Lordan Zafranović Movies

Trials and tribulations of a Croatian communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after the Second World War.

One summer afternoon, three old desperadoes violently shatter a pure and innocent love.

Summer noon, solstice, pilot’s love under an olive tree and when everything is at its zenith – nature and people explode.

Documentary about the life and work of Ivan Martinac (1938-2005), avant-garde & experimentalist filmmaker from Split, Croatia.

Experimental short.

Unreleased film based on the book Ostrvo Balkan by Vidosav Stevanovic about the Bosnian War and the ethnic nationalism which led to it.

The dance school in Split and maestro Juti - a legend of several generations who passed their "first waltz" at his school.

On a hot summer afternoon in a city courtyard, a young man amuses himself by aiming air guns at random targets. The film examines the roots and...

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,...

The Focus is the film about easy death on the Mediterranean sun.

This is an omnibus consisting of three stories, all of which deal with deviations of the human psyche. In the story "Waltz", we learn about the first...

Based on the novel of Arsen Diklić which describes the horror’s of concentration camp Jasenovac.

A celebrated theatre director’s perfect life unravels when his wife’s secret lover exposes the hollowness beneath his success, leading to...

Compressing one idle day in the life of a young artist by rotating the camera through his room, a sort of a self-portrait of Lordan Zafranović...

The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a...

A lighthouse keeper lives on an isolated island together with his wife, ailing father and retarded sister. News of a serial killer stalking the...

This film tells the story about the concentration camp run by Ustashas and was made on the 40th anniversary of the inmates' escape from the camp.

A married couple from Germany, middle-aged Manfred and his much younger wife Meyra, who are originally from Zagreb, spend their vacation on the...

A couple meet and walk down the streets of Split all the way to the shore. This is the second film Zafranović ever made and the oldest preserved.

An experiment with 'anti-language' in detail (in composition, in changing plans, in exposition, etc.). Proof that the general rhythm and those...