Tomislav Pinter

Film The Other Side of Welles portrays the life, work and intellectual heritage of Orson Welles in Yugoslavian federal unit "Socialist Republic of Croatia". Through the period of 25 years, he appeared as actor in several co productions made in Croatia (David and Goliath, Tartars, Austerlitz) - acted in few Yugoslavian film (Battle of Neretva, The Secret of Nicola Tesla) and directed two of his own film: The Trial and The Deep. As a Hollywood maverick, in Croatia he often found his shelter. Through the never before seen archive materials and the interviews with the people who worked with him, directors of this film, in the 90th anniversary of his birth and 20th of his passing, reveal the other side of Orson Welles

Un socorrista de un complejo turístico yugoslavo se enamora de una mujer que lucha contra la ocupación nazi del país. (FILMAFFINITY)

El mayor Wright (Telly Savalas) es un hombre duro y violento con una fe y lealtad a su país fuera de toda duda. Su misión actual consiste en desbaratar un complot alemán cuyo objetivo es llevar al poder a un poderoso grupo de generales nazis que actúan en nombre del III Reich. El comando lo forman doce presidiarios que sólo tienen dos posibilidades: la libertad o la muerte. Su objetivo: asaltar y destruir un convoy, que es el centro de operaciones de los conspiradores.

In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.

Pat Carlsson is a 14-year-old Swedish schoolgirl who though very young is very streetwise as she offers sex, for a price, to middle-aged attorney John Berg who can not resist the young girl. What starts as an immoral sexual escape, becomes a nightmare of tragedy and deception involving blackmail, kidnapping and murder.

Después de regresar de una misión en el norte de Italia, el mayor Wright recibe la orden de reclutar a un pelotón de soldados sentenciados a muerte o a cadena perpetua, para una misión suicida tras las líneas enemigas. Deben entrar en un monasterio francés para destruir un gas neurotóxico mortal que los nazis quieren utilizar en un nuevo misil de largo alcance. Además deberán rescatar a los seis brillantes científicos de los territorios ocupados que están siendo obligados a trabajar en el proyecto. Wright sabe que muchos no regresarán para contarlo.

A feuding but very wealthy married couple are planning their divorce while relaxing at luxury hotels in Yugoslavia. The husband decides he wants to get rid of his wife, so hires a hitman. However his wife also has the same planned for her husband, seducing one of her many lovers into doing the job. Should these attempted murders not succeed, the husband will have to carry on being blackmailed by his wife for his incestuous affair with his 16 year old daughter. Since the daughter has her own lethal romantic agenda, things don't go quite as planned.

Dos periodistas estadounidenses que trabajan en una publicación sensacionalista son enviados a Transilvania para que comprueben el rumor de que el monstruo de Frankenstein todavía está vivo. Llegan a un tranquilo pueblo y, mientras investigan la misteriosa desaparición de Elizabeth, una niña de siete años, conocen al doctor Kock.

Un asesino enmascarado que mata siempre mujeres jóvenes está sembrando el pánico en un pequeño pueblo canadiense, hasta que finalmente la policía descubre su identidad y consigue abatirle durante un tiroteo. Cundo todo parece que va a volver a la normalidad, comienzan a producirse nuevos asesinatos, todos ellos idénticos a los cometidos por el asesino de la máscara. La policía piensa que ahora se trata de un imitador, pero hay alguien que no está muy convencido con esa teoría.

"Heritage" - This three-part historical epic of the lives and misfortunes of the Vrhunc family in the former Yugoslavia is divided into the years of 1914, 1924, and 1944. In 1914, the wealthy Vrhunc patriarch owns valuable land and operates a lucrative mine. He is conservative and wants to hold on to the status quo, and so when the region breaks away from Hapsburg rule, he loses out. His wife, in the meantime, is a tragic figure who has an unhappy solution to her stifling existence with her husband and children. In part II, set in 1924, the fascists and communists are fighting for footholds among the population and in the government, and the Vrhunc family is torn apart because their own allegiances are divided between the two opposing extremes. In part III, the family suffers the most, as Nazi collaborators are rounded up and shot by Partisans, and chaos reigns.

Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.

Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for carrying pruning shears, she meets a young Yugoslav woman and goes with her to a Gypsy enclave where she's fought over, takes a lover, helps with the sordid entertainment at a bar, and returns home more dangerous than before. The film also tells parallel stories of Marilyn's daughter becoming a junior homemaker as the young immigrant practices her striptease.

This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life with three men she loved. Her life, torn between dreams and reality, is a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope and love.

The two enemies from war, Slovenian partisan Berk and German soldier Bitter, meet each other during holidays in Spain. Recalling the war through conversation, Berk remembers Anton, his fellow comrade he had spend the most time with.

A comedy mocking the self-management system - the workers become owners of a luxury hotel on the Adriatic coast.

A diabolical tale of romance, murder, and mistaken identity as a treacherous terrorist organization hunts an enemy agent with the intention of killing him, but instead they set their sights on the wrong man. Left in the wake of their mistaken pursuit is a trail of broken lives and brutal murders.

Recreación libre de los últimos días de la vida de Rodolfo de Habsburgo, heredero del trono austro-húngaro, centrada en su vida sexual. En contra de la voluntad de su padre, el emperador Francisco José, sus días transcurren en el libertinaje, en una permanente fiesta donde abundan los escándalos y las orgías; además, mantiene un largo amorío con una mujer de la nobleza rural húngara, muy inferior en clase a la suya, María Vetsera, junto con quien muriera 1889. Existen dos teorías sobre este suceso, conocido como el "incidente de Mayerling": por un lado, que se trata de un pacto suicida entre amantes, por otro, que se trató de un asesinato de corte político.

Two characters spend days in over-questioning themselves and arguing about the first and last matters of ephemeral human existence.

Young Linda Channing visits her fiancé Ian Faulkner at an old aristocratic residence near London. Here he witnesses several mysterious murders. There are no clues to these murders - only bloody corpses and the terrifying sound that always comes shortly before the murders. Inspector Mark Santini embarks on the investigation and slowly unfolds a story full of old wrongs and terrifying revelations...

¿De qué extraño ángel o demonio está hecha nuestra personalidad? Qué fuerzas y pasiones ingobernables llevan y traen nuestro yo por tortuosos caminos, más allá de los límites de nuestra conciencia? ¿Por qué el personaje de esta historia que ve cómo decae la sociedad burguesa, carece de energía para oponerse a su destrucción? El espectador de esta película se sentirá atraído por la cautivante genialidad del autor del libro

Esta película narra la batalla de Sutjeska (mayo 1943) - la más dura en la que participaron los partisanos yugoslavos, que fueron el principal movimiento de resistencia en la lucha contra las fuerzas del Eje en los Balcanes durante la II Guerra Mundial.

Lordan Zafranović's 1972 short film, based upon the 1956 short story The first step through the clouds (Pierwszy krok w chmurach) written by Marek Hłasko.

Five comedy vignettes: 1) Churchill, 2) Swinging London, 3) Tailors, 4) Stately Homes, 5) Tailors.

Marko vuelve de Estados Unidos, donde ha pasado unos cuantos años, deseoso de impresionar a los habitantes de su pueblo natal, pero al final todo se vuelve contra él.

Card cheats travel by cruise ship to the Adriatic coast to fleece a wealthy aristocrat.

A short film directed by Orson Welles based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. While actually completed, it is frequently cited as an unfinished film, though better described as a partially lost film due to the loss of film negatives. A restored and reconstructed version of the film, made by using the original script and composer's notes, premiered at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival alongside Othello as part of the pre-opening ceremonies.

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.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en enero de 1943, cuatro tropas diferentes se enfrentan en el país yugoslavo: los leales al Rey, los partisanos de Tito, el Ejército alemán y sus aliados italianos. Un puente sobre el río Neretva es de vital importancia como medio de comunicación para las tropas partisanas. En una táctica de desorientación, los mismos partisanos vuelan el puente, y en torno a él se desencadena una cruenta batalla...

A beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her.

The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church, and their adventures continue.

Every Sunday, lonely bachelor and refined judge Mladen goes to play chess with his friend, sculptor Fedji. Slowly, he engages in a love affair with Neda, Fedia's wife, and almost invisibly, a love triangle forms. Chess board is the central part of the film, as moves on the board reflect emotions of the characters.

A divorced journalist Marko Požgaj starts his working day by taking his son to the school. During the day many thoughts and images pass through his mind - the memories of childhood, ex-wife, current girlfriend, but mostly his father who died in a war.

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.

Episodic WWII drama that follows a Yugoslav man through the war as he goes from witness to victim to aggressor.

The managers of a textile enterprise use various scams to obtain all kinds of personal benefits, until the machinations exposed.

The Beauty of the Adriatic was created as a promotional tourist film, but through its unusual and even bizarre formal devices it overcomes the promotional function. The narrator of the film is constantly communicating with the viewer, exclaims and inserts jokes, and we also see him in the film as a guide entertaining us with various gestures and movements. In the film there are also interspersed humorous animated scenes, an interview with Hamlet, poetic sequences and stylized scenes such as one where the camera is "looking for" the lost guide.

In order to gather informations about high-ranking collaborationist official, the resistance movement sends a girl to spy on him. She uses the cover of illiterate chambermaid from the country. In the beginning nobody is suspicious, but her cover would be endangered when the official's daughter starts to teach her reading.

An unfinished comedy about a beauty and sailors set in an island in the Adriatic Sea.