Lordan Zafranović

Gosti i radnici

Lordan Zafranović

Fahro Konjhodžić, Zaim Muzaferija

A comedy mocking the self-management system - the workers become owners of a luxury hotel on the Adriatic coast.

Seven Thousand Souls

Sanjin Mirić

Jelena Ciric, Lordan Zafranović

SEVEN THOUSAND SOULS is a documentary - a feature film about the suffering of Serbian and Russian soldiers and interned civilians in Austro-Hungarian camps on the territory of today's Czech Republic, Jindrihovice and Broumov. The camps had about 500 facilities where there were about 60,000 prisoners of war. Extremely difficult working conditions, no food, no shoes and clothes, winter and infectious diseases, all this affected the fact that 7,100 Serbs did not survive the camps. There is a mausoleum in Jindrihovice where the remains are victims of these camps - 7100 Serbs and 189 Russians. It is the second largest Serbian tomb in the world.

Krv i pepeo Jasenovca

Lordan Zafranović

Adolf Hitler, Ante Pavelić

This film tells the story about the concentration camp run by Ustashas and was made on the 40th anniversary of the inmates' escape from the camp.

Zalazak stoljeća (Testament L.Z.)

Lordan Zafranović

Andrija Artuković, Lordan Zafranović

An epic documentary of rise and fall of Ustasha regime in Croatia.

Mi iz Praga

Rajko Grlić

Rajko Grlić, Goran Marković

Students from the Prague Academy of Film (FAMU) talk about their life in Prague. Filmed in Prague in 1968, a few months before the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Okupacija, 27. slika

Pavo Marinković

Rajko Grlić, Pavo Marinković

We encounter the controversial Croatian film director Lordan Zafranovic in voluntary exile in Prague. The film follows his rise from a talented outsider to the celebrated Yugoslav director of the acclaimed war film, 'An Occupation in 26 Pictures'. His life story is an unconventional depiction of a rise and fall that reveals compromises made in order to survive artistically during communism, as well as the missed opportunities and miscalculations that led to his inability to adapt in later years. Is the charismatic Zafranovic a national traitor or a victim of historical circumstances in which the only thing he wanted to do, in his own words, was to be himself and make films?

Occupation in 26 Pictures

Lordan Zafranović

Frano Lasić, Milan Štrljić

Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.

Poslije podne (Puška)

Lordan Zafranović

Tomislav Gotovac, Milivoj Bosnić

On a hot summer afternoon in a city courtyard, a young man amuses himself by aiming air guns at random targets. The film examines the roots and manifestations of Evil, which will become the director’s permanent concern.

Večernja zvona

Lordan Zafranović

Rade Šerbedžija, Petar Božović

Trials and tribulations of a Croatian communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after the Second World War.

Chronicle of a Crime

Lordan Zafranović

Hermina Pipinić, Božidar Jelenić

This is an omnibus consisting of three stories, all of which deal with deviations of the human psyche. In the story "Waltz", we learn about the first sexual experiences of a man who attends a dancing school in Split. In the story "Ave Maria", a cruel crime destroys a pastoral idyll, and in the story "Seas", we meet a family, living on an isolated island, that goes through an existential crisis ending in murder.

Ubistvo u noćnom vozu

Lordan Zafranović

Слободан „Цица“ Перовић, Dragan Nikolić

An old and a young man are travelling together. The old man reminds the young of his father, and the young man reminds the old of his wasted and meaningless life.

Pad Italije

Lordan Zafranović

Daniel Olbrychski, Ena Begović

The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resistence movement of Communists is dedicated to sabotaging and ending the occupation. When a wealthy young man joins the resistence, he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a spy for the Italians. As a result of his liaison and her activity, they are both executed by a Communist comrade - a previous friend. The comrade is dedicated to the hard-line policies of the resistence, until he himself falls in love with the daughter of a bourgeois landowner on the island - a landowner who has collaborated with the Italians. Neither the Italian occupying army (one officer is shown in an attempted rape scene) nor the resistence fighters are stereotyped forces for good or evil, but all are equally subject to the dehumanizing effects of war.

Ljudi (u prolazu) II

Lordan Zafranović

The concept of the film "People (Passing) II" can best be described as an ultimate dynamic of visual and acoustic rhythm with a texture which consists of people passing, standing, sitting, laying, swinging, fukmed by static, mobile, at times intrusive, but always with a highly suggestive camera.

Angel's Bite

Lordan Zafranović

Marina Nemet, Boris Kralj

A lighthouse keeper lives on an isolated island together with his wife, ailing father and retarded sister. News of a serial killer stalking the isolated lighthouses makes him leave in order to hunt him down. In the meantime, the wife meets a mysterious and seductive stranger.

Fokus

Ivan Martinac

Tomislav Gotovac, Ivan Miljak

The Focus is the film about easy death on the Mediterranean sun.

Nedjelja

Lordan Zafranović

Goran Marković, Dragomir Čumić

A group of young men rampage all day through the streets of an Adriatic port make love, wrangle over lunch, drink, finally steal a bus and is a burst of destructiveness drive it over the cliffs into the sea from which in surrealist fashion they are resurrected.