A Croatian thriller, a whodunit with elements of film noir
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Birthday party for Radovan Orlak is interrupted when his friends hear the news of his suicide. Four of them start their own investigation and decide to punish all people that could have been responsible for his death.Read More »
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A three-part omnibus consisting of Kino Klub amateurs’ work: Zivojin Pavlovic’s dialogue-free “Live Waters” set in 1943, Marko Babac’s “Warriors” about psychological look at the two patients in a hospital room, as well as Kokan Rakonjac’s “Raindrops” about alcoholic’s decaying relationship with his girlfriend.Read More »
synopsis
The film follows the events of the 1972 outbreak of smallpox in Yugoslavia, and the subsequent quarantine at Belgrade’s General Hospital. The film opens with a Kosovar pilgrim from Belgrade in the Middle East. He is in a bazaar, and buys a flute from a man who is visibly ill. Upon his return to Belgrade he becomes ill and is transported to the city’s General Hospital. His disease is initially misdiagnosed, and the smallpox virus (variola vera) quickly spreads through the hospital. Once the disease is correctly identified, the authorities attempt to control the outbreak by declaring martial law, enforcing quarantine, and enlisting the help of the World Health Organisation.Read More »
A story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all costs, but it wouldn’t be much easier for them even after the liberation day.Read More »
A lonely man struggles to find the money for his ill sister’s treatment while at the same time trying to escape his past and to make sense of the present.Read More »
A story set in a Slovenian village during Italian occupation. Stefuc, a man who has been widowed twice and has four daughters, wants to get married for the third time with Zana, who’s already engaged and pregnant with Ludvik. Stefuc tries to separate them away, but realizes that he’ll have to marry Hedvika, a nice looking girl who has just returned from Milan. In the meantime, Italian fascist authorities decide to eradicate five Slovenian songs with the help of local traitors.Read More »
Extremely rare and interesting Croatian movie about the history of the city of Zadar from 1918-1943.
A brief historical background:
After Napoleonic Wars and controversial Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) , Zadar was a capitol city of Austro-Hungarian Empire’s province Kingdom Of Dalmatia from 1815-1918.
Based on a a secret pact between the Triple Entente and Italy, signed in London on 26 April 1915, and known as Treaty of London (1915), Kingdom of Italy claimed large parts of former Austro-Hungarian Empire after the end of WW I. Finally, after the Treaty of Rapallo (1920), large parts of territories inhabited with 480.000 Croats and Slovenians were given to Italy.Read More »
Temnikar’s family prepares for the Christmas, but to him, it’s the time of dark premonitions and anxiety. In the mountain cave, hidden by snow, the wounded partisans are hiding, and Temnikar suspects the treason. Once the White Guard patrol shows up at Temnikar’s doorstep, he finds out about their plan to go and finish off the wounded partisans.Read More »
