Josip Genda

Josip Genda

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Josip Genda

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Tressette: A Story of an Island
Martin
Three friends in desperate search for the fourth player of the card game called tressette.
Garcia
Dramatic story of a returnee from Argentina who tries to find answers to the unfortunate events from the past.
Madonna
In a small Croatian village in 1991, a carpenter Kuzma falls for much younger Ana. In spite of their surroundings' opposition towards their relationship, the couple marries and Ana gives birth to their son. Being also familiar with the statuary, he makes a sculpture of Madonna for the local church. A quiet life of the village is disturbed when the first clashes between Croats and Serbs arise.
Transatlantic
A young man flees to the United States searching for the American dream.
The Canyon of Dangerous Games
Beli
A German family Keller arrives to the coastal village to spend summer holidays with their Croatian friends. Horst Keller and Roger Katushic were friends ever since Karl May's film adaptations took place there. Their children were friends for years, too, and they look forward to the reunion. Fantasizing about free life and "cowboys & Indians" adventures in the canyon of the Cetina river, the boys go there without knowing that the three cruel Chetniks who had just escaped from prison hide there.
The Seventh Cronicle
Odoriko
In former Yugoslavia, following Tito's break-up with Stalin, the rocky island of Goli Otok was the camp site for political prisoners. From that officially non-existant yet dreaded place a young man escapes and seeks refuge on a nearby island. The nuns from the local convent find him unconscious and decide to give him shelter. A relentless secret policeman comes to the island and starts making life miserable for its inhabitants, hoping to find his prey...
The Time of Warriors
Fabijan
Two friends, Fabijan and Dakar, go fishing on a calm river close to Zagreb. In his youth, Fabijan was a Partisan, and Dakar a member of the Foreign Legion. Suddenly, while fishing, they are attacked by unknown assassins. While fighting for their lives, they wonder if this is revenge for unsettled accounts from their past. Fabijan and Dakar set off on a quest for the assassins and motives for their attack...
The Murmur of the Shell
A pharmacist travels from the island to the usual medical treatment at hospital in Zagreb. He's followed by low-ranked regime official whose conduct reveals all the misery that arises between people living in totalitarian systems.
The Hole
Two neighbors quarrel through the hole in the wall which connects their bedrooms.
House on the Sand
An architect returns from Ampurias in Spain. There is a friend of his, an investigating officer waiting for him at the airport. He spends some days in Split and suddenly takes his own life. His friend finds a audio tape he left in his apartment. He listens to the architect's story and slowly he begins to think like a suicide...
From One Friday to the Next
Friday is the day that everyone goes away for the weekend. A bank clerk spends his weekend off a small island with his boat, but the weekend does not run its usual course.