Milka Podrug-Kokotović

TV movie made for New Year’s Eve.

Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. However, when the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the Independent State of Croatia. The Italian friend becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish or Serbian parentage or anti-fascist leanings, is killed.

It tells about mutual conflicts and the decline of the once rich and prominent Zagreb family Dombrovski. In this large family, women have always been in charge of decisions. The plot takes place immediately after the death of the founder and owner of the company, Vladimir Dombrovski.

Jelena, a woman of character, rules an inn in an isolated place in the countryside. She lives with her two sons: Martin and Jakov. Martin has been married to Kata for 5 years, but never succeeded in having a child. Jakov sleeps with his mother in postures suggesting incest, but he is in love with Kata. Each night he hears her cries, the sexual acts with her husband inevitably finish with violence. One day, Jakov can't stand anymore, he leaves, and Kata is found dead the next morning. Two characters arrive then : an old man, who turns to be the father of Martin ; he settles and declares being returned to die here. And a girl, that Martin will keep as his new wife.

Old woman was taken by her son to live in the big city. She finds adapting difficult and longs for return home.

Three middle-aged people spend their vacation in a house on the Adriatic island. The marriage of Eta and her older husband Vladan gradually proves to be troubled, while the third person, doctor Ivan, is the only one who knows that Ela struggles with incurable disease...

The last play that Miroslav Krleza ever wrote. Especially interesting is the directorial concept, which sets the play in the space of the old Dubrovnik fortress, and used the audience as semi-active participants in the event. Two acting ensembles played for different audience with a short time lag.

Whilst trying to take a break from reality by visiting Mount Srđ nearby Dubrovnik, Ana and her boyfriend Ivan are accosted by Montenegrin paramilitary troops of the Yugoslav People's Army. Ivan is killed and Ana is brutally raped. Years later, whilst looking through the footage of the invasion of Dubrovnik recorded by an amateur reporter named Čačo, she recognizes her rapist, and decides to publicaly shame him during her exhibition.

In an island town, a professor pensioned before his time, together with his wife, takes care of the hundred year old Maddona Makantuna, a dispossessed land owner.

Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1890. A group of high-school students run away on an adventure that ends in scandal. The ringleader, Gusta, is expelled from school and sent to stay with his uncle in rural Turopolje. Here, a totally new world opens up to him, where the internal tragedies of the people are played out against the castle of Brezovica and a small town of wooden-framed houses. People end up in this idyllic exile because of some previous "sin" and try then to make the best of their lives there. But memories of the outside world impinge on their happiness.

A story about life adversities of an old emigrant who returns from America to his native village.

Apart from the fact that he feels neither as a citizen nor as a peasant, nothing binds the main protagonist to his place of birth in this typical Simunovic work about homo duplex, deeply contaminated with a feeling of pain.