Ante Vićan

Movies

Milky Way
Stjepan
Two married couples of different religions and social status decide to swap their wives so they could all emigrate to New Zealand in an easier way.
Red Dust
Velečasni Grga
Wistful croquis of the neigborhood in western Zagreb at the beggining of the '90's.
The Awkward Age
Prefekt
Adaptation of the highly popular children's novel by Branko Copic, who in this book resembles his school and college days in Bihac, Bosnia, in the years before WWII.
Endeavor
Očev prijatelj Mirko
A story about a painter, an unconventional university professor, who has to deal with being haunted by his trouble past during the 2nd World War, while at the same time trying to cope with his university colleagues plotting against him.
Two Halves of a Heart
A boy's careless childhood is interrupted when he finds out about his parents' decision to divorce.
Gazija
Osmanski borac 2
Gazija are military men who patrol the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire in mid-18th century. One such man has trouble reconciling times of peace with his Gazija standing.
Lost Homeland
Općinar
The funeral in his native village evokes the main character's reminiscences from the childhood, but the bygone time exist only in his memories.
Defiant Delta
Marijančić
A poor village in Herzegovina suffers from constant flooding and different armies that periodically plunder the countryside. One woman is convinced that the solution to the problems lies in making a tunnel that should take the water to the sea.
The Return
Policeman
Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths under suspicion of being resistance sympathizers. Outraged townsfolk organize the siege of police station.
Buffet Titanic
Avgustin
Based on a short story of Ivo Andrić, famous Yugoslav Nobel Prize winner, this film is set in Sarajevo during WW2. Mento is a humble, poor Jew who runs a caffe. Stjepan is a man of unknown background, with no social or psychological dimension, who joined Nazis to leave any sort of trace behind himself.
Bravo Maestro
Ivin otac Mate
A young man who long ago gave over the hard work of being a composer for the easy life of a rich man's son is bamboozled into slapping together a musical production. Having borrowed right and left, and plagiarized the works of a friend, he feels cheap, very cheap. He feels even worse when the awful thing is a success.
Love and Sometimes a Curse
Načelnik općine
Dalmatia in the 1930s. Mate Pivac, a policeman and father of eight, finds out that the King himself becomes godfather to every ninth children in the country, and tries to make his wife sure that they need another child hoping for financial or any other kind of support. Eventually in the town arrives a circus troop, whose main star looks identically to Our Lady of the Angel. The attractive lady arouses male fantasies, so local women ask from Mate to make her leave the town by force. The trouble is that Mate himself is not immune to her beauty.