Branko Špoljar

Branko Špoljar

Nacimiento : 1914-01-04, Zagreb, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]

Muerte : 1985-10-27

Perfil

Branko Špoljar

Películas

Slow Motion
A 40 year old former football star and idol of his generation feels that there's a gap between him and the rest of his peers. In order to cross divides over, he makes 20th anniversary party for his school friends he graduated with, only to find out that things are more complicated than he first thought.
The rat savior
Rupčić
Un escritor descubre una especie de roedores que se proponen hacerse pasar por seres humanos. Basada en la novela del escritor ruso Aleksandr Grin "Cazador de ratas" de 1924. Ganadora del premio a mejor película en el festival Fantasporto de 1982. El propio director realizó un remake en 2003 titulado "Infekcija" de producción belgo-croata.
Little Mother
Marina Pinares, the wife of the president of a South American country, insists on being his vice-presidential running mate in the next election. She's no stranger to assassination to get what she wants, so some suspect she'll kill her own husband after the election to become president. In a series of flashbacks we see her rise to power: a party girl willing to sacrifice a friend's virtue to gain favor; the lover of a soldier she later tortures; the mistress of the military man she soon marries.
Lone Wolf
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.
Shepherd
Drug iz općine
The tribulations of a hardy shepherd and a young boy fighting local peasants in order to have the right to graze his sheep. The old man is killed by some enraged peasants but the young boy carries on his work and battle.
Handcuffs
Učitelj
Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian inland in Croatia. Ante marries a much younger woman, Visnja; the groom's godfather is Andrija, the partisan war hero born in this very village, and a member of the new Communist political establishment. Two members of the Yugoslav State Security crash the traditional wedding ceremony. In the growing atmosphere of fear nobody knows who will be arrested.
The Rage Within
A University professor is being blackmailed by his own daughter for having an affair with one of her friends.
The Ravine
Thin Soldier
In the winter of 1943, deep in the frozen waste of German occupied Yugoslavia, a lone parachute drifts from the snowy skies, falling ever closer to earth and a waiting German patrol car. Suddenly shots ring out from a hidden sniper, the Germans are killed, and the parachutist scurries away into the forest. The sniper is a woman, the number one partisan terrorist on the German hit list, and her adversary is the German number one exterminator sent direct from berlin to eliminate her. The battle is on, orders from high command - capture her… alive. Both are professional, but now the hunter becomes the hunted.
When You Hear the Bells
Komandant bataljona
Partizan commisar, a Communist intellectual from Zagreb, must bring the group of Serb partizans in line.
Accidental Life
Direktor
Dos jóvenes administrativos, remeros amateur, viven sus vidas cotidianas, tratando de exprimirle a la vida más emociones y placeres. El más introvertido y sensible de los dos se enamorará de una atractiva mujer...
Winnetou en el valle de la muerte
Cranfield
Mabel Kingsley se dirige a un pueblo del oeste para limpiar el nombre de su padre, acusado de robar oro del gobierno. En su búsqueda de la verdad, cuenta con la ayuda de Old Shatterhand, el Mayor Kingsley, un teniente del ejército, un botánico amateur y Winnetou. Pese a las trabas causadas por los bandidos a los que persiguen y por el jefe Sioux, enemigo de Winnetou, el grupo llega al Valle de la Muerte, lugar donde se encuentran las claves sobre el oro perdido que Kingsley ha venido a buscar.
El día más largo de Kansas City
Doc (uncredited)
Apanatschi, hija del colono Mac Haller y de su mujer india Mine-Yota, recibe una mina de oro en su 21 cumpleaños como regalo de su padre. Pero la nueva posesión también acarrea serios peligros. La temida banda de Curly-Bill enseguida aparece para quedarse con el oro. Old Shatterhand y Winnetou deberán proteger a Apanatschi. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Key
Liječnik
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 Real State of Affairs
A young married man goes into the army and when he comes back finds out that his wife has gone off with another man.
Furia Apache
Bancroft
Una compañía planea la construcción de una línea ferroviaria que una el este y el oeste de Estados Unidos, pero los colonos y las tribus indias que habitan el territorio no están dispuestos a permitírselo. Los conflictos entre los afectados y la compañía se agravan cuando Santer, el líder de una banda de delincuentes, intenta saquear una mina de oro ubicada en territorio apache.
El tesoro del lago de la plata
Doc Jefferson Hartley
El coronel Brinkley es un criminal que se ha hecho con el mapa de donde está el tesoro del Lago de la Plata. Winnetou y Old Shatterhand acuden una vez más en pro de la bondad, pero por el camino se encontrarán con tribus enemigas que les harán frente.
Kozara
Njemački kapetan
In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.
Lum and Abner Abroad
Papa Passavetz
The "boys" from Pine Ridge visit Europe and try to help a Yugoslavian ballerina find her American lover, become involved with French jewel thieves, and take on posh society in Monte Carlo.
The Concert
Edmund
Celebrating the end of World War II and liberation of their city, a group of students is set on holding a cultural evening. They invite Ema, a reclusive piano teacher from the same building, to play for them. Ema declines, but starts reminscing back on her own life and the historical events that have seemingly overshadowed it.
Lisinski
Vatroslav Lisinski
Biography of Vatroslav Lisinski, 19th century Croatian composer and the author of the first Croatian opera.