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Vatroslav Mimica

Vatroslav Mimica

Directing

Biography

Vatroslav Mimica (25 June 1923 – 15 February 2020) was a Croatian film director and screenwriter. Born in Omiš, Mimica had enrolled at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine before the outbreak of World War II. In 1942 he joined Young Communist League of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) and in 1943 he went on to join the Yugoslav Partisans, becoming a member of their medical units. After the war Mimica wrote literary and film reviews, and his career in filmmaking began in 1950 when he became the director of the Jadran Film production studio.

Known For

Monday or Tuesday
6.5

A divorced journalist Marko Požgaj starts his working day by taking his son to the school. During the day many thoughts and images pass through his mind - the memories of childhood, ex-wife, current girlfriend, but mostly his father who died in a war.

Monday or Tuesday

1966
The Falcon
5.0

Banović Strahinja takes place during the middle ages in Serbia. While estate owner Strahinja is hunting, a Turkish bandit, Alija, attacks his castle. The Turks kill his servants and kidnap his beloved Andja. When he discovers what has happened, Strahinja gathers a together a group of scoundrels and chases the bandits.

The Falcon

1983
The Macedonian Part of Hell
5.7

At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the persecutions and the acts of violence on civil population.

The Macedonian Part of Hell

1971
Suleiman the Conqueror
9.0

Historical film, telling the story of Turkish Sultan Suleiman's attempts to conquer Vienna. The advance of his army was checked on Yugoslav territory.

Suleiman the Conqueror

1961
Anno Domini 1573
6.3

Europe in second half of 16th century was very rough place to live. Peasants of Slovenia and Croatia had even rougher times because of the constant threat of Turk raids and being taxed to death in order to provide defence against the Turks. But, the worst things were arrogant local feudal lords led by Franjo Tahi who were oppresing the common folk. All that led to the great peasant revolt of 1573. The movie is made for the 400th anniversary of the event.

Anno Domini 1573

1975
No image
6.3

A 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 threw a party instead of mourning, looking forward to his big inheritance.

The Jubilee of Mr Ikel

1955
Alone
5.7

Harassed by the day, he runs away in the evening from people and town. He crawls into his little room to sleep. The dream is bringing him the limitless and quiet spaces of solitude. At last, he is alone and free. But the solitude engenders the fear.

Alone

1958
The Last Mission of Demolitions Man Cloud
5.8

The Spanish Civil War veteran and WW2 partisan Josip Crnković-Cloud faces eviction from his modest little house which is to be demolished soon to make space for new skyscraper. He tries to stop it in a legal way, but fails to break the shield of administrative bureaucreacy. He decides to use dynamite left from the war and simply blow out the house.

The Last Mission of Demolitions Man Cloud

1978
Kaya
7.1

An experimental film about a peaceful and carefree life in a small Dalmatian town, which turns into bloodshed and horror on the eve of the Italian occupation of the country.

Kaya

1967
The Fed One
6.2

Group of concentration camp prisoners is being constantly tortured by their Kappo. Since they are too weak to stand against him, they pick the strongest among themselves and feed him with parts of their rations.

The Fed One

1970
On the Meadow
8.0

Two men on the meadow fight for one flower.

On the Meadow

1957
Pula Confidential
N/A

A documentary about the history of Yugoslavian Film Festival in Pula and ex-Yu cinema in general. Many legends of ex-Yu cinema were interviewed here.

Pula Confidential

2003
The Beauty of the Adriatic
N/A

The Beauty of the Adriatic was created as a promotional tourist film, but through its unusual and even bizarre formal devices it overcomes the promotional function. The narrator of the film is constantly communicating with the viewer, exclaims and inserts jokes, and we also see him in the film as a guide entertaining us with various gestures and movements. In the film there are also interspersed humorous animated scenes, an interview with Hamlet, poetic sequences and stylized scenes such as one where the camera is "looking for" the lost guide.

The Beauty of the Adriatic

1962
The Fly
5.8

A man is standing in the scene when a fly arrives and begins to irritate him. He tries to swat the fly, but it keeps growing bigger to the point where it shatters the scene. Eventually, the man and the fly decide to negotiate.

The Fly

1967
An All-Round Help
N/A

Robot Minus serves Doctor Sinus, its creator and constructor, who works at a desk. However, a magnetic horseshoe gets into the robot’s mechanism and disrupts its functioning. Dr. Sinus first tries to tame the Robot, then breaks it, but it’s all in vain.

An All-Round Help

1959
Prometheus from the Island of Viševica
6.5

A middle-aged manager of a big-scale company pays visit to his native island with his wife, in order to attend ceremony of unveiling a memorial plaque dedicated to local partisan heroes. During his visit, he's constantly overwhelmed by the memories from the past, his first love, the combat days and his enthusiasm to introduce electricity on the island, which was not appreciated by his fellow islanders.

Prometheus from the Island of Viševica

1964
Scarecrow
8.0

The lone scarecrow has a great desire to befriend birds, but they ignore him. His courage at a certain point completely changed the bird's perspective.

Scarecrow

1957
No image
9.0

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 combines live action with animation and even bits of puppetry!

The Wedding of Mr. Marzipan

1963
In the Storm
7.4

Rose 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 things get tough for the couple.

In the Storm

1952
An Event
6.7

A grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner, Matijevic, follow them as they return home in order to rob them. The confrontation takes place in the forest.

An Event

1969