Cycle

From 23.03. To 04.04.2007.

Croatian genre films of 1980s

Croatian genre films of 1980s

 

Films in cycle

Rhythm of a Crime

(Yugoslavia, Centar film Beograd, Televizija Zagreb, 1981)

Directed by: Zoran Tadić
PHOTOGRAPHY: Goran Trbuljak
Synopsis:

In the Zagreb quarter of Trnje, old houses are being torn down to make room for concrete giants. The owner of a house on the list for demolition has a tenant obsessed with crime statistics, and his hobby is accurately calculating the possibility of the occurrence of new criminal deeds. His premonitions come true. Soon, he discovers an anomaly in the rhythm of crime and foresees his own death. It is a landmark film for the Croatian cinema of the eighties that became a cult hit. The film has engl...

b/w, 35 mm, 89'
PROJECTION:
Saturday 24.03.2007 AT 21:00
Friday 23.03.2007 AT 19:00

Zločin u školi

(1982)

Directed by: Branko Ivanda
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ivica Rajković
Synopsis:

Zlatko Kovač, a provincial professor without any real ambitions, gets a job in one of the highschools in Zagreb and moves to Zagreb with his mother. Soon, he finds out that he got transferred to the big city for a reason. Professor Tot, whose job Zlatko got, died under suspicious conditions. In the new school Kovač meets an array of weird characters and soon finds a corpse in the teachers’ lounge.

color, digital, 96 min
PROJECTION:
Saturday 24.03.2007 AT 19:00
Friday 23.03.2007 AT 21:00

Treći ključ

(1983)

Directed by: Zoran Tadić
PHOTOGRAPHY: Goran Trbuljak
Synopsis:

A young couple, after a long time of waiting, moves in their new apartment. From the very beginning, odd things start to happen - there are weird unknown people around the building and during the night someone tries to break into their apartment. The young couple gets scared. Soon they receive a large amount of money from an unknown sender. This is the second feature film by Zoran Tadić, characterized by an increased dose of mystery on the verge of horror.

color, 35 mm, 81 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 27.03.2007 AT 21:00
Monday 26.03.2007 AT 19:00

Mala pljačka vlaka

(Croatia, 1984)

Directed by: Dejan Šorak
PHOTOGRAPHY: Karpo Aćimović-Godina
Synopsis:

The story takes place in Lika in 1918, at the end of WW I. On a remote saddle of Velebit Mountain there is a gendarmerie station situated just at the edge of the area controlled by criminals led by Todor the Horrible. This time in history was crucial; nobody knew what would happen the next day and whether Austria-Hungary and the gendarmerie would survive. Therefore the chief gendarmerie officer, Cokula, develops a sort of a collegial relationship with the criminals but at the same time he would...

color, digital, 103'
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 27.03.2007 AT 19:00
Monday 26.03.2007 AT 21:00

Kraljeva završnica

(1987)

Directed by: Živorad Tomić
PHOTOGRAPHY: Boris Turković
Synopsis:

Branko Kralj is an alienated businessman and avid chess fan. He is married to the attractive Višnja 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 Višnja travel on a half empty train. Kralj goes to a far away compartment for a game of chess, and leaves Višnja alone. Three men take advantage of the lone woman in her compartment and rape her…

color, digital, 97 minuta
PROJECTION:
Thursday 29.03.2007 AT 21:00
Wednesday 28.03.2007 AT 19:00

Krvopijci

(Yugoslavia, 1989)

Directed by: Dejan Šorak
PHOTOGRAPHY: Goran Trbuljak
Synopsis:

Rumors about a vampire who attacks lonely women are going around Zagreb. One night a strange visitor by the name Teobald Majer arrives to Doctor Franz Glogowecz’s psychiatric practice in a secluded villa in the Old town. Teobald is convinced that he is a vampire from the 16th century and that Franjo Glogovac’s (which is Franz Glogowecz’s real name) family was once famous for hunting vampires. Franz thinks that Teobald is just another eccentric but his wife Barbara, who fancies the stranger, thin...

color, 35 mm, 88'
PROJECTION:
Saturday 31.03.2007 AT 21:00
Friday 30.03.2007 AT 19:00

Diploma za smrt

(1989)

Directed by: Živorad Tomić
PHOTOGRAPHY: Silvestar Kolbas
Synopsis:

The story takes place in contemporary Zagreb. Two best friends, after finishing college, start a criminal business. With their new and aggressive approach, they soon encroach on the turf of more established criminals, making conflict inevitable. Ultimately, the two friends grow apart - the more humane of the two cannot keep up with his hard-bitten, unscrupulous friend…

color, 35mm, 105 minuta
PROJECTION:
Monday 02.04.2007 AT 21:00
Saturday 31.03.2007 AT 19:00

The Man Who Loved Funerals

(Yugoslavia, 1989)

Directed by: Zoran Tadić
PHOTOGRAPHY: Goran Trbuljak
Synopsis:

A story about a series of intriguing deaths that shook a small town near Zagreb (Samobor)... This was Tadić’s last film made in the eighties, and it established him as one of the most interesting and most fruitful authors of the 1980s.  

color, 100'
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 04.04.2007 AT 19:00
Monday 02.04.2007 AT 19:00
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