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Slobodan Trninić
Slobodan Trninić (born 14 January 1953) is a Croatian cinematographer. Trninić graduated from the University of Zagreb Academy of Drama Arts in 1979, and his first feature film was the 1991 Yugoslav film ''Virgina'' ( sh, Virdžina), directed by Serbian director Srđan Karanović. That same year Trninić shot Rajko Grlić's film ''Charuga'', and in 1993 he shot ''The Golden Years (1993 film), The Golden Years'' ( hr, Zlatne godine; directed by Davor Žmegač), a drama for which he won the Golden Arena for Best Cinematography at the 1993 Pula Film Festival, the Croatian national film awards. He continued to work with a number of films in Croatia and abroad, and in 2010 he won his second Golden Arena for his work on ''Just Between Us (film), Just Between Us'' ( hr, Neka ostane među nama; directed by Rajko Grlić). Selected filmography *''Charuga'' (''Čaruga'', 1991; directed by Rajko Grlić) *''Virgina'' (''Virdžina'', 1991; directed by Srđan Karanović Srđan Karanovi� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banja Luka
Banja Luka ( sr-Cyrl, Бања Лука, ) or Banjaluka ( sr-Cyrl, Бањалука, ) is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the largest city of Republika Srpska. Banja Luka is also the ''de facto'' capital of this entity. It is the traditional centre of the densely-forested Bosanska Krajina region of northwestern Bosnia. , the city proper has a population of 138,963, while its administrative area comprises a total of 185,042 inhabitants. The city is home to the University of Banja Luka and University Clinical Center of the Republika Srpska, as well as numerous entity and state institutions for Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina respectively. The city lies on the Vrbas river and is well known in the countries of the former Yugoslavia for being full of tree-lined avenues, boulevards, gardens, and parks. Banja Luka was designated European city of sport in 2018. Name The name ''Banja Luka'' was first mentioned in a document dated to 6 February 149 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Željko Senečić
Željko Senečić (18 January 1933 – 2 January 2018) was a Croatian film and television production designer, film director and screenwriter. Senečić studied painting at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts and scenography at the Zagreb Academy of Drama Arts The Academy of Dramatic Art ( hr, Akademija dramske umjetnosti or ADU) is a Croatian drama school. Since its inception in 1896, the institution grew in prominence resulting in its successful affiliation with the University of Zagreb in 1979, along .... His career in filmmaking and production design began in the early 1960s. His most memorable films include the Palme d'Or and Academy Award-winning '' The Tin Drum'' (''Die Blechtrommel'', 1979; directed by Volker Schlöndorff and partially filmed in Zagreb, with Senečić credited as production co-designer) and classics of Croatian cinema such as '' Rondo'' (1966), '' One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away'' (''Tko pjeva zlo ne misli'', 1970). Senečić won four Golden Arena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsen Anton Ostojić
Arsen Anton Ostojić (born 29 July 1965) is a Croatian film director and screenwriter. He won the Golden Arena for Best Director at the 2008 Pula Film Festival, and was nominated for the European Discovery of the Year award at the 2004 European Film Awards. Filmography *''A Wonderful Night in Split'' (''Ta divna splitska noć'', 2004) *''No One's Son ''No One's Son'' ( hr, Ničiji sin) is a 2008 Croatian film directed by Arsen Anton Ostojić. It is based on a play by Mate Matišić. The film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film at the 2008 Pula Film Festival Pula Film Festival ( hr, Pulski ...'' (''Ničiji sin'', 2008) *'' Halima's Path'' (''Halimin put'', 2012) *Man in the Box (2015), production stage *'' F20'' (2018) References External links * * 1965 births Living people Film people from Split, Croatia Croatian film directors Croatian screenwriters Golden Arena for Best Director winners Vladimir Nazor Award winners {{Croatia-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No One's Son
''No One's Son'' ( hr, Ničiji sin) is a 2008 Croatian film directed by Arsen Anton Ostojić. It is based on a play by Mate Matišić Mate Matišić (born 17 January 1965) is a Croatian playwright, screenwriter, composer and musician. His plays have been staged in Croatian theaters as well as internationally, and some of them have been adapted into feature films. As a composer, .... The film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film at the 2008 Pula Film Festival, the Croatian national film awards. References External links * 2008 films Croatian crime drama films 2000s Croatian-language films Croatian films based on plays Films with screenplays by Mate Matišić Films scored by Mate Matišić {{Croatia-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Hard To Be Nice
''It's Hard to be Nice'' (Original title in Bosnian: ''Teško je biti fin'') is a 2007 Bosnian film by Srđan Vuletić. The movie is about a man who lives in a challenging, post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina where many are forced to create their own destinies. Fudo, a taxi driver who lives in Sarajevo with his wife and a newborn baby, is pressured by his wife to turn his life around from being associated with local and regional mafia. He firmly adheres and acts to change to an honest family man bound by goodness and peace. However, the challenging events that follow bring his family and his life to a severe test. Cast * Saša Petrović as Fudo * Daria Lorenci as Azra *Emir Hadžihafizbegović as Sejo * Senad Bašić as Bato * Aleksandar Seksan as Mrki *Jasna Žalica as Nurse *Izudin Bajrović as Doctor *Damir Savić as Beba *Miraj Grbić as Receptionist Awards and nominations *The Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Actor ( Saša Petrović) - Sarajevo Film Festival - 2007 External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Border Post
''The Border Post'' ( sh, Karaula) is a comedy-drama produced in international cooperation between the countries of the former Yugoslavia and directed by Rajko Grlić. It was released in 2006. Synopsis A Yugoslav People's Army military border post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the late 1980s is thrown into disarray when its commander Safet Pašić discovers he has syphilis which he contracted from a local prostitute. To conceal his infidelity from his wife, he raises the combat readiness with a fabricated story about an imminent Albanian attack to buy time until he can complete the three-week course of penicillin. Although the leave is cancelled for all personnel, Pašić secretly sends his doctor Siniša to transport his things from his home or to the barracks. There, Siniša meets Pašić's wife Mirjana who is tired of her husband's military career. After several meetings they start a passionate affair. Meanwhile, soldiers in the barracks reinforce their positions and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Srđan Vuletić
Srđan Vuletić (born 1971) is a Bosnian filmmaker. Personal life Vuletić was born in Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina and attended school in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the age of eighteen he enrolled the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, dept. of directing, where he directed three plays: Pirandelo's ''The Naked Life'', Ionesco's ''The Leader'' and Buchner's ''Woyczek'', as well as a number of student films and exercises. The 1992-1995 war in Bosnia interrupted his editing of the documentary ''The Orthodox Church''. In the war he joined a hospital crew as a medical technician, an experience that later inspired his film ''I Burnt Legs''. Also, during the war he produced documentary film about eight Sarajevo artists and the exhibition they held during this period and which was later to become the official Bosnian entry to the 45th Venice Biennale. Career Vuletić directed the award-winning film "Hop, Skip, and Jump" (Troskok) in 1999 and his first feature-lengt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer In The Golden Valley
''Summer in the Golden Valley'' ( Bosnian: ''Ljeto u zlatnoj dolini'') is a 2003 Bosnian film by Srđan Vuletić, produced by Ademir Kenović. The movie is about a 16-year-old boy who has to repay his dead father's debt. In order to collect money, his friend and he get involved in Sarajevo's underground crime. Plot At the traditional Muslim funeral service for his father, Fikret Varupa a sixteen-year-old boy from Sarajevo, learns that his father owes money to Hamid, a man he does not even know. The debt is considerable and Hamid does not want it to go to the grave with the body, so the debt automatically passes from the father to the son. Since in Bosnia this way of collecting debts, at a funeral, is considered to be utterly humiliating, it is never, ever applied. Fikret and his entire family become subjects of ridicule. Fikret, who is practically still a child, is decisive to "redeem his father's soul". Wishing to repay his father's debt and to secure the forgiveness, Fikret wand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branko Ivanda
Branko Ivanda (born 25 December 1941) is Croatian film director and screenwriter. Ivanda was born in Split, then under Italian occupation. His father Leo was a high-school professor of Croatian and French language and his mother Dunja a clerk. The family had artistic leanings, as Ivanda's grandfather was an actor in the Croatian National Theatre in Split (HNK), while his uncle-in-law was composer Ivo Tijardović. Ivanda completed the classical gymnasium in his hometown, occasionally playing minor roles in the HNK, but as he preferred directing, he entered the Academy of Dramatic Arts of the University of Zagreb where he graduated. His directing debut was 1969 modernist piece '' Gravitacija ili fantastična mladost činovnika Borisa Horvata''. Following the ban of his documentary about 1971 student demonstrations ''Poezija i revolucija - studentski štrajk 1971'', in the 1970s he focused on television, where he would direct films, dramas, documentary and advertising films for ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horseman (film)
''Konjanik'' ( en, Horseman) is a 2003 Croatian film directed by Branko Ivanda. It is based on Ivan Aralica's 1971 novel of the same name. The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between the regions of Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroads of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam. The film's main character Petar Revač, was played by Nikša Kušelj. Cast *Nikša Kušelj - Petar Revač * Zrinka Cvitešić - Lejla *Goran Grgić - Andrija * Mladen Vulić - Mujaga Lalić * Borko Perić - Ivan Revač - Nikodim * Božidar Orešković - Zapovjednik *Dejan Aćimović - Begović *Gordana Gadžić - Begovića * Dragan Despot - Veliki *Danko Ljuština – Džafer-beg *Zijah Sokolović Zijah Sokolović (born 22 December 1950) is a Bosnian actor, writer and director. He is the director of ''Theaterland'' in Salzb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mladen Juran
Mladen Juran (born 8 May 1942) is a Croatian film director, screenwriter and actor - the author with the nominations for the Main Film Prize in Latin America and the Best European Fantastic Film, Oscar Academy Awards Candidate - films thematic related to roots and emigration, rebellion - an individual in the whirlpool of unfavorable and surreal social events, organized crime, love, loneliness, fate, the existential measure of everyone’s life, whether that life in monumental, ordinary, null or simply human - with debuting in French cinema, recorded in "Histoire du cinéma français 1966-1970", on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of French cinema. Early life Juran was born in Zagreb. He graduated from high school in Split, Croatia, Split in 1960. After obtaining a diploma from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb in 1964, he went to Paris, where he graduated in 1968 from the Dramatic Arts Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sunken Cemetery
''The Sunken Cemetery'' ( hr, Potonulo groblje) is a 2002 Croatian film directed by Mladen Juran. Nomination Melies d'Or Award for Best European Film of Fantasy. The screenplay is based on the novel of the same name by Goran Tribuson - screenwriter with Mladen Juran - collaboration of Oscar-winner Jiri Menzel Jiri ( ne, जिरी) is a municipality in Dolakha District in the Bagmati Province of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 13,638 people.. Jiri, which lies about 190 kilometers from Kathmandu, is the ma .... Film "Sunken Cemetery", 2002 - a surrealistic depiction of this time of war disaster in Croatia in the nineties: "The Horror of Mladen Juran The sunken cemetery that won the Sci-Fi festival in Brussels portrays a middle-aged man who returns to (...) ... the development of the drama, upgraded to thriller elements and occasional comedy or grotesque situations. The director takes the film with an extraordinary sense of rhythm, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
