Rajko Grlić

Novo, novo vrijeme

Rajko Grlić, Igor Mirković

"Croatia 2000 - Who Wants To Be A President" is a feature-length documentary film about dramatic political events that occurred in the period between the death of Croatian president Franjo Tudjman and the victory of Stipe Mesić in the presidential elections. Incessantly following (sometimes with ten cameras) the most influential figures in Croatian political life, cameras witnessed the moments of their biggest battle, their greatest victory and crushing defeat, and days of great strain, passion and political combat.

The Constitution

Rajko Grlić

Nebojša Glogovac, Dejan Aćimović

Four very different people live in the same building but avoid each other because of differences in how they live their lives, what they believe in, and where they come from. They would probably never exchange a word, but misfortune pushes them towards each other. Their lives entangle in ways that profoundly challenge deep-held beliefs and prejudices surrounding material status, sexual orientation, nationality and religion. Slowly, and even painfully, they begin to open up to each other and recognize the essential humanity each of them possesses.

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?

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.

Karaula

Rajko Grlić

Sergej Trifunović, Toni Gojanović

At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war.

In the Jaws of Life

Rajko Grlić

Gorica Popović, Vitomira Lončar

Two parallel tales about two modern women. One is Štefica Cvek, average and lonely girl who desperately tries to find the man of her dreams. The other story is about a woman director who is making the movie about Štefica and has the same problem.

Charuga

Rajko Grlić

Ivo Gregurević, Davor Janjić

This film is based on the true story about Jovan Stanisavljevic alias Charuga, the bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia, Croatia.

You Love Only Once

Rajko Grlić

Miki Manojlović, Vladislava Milosavljević

Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family. His love affair with the class enemy and his slow adaptation to the post-war realities could seal his doom.

If It Kills Me

Rajko Grlić

Mladen Budiščak, Jagoda Kaloper

For being unable to find any decent job, an unconventional young man of working-class background gives up of all sorts of employment, and accompanied by his girlfriend, he tells his story in front of film cameras.

Bravo maestro

Rajko Grlić

Rade Šerbedžija, Aleksandar Berček

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 cheap, very cheap. He feels even worse when the awful thing is a success.

Za sreću je potrebno troje

Rajko Grlić

Miki Manojlović, Mira Furlan

A pretty factory girl falls for an ex con. He's still in love with his ex wife. Love triangle soon becomes even larger.

Vsaka dobra zgodba je ljubezenska zgodba

Rajko Grlić, Matjaž Ivanišin

Dušan Jovanović, Milena Zupančič

A film about a theatre performance and four very notable people behind it: writer and director D. Jovanović, actress M. Zupančič and actors R. Polič and B. Cavazza. This is a story of a love triangle and of a multi-layered, entirely overt intertwining of protagonists’ public artistic personas and their personal lives. The film documents a 4-month process of the making of a theatre piece from the first rehearsal to the opening night, at the same time uncovering the intimate lives of the artists and telling a universal story of the relationship between the real and the imagined, a story of personal and public perceptions of art.

Josephine

Rajko Grlić

Maria Schrader, Giancarlo Esposito

Misadventures of a hapless young man from rural Bohemia who, in 1991, is finally free to cross newly open borders.

Neka ostane među nama

Rajko Grlić

Miki Manojlović, Bojan Navojec

Nikola is a man who knows how to really enjoy life; he's even able to rouse sympathy for his sinful ways. His brother turns a blind eye to his philandering although, with a broken marriage behind him, he doesn't have a clear conscience, either. Is there anything positive to be said about infidelity, or does it simply deserve the utmost contempt, particularly when it's more premeditated than spontaneous?

Sve jedno drugo pojede

Rajko Grlić

Slobodan Majer, Đurđica Rubčić

A time for sowing and a time for a marriage followed by everyday struggle and change of seasons. Chicken feed on the seeds of plowed fields, man eats chicked, life eats man... In front of a fixed eye the cycle of life evolves.

Đavolji raj

Rajko Grlić

Tom Conti, Susan George

World War II finally reaches a Yugoslavian lake, where a lifeguard shelters a refugee and her son.