Movies and TvShows featuring "dalmatia" theme.
The Priest's Children is a comedy movie that tells the story of a Catholic priest living on a beautiful Dalmatian island. The priest, faced with the declining birth rate on the island, resorts to unconventional methods to increase fertility. The story takes a satirical approach to highlight the struggles and challenges faced by the priest and the absurd situations that arise. With elements of tragicomedy and dark comedy, the movie explores themes of clericalism, Catholicism, and contraception in a comedic manner.
A group of young men rampage all day through the streets of an Adriatic port make love, wrangle over lunch, drink, finally steal a bus and is a burst of destructiveness drive it over the cliffs into the sea from which in surrealist fashion they are resurrected.
In 1944, 28,000 Dalmatian Croats escape war-torn Europe by living in a communist model village in the Egyptian desert, showcasing the future Yugoslavia.
A TV reporter goes to Vis to film the story about a driving instructor and his student.
A Partisan unit goes into battle with the enemy twice stronger, somehow resists detachment to attack deep into the night, where the fraud are captured combatants from all units and thrown to the terrible torture and eventually murder.
The funeral in his native village evokes the main character's reminiscences from the childhood, but the bygone time exist only in his memories.
A German family Keller arrives to the coastal village to spend summer holidays with their Croatian friends. Horst Keller and Roger Katushic were friends ever since Karl May's film adaptations took place there. Their children were friends for years, too, and they look forward to the reunion. Fantasizing about free life and "cowboys & Indians" adventures in the canyon of the Cetina river, the boys go there without knowing that the three cruel Chetniks who had just escaped from prison hide there.
The town of Split in the 1930s during Italian occupation. A boy torn between kid's games and sexual awakening finds more about the latter at the nearby whorehouse who works non-stop.
Hallo, Munich is a documentary short that explores the experiences of guest workers in Munich, focusing on the stories of those from Germany and Croatia. The film sheds light on the challenges faced by these individuals and the impact of their migration on their lives.
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.
Man of the World is a comedy movie set in a small town in Dalmatia. The story revolves around a charming womanizer who captivates the hearts of the women in the town. With his smooth-talking ways, he navigates through various escapades, leading to comical situations and unexpected twists.
The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resistence movement of Communists is dedicated to sabotaging and ending the occupation. When a wealthy young man joins the resistence, he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a spy for the Italians. As a result of his liaison and her activity, they are both executed by a Communist comrade - a previous friend. The comrade is dedicated to the hard-line policies of the resistence, until he himself falls in love with the daughter of a bourgeois landowner on the island - a landowner who has collaborated with the Italians. Neither the Italian occupying army (one officer is shown in an attempted rape scene) nor the resistence fighters are stereotyped forces for good or evil, but all are equally subject to the dehumanizing effects of war.
In a small town on a Dalmatian island in Croatia, the spirit of Marshal Tito haunts the residents. As rumors spread and the town's mayor tries to capitalize on the ghostly presence, a police officer embarks on an investigation to uncover the truth. This absurd comedy explores themes of communism, capitalism, socialism, and the legacy of Titoism in post-Yugoslavia.
The story is set in a small Dalmatian town. Soon after the death of a local nobleman, a girl who worked as a servant in his house, gets pregnant. Even though the father's identity remains unknown, the whole neighborhood saw a naked man jumping down from her window on that same night when the nobleman died. Local teacher who lives in that house, falls in love with the girl who decides to tell him the truth about the "naked man".
'Malo Misto' lives its own life, but not far behind the times. Hotel manager Roko Prč strives to organise tourism, so he introduces the first nudist beach. His wife Anđa brings two of her cousins from the Dalmatian hinterland and demands Roko to hire them. One of them, a young man named Ikan, earns the attention of a beautiful Swedish tourist. From Chile to Malo Misto returned Tonči, nicknamed Servantes, of course, without any money. He fell on the back of his hardworking aunt Keka, who even without him has enough problems of her own. Servantes also experiences an unexpected romance.
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.
The year is 1940, Croatian coast, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Jakov, a poor peasant from hinterland, and his daughter Mala, go to the city, trying to find a job to repay a debt...
A documentary about the Varos district in Sibenik, Croatia, which once was a home to Arsen Dedic, Vice Vukov and Miso Kovac - three singers who marked 50 years of pop music in former Yugoslavia.
Handcuffs is a powerful drama set in rural Yugoslavia during the communism era. It tells the story of a traditional wedding that takes a dark turn when a young peasant woman is raped by a member of the secret police. The film explores the themes of power, oppression, and resilience in a tightly woven plot.