Zdenko Jelčić

That's How I Love You (2024)

While spending holidays at his grandparents' place in the countryside, a boy learns a cruel lesson of mercy. ...

Good Times, Bad Times (2023)

Sitting in a restaurant representing the waiting room to the other world, a tired old man watches the patrons who represent him and his immediate family during the important moments of his life. Moments that have impacted him and the family, and have turne ...

Carbide (2022)

Antonio and Nikola are inseparable friends who live across the road from each other, and share a love of pyrotechnics and mobile phones. Their families have been in dispute for years over an easily resolvable problem: the water that flows from the top hous ...

Manhattan Odyssey (2020)

Jacob, once famous but now retired seventy-year-old actor, is looking for a dog-walker for his adorable little black schnauzer, Mitzy, that he obsessively loves more than anything else in the world. Out of all the candidates he picks Daniel, seemingly the ...

Der Kroatien-Krimi: Tote Mädchen (2020)

Mare (2020)

Routinely, but with dedication, Mare runs her small family's modest household, even though a new washing machine is not the only thing that is missing. When a chance encounter rekindles her libido, she does not hold back for long. ...

Der Kroatien-Krimi: Der Henker (2019)

What a Country! (2018)

A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president. ...

Der Kroatien-Krimi: Messer am Hals (2018)

Mary (2017)

Marinko, an assistant worker in the tow-away service has had visions of Virgin Mary. He does not know what to do with her. ...

The Constitution (2016)

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 eac ...

The Vegetarian Cannibal (2012)

Danko Babic is an ambitious and amoral gynaecologist at Croatia's leading fertility clinic. When his colleague Bantic is appointed as head of the clinic, Babic starts a secret war to overthrow his rival. Distracted by his ruthless campaign he makes series ...

No One's Son (2008)

Ivan is a 36-year old ex-rock singer and a disillusioned war veteran who lost both legs in the recent Croatian Homeland War. His father, Izidor, was a well-known political prisoner in the former Yugoslavia, and is now standing as an independent candidate f ...

Warchild (2006)

Years after the end of the Bosnian war, a woman finds evidence that her young daughter, who disappeared during the war, might have survived and been adopted by a German family. ...

Is It Clear, My Friend? (2000)

A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime. ...

Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing (1991)

A young man is determined to find out what happened to his grandfather who was arrested and then disappeared in WW2, why did the new communist government label their family as traitors and why was his father killed many years later. ...

Eagle (1990)

Radovan Orlak Orao fell off a skyscraper on the day when four of his old friends waited for him to celebrate his birthday. They had been friends since childhood, but now at middle age they see each other only occasionally. ...

Death Diploma (1989)

Two young bright university graduates start a brilliant career of gangsters. ...

Just Another Secret (1989)

An American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at the time when glasnost is coming into place. ...

Hamburg Altona (1989)

Three prisoners, Combe from Rijeka, Menso from Bosnia, and Bogart from Belgrade, escape from prison. Their final destination is the city of their dreams - Hamburg. They temporarily part ways and agree to meet at the train station in Zagreb. First, each of ...

Return of Katarina Kozul (1989)

After her husband's death in Germany, an attractive young widow leaves his native village in Herzegovina to work abroad. There she starts an affair with an Italian worker that proves to be unsuccessful, yet she gets pregnant. She does an abortion, which is ...

Ciao, Ciao Bambina (1988)

A monotonous life of a timid clerk from Zagreb takes an unexpected turn when an easygoing slacker from Bosnia deliberately moves into his apartment. ...

The Orchid Villa (1988)

Successful writer (Boris), accompanied with his fiancé, returns to place where he grew up in hope to find inspiration for new book. But memories are somewhat distracting, especially those of an old love... ...

The Drinking Bout (1987)

A young family from the province moves into the ground floor of a quiet building in Zagreb and with their lifestyle and behavior disrupts the idyllic atmosphere that reigned in that neighborhood until then. All attempts by the natives to bring them into or ...

King of Endings (1987)

Branko Kralj is an alienated businessman and avid chess fan. He is married to the attractive Visnja and they have a son. Their marriage is weak and Branko feels much closer to his mistress than to his wife. One day Kralj and Visnja travel on a half empty t ...

Evening Bells (1986)

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

Bridge to Hell (1986)

When three prisoners of war escape from a prison camp in Yugoslavia they encounter partisans, who they agree to help fight in return for a safe passage to freedom. Their task is to blow up a strategic bridge which is heavily defended by German troops. Foll ...

Anticasanova (1985)

Mirko is happily married man in his forties, employed in a record company. His quiet life is interrupted when a pretty young woman moves into an apartment on the upper floor. With the help of his friend Stipe, Mirko tries to seduce the aspiring singer - bu ...

Out of Control (1985)

Upon graduation from high school eight teens take a seaplane trip, intending to celebrate on Keith's parents' private island. Stormy weather causes the plane to crash and they end up on a deserted isle. They find evidence of other visitors, and soon must f ...

Open Space (1985)

Summer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme emigrant organizations, infiltrated the territory of former Yugoslavia with intent to organize an uprising against Tito's regime. This series, very loosely ba ...

The Little Train Robbery (1984)

Lika, Austro-Hungarian Empire, the year is 1918, the last year of WWI. In a wasteland rocky area, among ravines there is a small gendarmery police station with several gendarmes headed by sergeant Cokula. The area is controlled by a group of outlaws led by ...

Cyclops (1982)

Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war. ...

The Liberanos (1979)

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 opposed ...

Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978)

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. B ...

Bombing Process (1978)

In 1928 young Communist activist was arrested and put on trial for anti-state activity. Years later he became known as Tito, Communist president of Yugoslavia, and this TV-movie was made for the 50th anniversary of those events. ...

Don't Lean Out the Window (1977)

Encouraged by the stories of guest workers who pay visit to their homeland, a young man Filip finds himself on a central station in Frankfurt on the Main, Germany. While looking for his old friend Mate who would help him to get around in new environment, F ...

The Hunt (1974)

Through Šimun's conflict with the head of the new agricultural cooperative, where he is forced to work in order to feed his family, the changes that land reclamation has brought to everyday life in the Neretva Valley are depicted, destroying the tradition ...

Ninth Miracle on the East (1972)

Perpetual wandering of a man who searches for his own identity, never reaching the final destination. ...