Dejan Šorak

29.03.1954, Karlovac

Šorak took a degree in film and television directing from the Academy of Theatre, Film and Television (today Academy of Drama Arts) in Zagreb. Along with Zoran Tadić and Živorad Tomić he is the eminent representative of Croatian genre film of the 1980’s, but, unlike the two aforementioned, he is prone to a more relaxed mixture of different genres - from persiflage western (Mala pljačka vlaka), ironical horror (Krvopijci) to action-adventure thriller The Time of Warriors (Vrijeme ratnika). He achieved his greatest success among critics and audiences with his post-war melodrama Officer With a Rose (Oficir s ružom, 1987), about an impossible love between a Partisan and a young bourgeois woman. He also directed for television and radio and wrote two novels.

Filmography

Films by this director

Officer With a Rose

(1987.)

Directed by: Dejan Šorak

PHOTOGRAPHY: Goran Trbuljak

Synopsis:

After WW II, Partisan officer Petar Horvat and his girlfriend Ljiljana move into an apartment in Zagreb. Its owner is a young widow, Matilda Ivančić. Matilda soon starts to seduce Petar with her sophistication and sex appeal. This love affair between Petar and the bourgeois Matilda is considered unsuitable, and Peter is warned by his chiefs…

35 mm, color, 110 min

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'

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'

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