Dragan Sučić

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 anniversary of those events.

It’s the winter of 1942. A freight train on the section of the Slavonian railway Vinkovci-Nova Gradiska is under a special Gestapo escort. Fleeing misfortune and evil brought by war, the last wagon is the place of encounter of politicians, war smugglers, deserters and tamburitza players.

During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.

A projection of the situation in monarchist Yugoslavia after the infamous Proclamation and the Law on the Protection of the State, when repression and police violence stifled any progressive idea. Inspired by some literary works of Miroslav Krleza.

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 to get an apartment within “social ownership” for years.

The film was created based on the stories of Marino Zurl, head of humanitarian action of the weekly Arena newspapers, who from 1963 to 1971 was looking for the next of kin of children separated from their parents during World War II and taken to camps and shelters. Many of them later grew up in orphanages or foster families, like the three main characters of this film, Ana (Biserka Ipša), Nenad (Mustafa Nadarević) and Toma (Božidar Orešković). Each of them relates in a different way to the past and the possibility that, as young accomplished adults, they can finally solve the secret of their identity and meet members of their real families.

The plot takes place in Croatia during and immediately after the April war in 1941. The protagonists are a group of soldiers of the Royal Yugoslav Army of Croatian nationality, some of whom will join the Ustashas and the newly founded NDH after the war, and some the anti-fascist movement.

A drama in one act by the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža, published in 1914. The plot takes place during one carnival night when three masked protagonists – a husband dressed as Don Quixote, his wife dressed as Colombina from commedia dell’arte and her lover Pierrot – observe their relations.