Synopsis:

A young doctor, Jure, arrives with his wife to a backward little town in a swamp area. Soon there is an outburst of fever among the inhabitants and the doctor wants to treat it. However, the people from the village are superstitious and instead call the village sorceress. Then someone is murdered and the doctor, with the help of a young girl, sets off in search of the killer…

black and white, 97 min.

PROJECTION:

Thursday 18.03.2004 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

This is an action drama/catastrophe film that tells the story of different people who travel on a bus and a truck driver. The bus and the truck will collide in a rainy night and only a few passengers will survive. H8, part of the license plate, is all that is known about the vehicle that caused this accident… According to many, this is the best film by Nikola Tanhofer. It won two Golden Arenas – for the best film and director – and the audience award Jelen at the Pula film festival.

b/w, 106'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 23.03.2004 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

This is the first Croatian (and former Yugoslav) science fiction feature film and, based on motifs from Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale. In this film, Tanhofer explored the unconventional determinants of the genre and questioned the creative possibilities of special effects (that he managed to create within the limits of the technically undeveloped cinematography), and their aesthetic justification in the service of fairy tale content. This film is famous for the last role of that Grand Dam...

b/w, 102 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 25.03.2004 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

This is one of the anthological films of Croatian cinematography, an intense thriller with the theme of WW II. In it, Tanhofer once again proved himself as a precise director in mastering the story. Tanhofer himself often emphasized that he was very pleased with this film because in it he “satisfied all of the laws and solved all of the problems of a genre film”.

b/w, 96 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 30.03.2004 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

This film deals with the contemporary theme of emotionally complicated relationships between little people. Tanhofer made this film in the period of the so-called auteur cinematography and throughout it experimented with the changing size of frames.

b/w, 95'

PROJECTION:

Thursday 01.04.2004 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

This is the story of a group of young amateur pilots with impressive shots of air stunts. It is also one of the first Croatian films made in color.

color, 54 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 06.04.2004 AT 17:00