Ivo Brešan

Películas

Libertas
Writer
The film is set in mid-16th century, at a time when the entire eastern Mediterranean is dominated by two great empires, the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, with the small but wealthy maritime republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik) managing to maintain its independence through diplomatic agreements.
Pula Confidential
Himself
A documentary about the history of Yugoslavian Film Festival in Pula and ex-Yu cinema in general. Many legends of ex-Yu cinema were interviewed here.
How the War Started on My Island
Writer
At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.
The Donator
Writer
A war drama about a German officer's search for a priceless art collection.
Promised Land
Writer
Settlers from infertile parts of Yugoslavia, arrive to rich Slavonia and Baranja. There they are faced with the decree of the Communist government by which they will be left without the land that they received in the process of collectivization just a year ago. The peasants fiercely resist the government's decision. Milisa Matic is a peasant who fights against the establishment of peasant cooperatives because in that case many peasants would lose their newly acquired land. The Communist government has decreed the founding of cooperatives and Markan Radisic is in charge of their establishment. When Markan's son proposes to Milisa's daughter, the two men confront each other. In self-defense Markan kills Milisa, however the national court fails to find mitigating circumstances. On the way to prison he listens to the news on radio about the abolition of agricultural cooperatives.
El secreto de Tesla
Writer
Cuenta la vida de Nikola Tesla, escritor del destino de la electricidad
The rat savior
Writer
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.
A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja
Screenplay
A corrupt village commissar insists on mounting a production of Hamlet. The clever local teacher, however, casts the son of a man framed for theft as Hamlet, and the commissar as the usurping king, leading to a climax of truly Shakespearean proportions.