Oktavijan Miletić

Lisinski

Oktavijan Miletić

Branko Špoljar, Lidija Dominiković

Biography of Vatroslav Lisinski, 19th century Croatian composer and the author of the first Croatian opera.

Poslovi konzula Dorgena

Oktavijan Miletić

A mysterious consul, blessed with the power to hypnotise, manages to push young women to suicide to cash in their insurance, without having their blood on his hands. At the death of his sister, a young detective decides to hold an investigation into this curious character, at the risk of falling into the trap himself... Oktavijan Miletić considered to be the father of Croatian cinema, was one of the pioneers of avant-garde cinema in Croatia and shows this once again in this film.

Šešir

Oktavijan Miletić

Šime Marov

Film about a hat which changes its owners, until it ends up in the possession of a beggar who collects charity with it.

Zagreb u svjetlu velegrada

Oktavijan Miletić

A documentary about Croatia's capital aspirations of becoming metropolis. Camera follows everyday life of random city-goers. Title cards bring interesting plot twists, indeed making this film a mockumentary. One of the earliest preserved pieces of cinema in Croatia.

Barok u Hrvatskoj

Oktavijan Miletić

Marija Crnobori, Tito Strozzi

A docudrama about baroque art in Croatia.

Hotelski tat(ica)

Oktavijan Miletić

Stjepan Desnica, Ivo Strižić

Short silent film.

Strah

Oktavijan Miletić

It's based on a not-so-innocent practical joke. Two men and two women are chatting in a evening indoor setting, and although there are no intertitles in the film, one could suppose that the topic of the conversation is “the night”, or “fear”, as the film’s title suggests.

Nocturno

Oktavijan Miletić

Šime Marov, Stjepan Lončarić

A character with an overactive imagination witnesses strange events. Reality or fiction? Dive into the worrying universe of film noir.

Ah, bješe samo san!

Oktavijan Miletić

A film novella about a young dreamer in which the real world and the dream world are intertwined. After meeting a young lady in a park, but seeing her indifferent to his romantic overtures, the young man gets drunk and falls asleep. In his dreams he relives the meeting with the young women, which ends in his attempting to kiss her and subsequently falling of the bench. The fall is simultaneously the moment of awakening from his alcoholic stupor, which reveals the reality of his situation. The humor of the story stems from a formal reversal of the plot, a point at which a dream is unexpectedly separated from reality.

Amadeus Nickelnagel

Oktavijan Miletić

About a gentle young man, a misunderstood poet whose printed poems the ruffians use to wrap sausages. His misfortune is that he falls in love with an independent young athlete, with a modern worldview, who is interested in sports rather than poetry. Amadeus follows the young woman, brings her flowers and gives her one of his poems, at which point she, instead of offering tenderness, challenges him to a boxing match.