Vanja Drach

Vanja Drach

Nacimiento : 1932-02-01, Bošnjaci, Croatia

Muerte : 2009-09-06

Perfil

Vanja Drach

Películas

Sólo entre nosotros
Matko
Narra la historia de dos hermanos, sus mujeres, amantes e hijos, que viven el drama de no saber quiénes son sus verdaderos padres. Pero, esta doble vida, estas relaciones paralelas acabarán teniendo terribles consecuencias.
Behind the Glass
Majin otac
Through a period of five days, the story follows intertwined characters who live in false serenity and rather chaotic general order.
All for Free
Fara
A 30 year old, carefree man who lives off his parents' inheritance is untouched by war that affected most of his friends, but only until one of his friends died. This throws him completely off his routine, and he decides to sell all his belongings and start doing something memorable.
Libertas
Saro
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.
Infection
Profesor Rudolf
In a fictional Central European country democracy and freedom are only illusion, because behind polished surface there's many cases of murders and manipulations with the people. Police and city authorities are helpless when it comes to revealing the evil and culprits behind it. In the center of this story is the writer Ivan Gajski, whose friend died under sketchy circumstances. Gajski reveals that those who most advocate democracy are not only the same involved in these crimes, but they also did some of the murders as a part of TV production. Gajski meets all kinds of characters through this quest of his, including the woman of his wife Sara, and professor Bošković who discovers the origins of present Evil - the dark past of European continent.
Witnesses
Penzioner
Es el año 1992 en Croacia, en una pequeña ciudad cercana a la frontera con Bosnia. En mitad de la noche, se comete un asesinato, resultando muerto el único vecino serbio de la localidad. El jefe de la policía local, una periodista y un ex combatiente que acaba de enterrar a su padre son los únicos que parecen interesados en el caso, pues para el resto de la población no es más que un "acto de guerra" más y tratan de persuadirles para que dejen sus investigaciones. Por otro lado, una familia croata da el último adiós al padre, muerto en la guerra. El hijo pequeño, jura venganza. (FILMAFFINITY)
Serafin, the Lighthouse Keeper's Son
Major
Growing up on an isolated island off the coast of Croatia during the reign of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, young Serafin Skoko's formative years were as repressive as they were lonely.
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.
Basketball Mozart
Narrator (voice)
Film is about one of all time best basketball player from Europe - Drazen Petrovic, who after successful career in European league played in the NBA. He died in 1993 in a car accident in Germany.
The Golden Years
Relja
The crash of student strike, also the crash of "Croatian Spring" in December of 1971, causes a violent separation of its three participants: A member of student leaders Jakov, his brother Mislav and Jakov's girlfriend Suncana. Jakov escapes abroad, while Mislav and Suncana remain in Zagreb believing that nothing bad can happen to them. Meanwhile, Mislav is getting arrested and Suncana stays alone. 20 years later, Jakov returns from Australia looking for a new beginning. He stays at Mislav's who married a girl from a rich family, after being released from prison and became a dentist. Soon, the brothers discover that the scelator from the past were not buried after all. The case of Suncana Krizic, who got killed in 1972 under mysterious circumstances, becomes Jakov's obsession in finding the truth.
Mor
Sue, the only daughter of a squire comes back from a fashionable European resort where she spent vacation. Arno, an impoverished nobleman wins her heart and they soon get engaged. But in the farm is the manager's son named Mor whom Sue spent her childhood with. Their reunion flare up old emotions, but soon strange things begin to happen. The stories about a werewolf start to circle around.
Charuga
Schlosinger
This film is based on the true story about Jovan Stanisavljevic alias Charuga, the bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia, Croatia.
Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing
Urednik
A young man is determined to find out what happened to his grandfather who was arrested and then disappeared in WW2, why did the new communist government label their family as traitors and why was his father killed many years later.
I Wish I Were a Pigeon
The story of German minority members who, after escaping from Wehrmacht, form a partisan unit named "Ernst Thalmann" in eastern Croatia. The focus is a family whose members fight on different sides of the barricade.
Promised Land
Sudac
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.
Three for Happiness
Ivan
A pretty factory girl falls for an ex con. He's still in love with his ex wife. Love triangle soon becomes even larger.
Premeditated Love Letters
Glumac - Cyrano
Musicologist and professor Kosor wakes up in a hospital. He has survived a serious car accident. In a bed next to his lies the amiable economist Gajski, whose wife Melita regularly visits him. This unusually beautiful woman is the first person that Kosor sees after he gains consciousness and is completely enchanted by her. Kosor becomes obsessed by Melita’s physical beauty and her trustworthy character and begins a risky game of writing and sending her anonymous love letters…
Endeavor
Dekan Akademije
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.
Southbound Train
Kukec
A power-cut in a great apartment building brings the tennants together.
High Voltage
Direktor
After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is supposed to participate in the construction of the first generator in the Rade Koncar factory. Because there aren't enough experts and materials in Yugoslavia, the factory counts on help from fellow communist countries, Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union. However, after the Inform Bureau's resolution this help is no longer available. Sonja experiences a great intimate disappointment because Stjepan, who she is in love with, supports Stalin.
El secreto de Tesla
Mark Twain
Cuenta la vida de Nikola Tesla, escritor del destino de la electricidad
Slow Motion
Fok
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 Four Seasons
The film is an omnibus consisting of three stories - "Usvojenje", "Ferije" and "Probni rok". We follow fragments of the lives of young girls from a social institution for children and young adults without parents. In the first story, a wealthy young couple wants to adopt a five-year-old girl, Zeljka. The emotionally undeveloped child has a hard time adapting to her new environment. In Ferije, fifteen-year-old Visnja spends her winter holidays in a gloomy home for young delinquents, where she experiences her first romance. The heroine of the third story is nineteen-year-old Branka who, after her graduation, tries to find a job and become independent from the social institutions she has lived in her entire life.
Bombing Process
In 1928 young Communist activist was arrested and put on trial for anti-state activity. Years later he became known as Tito, Communist president of Yugoslavia, and this TV-movie was made for the 50th anniversary of those events.
A Shot
Franjo Grgec
In a village of heterogeneous ethnic composition (populated by Serbs and Croats), the local hunter gets wounded by an accidental shot which stirs up passion among the two communities.
Doctor Mladen
SS Major
The story begins in 1941 and shows one of the people who which were actually, very brave and proudly fought against the Ustasha, Germans and other butchers, not related to that ideology was tied. The film is about Dr. Mladen Stojanovic legend of Kozara and Krajina, great man, humanist, friend, and finally the commander one of a the proud partisan detachment, which is that area brought for a moment bring much desired freedom.
Timon
A theater premiere of Timon of Athens ends with a rapturous applause from the audience, and Boris, the lead actor (Boris Buzančić), is congratulated for having played the role of his lifetime. Encouraged by the sense of his own worth, he starts a romantic affair with a prompter, spurring gossip in the theater. The ensemble embarks on a tour, but as their performances achieve more success, Boris is becoming less liked among his colleagues, and he begins to experience the fate of the character he is playing...
When You Hear the Bells
Maks
Partizan commisar, a Communist intellectual from Zagreb, must bring the group of Serb partizans in line.
Black Birds
WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
Illusion
Branko
The story of an inter-generational conflict between two brothers of completely different political and secular views.
The Seventh Continent
Diplomat
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.
Back of the Medal
Ognjenov prijatelj
A tense detective movie about Eva Ružić, an accountant in a large firm, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for embezzlement of public property.
The Key
Recepcioner
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 Sunrise
Kočničar Jura
Having learned of the love affair between his wife and his colleague, a train driver finds himself in a dilemma: only one move is enough to kill his opponent in a train accident that they've found themselves in.
The Dangerous Journey
Johan
In the last days of WW2 two children from former Yugoslavia manage to escape a Nazi concentration camp. They begin a long and dangerous journey home.
The Wedding of Mr. Marzipan
A satire on the false happiness provided by consumer goods and bourgeois rituals done in an eye-poppingly gorgeous, extremely artificial style that ingeniously mixes colour with black and white, and combines live action with animation and even bits of puppetry!
A Minute for Murder
Koh
An emigrant returning after many years, is killed while trying to clear his name of treason. Investigation produces several skeletons.
Adventure at the Door
Podvornik u vlaku
Story of the dream of a lonely woman lying mentally ill in a sanatorium.
The Emperor's New Clothes
Luda
The adaptation of Hans Cristian Andersen's tale filmed on a white background. It is also the first Croatian movie in color.
Operation
Kos
Psychological action drama about a group of partisans, ambushed by the enemy.
Three Quarters of the Sun
Kolega
A story of a group of men at a small frontier railway station who have been released from German concentration camps and are on their way home.
H-8...
Krešo
A bus and a truck are moving towards each other along a two-way traffic highway on a rainy day. At the very beginning we learn that a reckless driver of another car will cause them to collide while trying to pass the bus; we even learn what seats will spell doom for their occupants. The rest of the movie follows two streams of events on the bus and on the truck, getting us to know and like a wide variety of characters, wondering which ones will end up being casualties and holding breath for our favourites. The epilogue brings some more surprises...