Lida Braniš

Birth : 1927-12-08, Zagreb

Death : 1994-01-01

Movies

Lone Wolf
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A boy finds a large wolf-like dog in the mountain and they befriend. The local peasants think that it may be a real wolf responsible for the sheep pestilence. They decide to kill the animal, but the boy is worried about it and he secretly provides the dog with the food.
The Noble Strain
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Short animated film.
The Time of Silence
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In Slavonia in the 1970ies it was still common practice to send old people to a decrepit house, usually on the edge of a forest, where they'd be left waiting for death. This is a document about one such wait for death, of an 86-year-old farmer Antun Babić from the Slavonian village Babina Greda.
Hitch... Hitch... Hitchcock
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Auto-poetical collage announcement of a filmmakers future motion picture works.
The Birch Tree
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A beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her.
Jasenovac
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Survivors of the Jasenovac WW2 Concentration Camp gather to commemorate the first memorial service and the unveilment of the flower monument.
The Seventh Continent
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A group of children discover the new continent of the world, uninhabited by adults. Soon, many other children are joining them in that new paradise, leaving their parents and other adults baffled on all remaining continents.
The Key
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Segment "Duga ulica" (A Long Street): A young man named Boris and a girl, Vera, live in the same neighborhood. They meet one night when she loses her key. Boris invites her to spend the night at his place; Segment "Čekati" (To Wait): Married students, Ivan and Sonja, live in an old woman's apartment. She is sick and the couple hopes that she will die soon, so that they may inherit her apartment; Segment "Poslije predstave" (After the Play): A husband and a wife lose the key to their apartment and have to spend the night in a hotel. The experience is wonderful and renews their feelings for each other, if only for a night.
The Ballad of a Rooster
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An imaginative advertising film about Podravka and its soup concentrates, told through the perspective of a rooster. The first part of the film is dedicated to the rooster's life and Podravian motifs, and the second one to the Podravka factory.
My Apartment
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A semi-silent short film about a Croatian family moving to a new home. Their daughter comments everything in her homework essay.
People on Wheels
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The film depicts one working day in the lives of travelling workers in different parts of Croatia: Baranja, Slavonia, Zagorje, Kvarner and Banovina. Through interviews and by employing the so-called friendly-camera method, the director portrays these exhausted, sleepy people and their dreary daily grind. Their lives are particularly well reflected in the early morning scenes of salesmen asleep in the most peculiar places and in the most curious ways: leaning against a fence or a wall, sitting on the railway tracks.
The Ninth Circle
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In order to save a friend's daughter, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, from the Ustashas, the Croatian family arranges her to be wed to their son Ivo.