Movies: Ante Vićan

Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who jo...

Gazija are military men who patrol the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire in mid-18th century. One such man has trouble reconciling times of peace with his Gazija standing....

Dalmatia in the 1930s. Mate Pivac, a policeman and father of eight, finds out that the King himself becomes godfather to every ninth children in the country, and tries to make his wife sure that they need another child hoping for financial or any oth...

Wistful croquis of the neigborhood in western Zagreb at the beggining of the '90's....

The father dreams that at least his son Grga will return from Germany to his homeland because his second son is an employed Party member, lives in the city, and tries to push through some new projects in his village which traditional environment is o...

A young man who long ago gave over the hard work of being a composer for the easy life of a rich man's son is bamboozled into slapping together a musical production. Having borrowed right and left, and plagiarized the works of a friend, he feels chea...

Adaptation of the highly popular children's novel by Branko Copic, who in this book resembles his school and college days in Bihac, Bosnia, in the years before WWII....

The funeral in his native village evokes the main character's reminiscences from the childhood, but the bygone time exist only in his memories....

A poor village in Herzegovina suffers from constant flooding and different armies that periodically plunder the countryside. One woman is convinced that the solution to the problems lies in making a tunnel that should take the water to the sea....

Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths under suspicion of being resistance sympathizers. Outraged townsfolk organize the siege of police station...

A story about a painter, an unconventional university professor, who has to deal with being haunted by his trouble past during the 2nd World War, while at the same time trying to cope with his university colleagues plotting against him....

A boy's careless childhood is interrupted when he finds out about his parents' decision to divorce....

Two married couples of different religions and social status decide to swap their wives so they could all emigrate to New Zealand in an easier way....