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The Last Roman God
Through both personal and political conflicts, the film tells the story of emperor Diocletian's rise to power and his complicated place in ancient Rome's court politics.
The Paper
The last independent newsroom in the country is taken over by a construction magnate for the reasons that have nothing to do with love or respect for journalism.
The Visit
4 different stories, 4 episodes per story, so many familiar actors from Serbia and region. Visit (in jail) is connecton between stories and each story is finished at the end od fourth episode.
Journey to Vucjak
With WWI finally ending in 1918, Croatian journalist Kresimir Horvat travels from Zagreb to his village of Vucjak in Zagorje and becomes a witness of history as Austria-Hungarian Empire dissolves.
The Seventh Cronicle
In the mid-1950s, an unnamed convict succsesfully manages to escape from the Goli Otok prison island, seeking shelter in a monastery on the nearby island of Rab and striking a kinship with one of the nuns in it. A few days later, an agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service arrives on the island, desperate to find the man's whereabouts. The nuns and the monks face a decision of their lifetime. Are they going to turn the wounded man they know nothing about to the authorities, or will they continue concealing him and risk their lives in the process?
Slow Surrender
When Petar's marriage and family life fall apart due to his innability to separate professional and personal life, he decides to take a journey of self-discovery and takes on a job of driving a van full of humanitarian aid from Zagreb to Dubrovnik, meeting two people who will change his life forever.
King Tomislav
Tomislav the First of the Croatian Trpimirović dynasty is a figure shrouded in mystery. Was he really Croatia's first king? Was his army as powerful, feared and strong in numbers as Byzantine sources from the time claim? How did he manage to unite continental Croatia and the coastal cities in Dalmatia? How big was his kingdom? And which parts of his story are fact and which are fiction?
Grandma Bijela
Old woman was taken by her son to live in the big city. She finds adapting difficult and longs for return home.
Dead Fish
Twenty years after the conclusion of the Croat-Bosniak War, the two ethnic groups still live in fierce conflict, which is only increased by the recent suicide of a war veteran.
The Horseman
In the mid-18th century, the modern day border between Bosnia and Croatia, wasn't just a border between two countries. It was a border between two political powers,The Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire, and their respective religions, Christianity and Islam. But, in the midst of that passionate conflict between the East and the West, a romance blossoms between Ivan Revač, a young Croatian assasin working for a local aristocrat, and Leyla, the daughter of an Ottoman bey.
The Age of Uskoks
Feature documentary film on the phenomenon of Uskoks of Senj, legendary corsairs and anti-Osman soldiers from 16th and 17th century.
Pusca Bistra
After a series of unfortunate events, TV subscription collector Pero falls into a deep emotional crisis from which he cannot escape. His only goal is - spiritual peace and, if possible - revenge, deciding to blackmail the denizens of the small village of Pušća Bistra, seeing them as the sole culprits for his misfortune.
Grunts of Intellectual Sows of Europe Today
Based on Krleza’s essay written in 1935 which warned about the rise of fascism and Nazism in pre-WWII Europe.
Rest in Peace
When journalist Lucija Car is sent to report on the demolition of Croatia’s oldest prison, she stumbles across a graveyard of unclaimed bodies and senses that there are more secrets to be unearthed. An absorbing crime thriller that interweaves the story of each newly discovered victim with Croatia’s dark political history.