''Eagle'' () is a 1990 Croatian film directed by

Zoran Tadić Zoran Tadić (2 September 1941 – 9 September 2007) was a Croatian film director, critic, and pedagogue. Zoran Tadić is considered as one of the most important Croatian film directors, having directed more than twenty films from 1969 to 1997. ...

. It is based on ''Umjetni orao'', a novel by

Pavao Pavličić Pavao Pavličić (born 16 August 1946, in Vukovar) is a Croatian writer, literary historian and translator whose main focus are crime novels. He writes for both adults and children. Pavao Pavličić was born on August 16, 1946, in Vukovar, wher ...

Plot summary

Radovan Orlak, known to his friends as Orao (Eagle), fell to his death off a high-rise building on his birthday. Upon hearing the news, four of his long-time friends—Milan, Dražen, Krešo and Vlado—realize how little they actually knew about him and begin to investigate in the hopes of uncovering what really happened. They assume their friend has committed suicide, and begin to exact revenge on people whom they deem responsible. After a while, they find out that Orao was seen with an unidentified man on the night of his death, and begin to suspect he was actually murdered.''Orao''
at hrfilm.hr

Cast

Vlatko Dulić Vlatko Dulić (20 April 1943 – 20 November 2015) was a Croatian theatre, television and film actor and theatre director. Hailing from Subotica in Vojvodina, a province of Serbia, Dulić studied acting at the University of Zagreb, Zagreb Academy ...

as Vlado * Ivica Vidović as Krešo *

Zdenko Jelčić Zdenko Jelčić (born 8 August 1946) is a Croatian actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1972. Selected filmography References External links * 1946 births Living people People from Čapljina Croatian male film ac ...

as Milan *

Božidar Orešković Božidar Orešković (21 August 1942 – 09 July 2010) was a Croatian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1963 to 2010. Selected filmography References External links * 1942 births 2010 deaths Croatian male film actor ...

as Dražen *

Fabijan Šovagović Fabijan Šovagović (4 January 1932 – 1 January 2001) was a Croatian film, television and theatre actor, and writer. Biography Šovagović was born in the village of Ladimirevci, in the Slavonia region of Croatia, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He ...

as Kristofić *

Gordana Gadžić Gordana Gadžić ( sr-Cyrl, Гордана Гаџић; born 21 August 1955) is a Serbian actress. She has appeared in more than 30 films since 1981. Selected filmography References External links * 1955 births Living people Actre ...

as Zlatka *

Ksenija Pajić Ksenija Pajić (born 30 June 1961) is a Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to ...

as Branka * Iva Marjanović as Jasna * Ljiljana Bogojević as Zdravka * Renata Ćurković as Marjana * Otokar Levaj as the secretary * Smiljka Bencet as the cleaning lady * Boris Festini as the violinist

Release and reception

Shortly after the film was completed, Marjan Film went bankrupt, which was followed by the outbreak of

Yugoslav Wars The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related#Naimark, Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and Insurgency, insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in what had been the Socialist Federal Republic of ...

. As a result, the film was never distributed theatrically. While

Croatian Film Association The Croatian Film Association (, HFS), also known as the Croatian Film Clubs' Association, is an association of non-professional film and video groups in Croatia. Croatian Film Association was established in 1963. Since 1992, it is a member of Uni ...

's database assessed ''Eagle'' as Tadić's weakest film to date, Croatian film critic Nenad Polimac listed it in his 2007 selection of "lost classics" of Croatian cinema.

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 0100304, Eagle 1990 films 1990s Croatian-language films Films based on Croatian novels Films set in Zagreb Croatian drama films 1990 drama films Yugoslav drama films Films directed by Zoran Tadić