijan MileticStarsBranko SpoljarLidija DominkovicSena JurinacBiography of Vatroslav Lisinski, 19th century Croatian composer and the author of the first Croatian opera.
- DirectorVjekoslav AfricStarsDubravko DujsinMilica-Carka JovanovicIrena KolesarSlavica, Marin and a group of operants hide the newly built ship from the Italian occupation forces. They end up arrested, but the partisans rescue them and they take part in the string of actions.
- DirectorNikola PopovicStarsVera Ilic-DjukicFran NovakovicMilica-Carka JovanovicThe uprising against fascists in West Bosnia starts with enthusiasm, and local folks help partisans in every possible way. A village girl of Serbian ethnicity joins the resistance movement, and falls in love with the partisan commissar Ivan, an ethnic Croat who has been an expert in destroying railway tracks.
- DirectorVjekoslav AfricStarsDragomir FelbaVladimir MedarNada MladjenovicUncle Zvane is assigned by the underground People's Committee of a village to deliver a number of oxes to the Partisans in the Gorski Kotar Mountains. The story tells how the old man overcomes the difficulties, and succeeds.
- DirectorBranko MarjanovicStarsSonja KastlMarijan LovricJoza GregorinStory about famous ballet dancer Marija who was horrified by the terror of Ustasha regime, and joined the partisans.
- DirectorKresimir GolikStarsIrena KolesarJugoslav NalisAntun NalisFabris, a center-forward and the key player of the harbor town's football team, is a selfish individualist who is believed that he's irreplaceable in the first squad. He's also a womanizer who tries to seduce pretty Nena, a member of the working's committee and successful swimmer. However, she's emotionally close to Zdravko, who is, same like Fabris, a worthy center-forward himself.
- DirectorFedor HanzekovicStarsMisa MirkovicMilan AjvazJosip PetricicA young man's fight between love and the monastic discipline.
- DirectorBranko MarjanovicStarsLjubomir DidicAugust CilicViktor BekIvan Ivanovic, a party functionary, arrives in a provincial town as a temporary replacement for a cultural official. The newcomer is fanatically eager to reform the town's cultural life in accordance with socialist ideals. He abolishes all five music societies and orders a monument of the town's most revered native, late composer Ciguli Miguli, removed from the main square. Ivanovic's actions, however, meet stiff resistance from the townspeople, especially the youth.
- DirectorVjekoslav AfricStarsDorotea MatulicJoza GregorinMarijan LovricThe council of an old Slavic tribe makes unrighteous decision by giving the best looking girl Voljenka to Kohan the warrior. Voljenka is in love with Dalibor, who tries to prove his courage by fighting with Kohan, and therefore drive the council to change their original decision.
- DirectorVatroslav MimicaStarsMia OremovicDragica MalicDragomir FelbaRose is a young woman who lost her husband in WW2, leaving her and their daughter behind. She gets close with his good-natured brother Drago. However, an unscrupulous smuggler Vincenzo is always around him, and the things get tough for the couple.
- DirectorSime SimatovicStarsIrena KolesarMarko SoljacicBoris TesijaThe year is 1940, Croatian coast, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Jakov, a poor peasant from hinterland, and his daughter Mala, go to the city, trying to find a job to repay a debt...
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsSuad RizvanbegovicTihomir PolanecDarko SlivnjakA young boy, Ive, and his friends set sail on the sea in order to try and repay his father's debts. They name their boat "Sinji galeb". Soon, the pirate Lorenco and his gang notice the children on their boat.
- DirectorBranko BelanStarsNada SkrinjarMiroslav PetrovicSonja SagovacThe story about piano that changes many owners through the decades, now in the possession of girl who tries to master the instrument.
- DirectorKresimir GolikStarsTamara MileticLjuba TadicMiodrag Popovic-DebaSmilja is a little girl living in Dalmatian Zagora. One day, her mother dies under a small oak tree and she is left without parents. Luckily, she gets adopted and continues to nurture the oak where her mother died. Many years later, Smilja is a handsome woman, but her jealous stepbrother Josip kills her boyfriend Ivan and rapes her. Ivan's brothers swear revenge.
- DirectorVatroslav MimicaStarsAntun NalisBorivoj SemberaLila AndresA man wakes up in his grave and realizes that he's been buried alive. He gets up and arrives home only to find out that his wife and relatives throw up a party instead of function, looking forward to his big inheritance.
- DirectorKresimir GolikAndrej HiengStarsLojze PotokarStevo ZigonJure DolezalThere are two stories in this movie. One treats the human side, the things happening to a man in a war, the pain and pressure on his nerves and courage and how he copes with everything in order for him to survive and not lose his sanity. The other story deals with the animal side, the things happening to a dog who gradually loses everything he knew and loved and is even faced with a threat to its existence itself. To survive the dog has to forget everything it was taught and hold dear, fear the man and its tricks and become wild and free again.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsMetka GabrijelcicVladimir BacicRelja BasicThree children, two brothers and their friend, win a lottery ticket at sports forecasting. Upon deciding not to tell their parents in order to buy a ship, two criminals find out about this and try to steal their money.
- DirectorBranko BauerBranko Bauer's documentary film from 1955.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsBert SotlarLila AndresZlatko LukmanA partisan comes secretly to town to find about what happened to his little son who barely remembers him. He is horrified when he finds out that his son is raised in a colaborators' orphanage, brought up to hate communists and partisans. He decides to take his son to the freed territory with him, but will he manage to escape the police checkings?
- DirectorBranko MarjanovicStarsGoranka VrusBoris BuzancicJurica DijakovicA group of partisans is under siege, surrounded by strong German forces. Some of them remember the events that preceded the siege. This is an omnibus of three intertwined stories.
- DirectorBranko BelanStarsMilorad MargeticTamara MileticMirko VojkovicMan escapes from an Italian camp and returns to his island in occupied Dalmatia only to find himself victim of a plot denouncing him as an enemy agent.
- DirectorSime SimatovicStarsBratislav GrbicSasa NovakBoris HrzicA group of partisan illegals entangled in a love triangle during Ustasha reign in Nazi-occupied Zagreb.
- DirectorNikola TanhoferStarsBoris BuzancicMira NikolicZlata PerlicSoon after coming to small village, young doctor must fight against strong local superstitions.
- DirectorBranko BauerStarsTamara MileticMilorad MargeticNiksa StefaniniAn one-legged engineer of hydro construction and a war veteran meets a blind girl in a mountain sanatorium of Ophthalmology during winter. She's waiting for a surgery that can restore her eyesight. Soon the two fall in love with each other, but he feels unpleasant because of his handicap she's yet aware of.
- DirectorFedor HanzekovicStarsMarija KohnJulije PerlakiMladen SermentDue to negligence that caused the death of a family cow, an extremely poor but handsome young man Iva must obey his father's demands to marry an unattractive and limping daughter of wealthy villagers.