The best Boris Buzančić’s drama movies

Boris Buzančić

Boris Buzančić

13/03/1929- 09/10/2014
Today we present the best Boris Buzančić’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Boris Buzančić’s movies.

H-8...

H-8...
8.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/07/1958
  • Character: Novinar Boris
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...

In Four Rows

In Four Rows
4.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 07/12/1999
  • Character: Senjak
The story about the Bleiburg massacre, seen from a Croatian Home Defenders point of view.

The Return

The Return
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 05/07/1979
  • Character: Šjor Berto
Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths under suspicion of being resistance sympathizers. Outraged townsfolk organize the siege of police station.

Partisan Stories

Partisan Stories
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 26/07/1960
  • Character: (segment "Povratak")
The film has two stories. Story 1: A group f partisans, fighting against the enemy and harsh winter storm, comes to the village where locals are hostile to them. Story 2: One night during the war, a daughter of railway station chief helps the wounded partisan commander to escape; however Germans discover her deeds, and kill her.

Protest

Protest
8.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/07/1967
  • Character: Šef pravne službe poduzeća
A man cannot bear the superficiality of human relationships, and when his best friend lets him down, he commits suicide by jumping off a skyscraper.

Timon

Timon
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1973
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...

Russian Meat

Russian Meat
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1997
Determined to find her sister's killers, Ida Palamar decides to become a prostitute in an elite Zagreb brothel where the murder probably took place. The brothel is run by Vuk, violent and drug-crazed arms smuggler, protected by the police. Ida's only ally in her quest is a young bouncer.

The Tamburitza Players

The Tamburitza Players
7.9/10
It’s the winter of 1942. A freight train on the section of the Slavonian railway Vinkovci-Nova Gradiska is under a special Gestapo escort. Fleeing misfortune and evil brought by war, the last wagon is the place of encounter of politicians, war smugglers, deserters and tamburitza players.

The Siege

The Siege
6.6/10
A group of partisans is under siege, surrounded by strong German forces. Some of them remember the events that preceded the siege. This is an omnibus of three intertwined stories.

In Conflict

In Conflict
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1963
The conflict between a reactionary surgeon and his progressive son over new methods of surgery.

Officer with a Rose

Officer with a Rose
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/05/1987
  • Character: Franjo Gostruški
It is 1945 in Zagreb, and everyone is settling into the new regime following the disturbances of the war. Matilda is a wealthy widow of a war hero and has an apartment so spacious that she is required to take a boarder. Fortunately for her, the handsome young Lt. Horvat, the communist housing officer, has taken a fancy to her and has assigned his fiancee to be Matilda's new roommate. Where Matilda is soft and rounded, Lilijana is hard, skinny, and given to revolutionary pronouncements rather than tender endearments. The lieutenant loves them both, though he naturally finds Matilda more attractive. His situation is simplified when Lilijana, though pregnant, is transferred to another post. However, his commander is horrified that he has a lover in addition to his fiancee and demands that he choose whether to continue his career or continue his affair.

Nights and Days

Nights and Days
6/10
A partisan battalion who was surrounded from all sides brings up decision to enter the city, so that the fighters could rest and recover. Due to fear of one of the partisans, the enemy discovers their plan, but fails to sabotage it.

The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/06/1979
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.

That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles

That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/04/1979
  • Character: Branko Sečan
A student of architecture from Zagreb believes that the new model of city can meet the need of its citizens. However, his professors, the corrupt business environment and even the parents of his fiancée stand on his way.

It Was Not Useless

It Was Not Useless
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/02/1957
  • Character: Jure
Boris Buzančić plays an idealistic young doctor who is assigned a nearly deserted village. The backwards residents at first resent Buzančić's new-fangled methods. Gradually, he proves his worth and wins their confidence. The clincher comes when Buzančić rids the community of a despotic villain.

The Way to Paradise

The Way to Paradise
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1970
  • Character: Profesor Bernardo Leander
A man and his conscience are shown on their way to paradise as the only illusion that saves him the present civilization's hell. However, it is the same people and same events that await him there.

The Pine Tree in the Mountain

The Pine Tree in the Mountain
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 15/09/1971
  • Character: Ivo Jurica
Communist party commissar Ivica is sent to the lowland village to monitor the local partisan squad. Despite their disagreements he befriends their leader Dikan and they plan to evacuate the chief headquarters. Dikan also sees the opportunity to have his personal revenge on an enemy officer, responsible for death of one of his men.

Adventure at the Door

Adventure at the Door
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/07/1961
  • Character: Ženskaroš
Story of the dream of a lonely woman lying mentally ill in a sanatorium.

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