Žarko Potočnjak
Birthday: Born in 1946-02-03 in Pakrac, Croatia
Deathday: 2021-10-21
Žarko Potočnjak was a Croatian and Yugoslavian actor, known for The Rat Savior (1976), The Glembays (1988) and Crime at School (1982). He was married to Asja Jovanović. He died on October 21, 2021 in Zagreb, Croatia.
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Putovanje u Vučjak
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With WWI finally ending in 1918, Croatian journalist Kresimir Horvat travels from Zagreb to his village of Vucjak in Zagorje and becomes a witness of history as Austria-Hungarian Empire dissolves....
Zamke
Character: Križar
The series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948....
Lažeš, Melita
Character: Slikar Sjekira
"You're lying, Melita" is a Croatian television miniseries from 1983. about a little girl who thinks there's nothing wrong with choosing not to tell the truth. Based on a short novel by Ivan Kušan....
Inspektor Vinko
Character: Čaplja
Inspector Vinko is a comedy miniseries starring Ivica Vidović, Zoja Odak and Mustafa Nadarević....
Sam čovjek
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An adaptation of Ivo Kozarčanin's novel of the same name and consists of four episodes. The protagonist is a young official named Valentin, and the plot shows his childhood, growing up and a disastrous marriage that will end in murder....
Movie Credits
Bombing Process
Character: Božičković
In 1928 young Communist activist was arrested and put on trial for anti-state activity. Years later he became known as Tito, Communist president of Yugoslavia, and this TV-movie was made for the 50th anniversary of those events....
Play Me a Love Song
Character: Strujin otac
The main character Struja (Stream) is an unyielding rock musician in a demo-band called When Dirty Harry Met Dirty Sally. Struja would do anything to gather money to record the album as long as it doesn't involve giving up his rock musician beliefs. However, playing pop songs at weddings seems to be the only way out, and the rest of the bend - Struja's best friend and keyboard player Mario (Ivan Duricic), Deni, a handsome singer and bass player (Ivan Glowatzky) and Zlajfa, an indifferent drummer...
Long Dark Night
Character: Alojz
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war government, and his eventual downfall....
The Glembays
Character: Puba Fabriczy
The Glembays of Zagreb are a rich family cursed with tragedies and haunted by sinister past. Leone Glembay, a rebelious son of the family patriarch, is becoming disgusted with hypocrisy, perversion and crime that runs in the family....
That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles
Character: Maks
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....
Visitors from the Galaxy
Character: Robert
Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is Andra, who shows affection for Robert, which does not please his girlfriend, Biba. A monster, Mumu, has arrived together with the visitors from space....
Sixth Bus
Character: Edo
A young American is trying to find a man from her past, but he is never to be found, during the largest conflict on European soil since World War II – the battle of Vukovar. It is a search of identity and truth at a place where truth is selective, elusive, and even feared. A quest for faith, connection, and redemption simmers beneath the search....
Evening Bells
Character: Kruno
Trials and tribulations of a Croatian communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after the Second World War....
In the Camp
Character: Feldkaplan Anton Boltek
Piano player is commissioned as an officer in WW1 Austro-Hungarian army. His sensitive soul is being tormented by war atrocities. And then he is ordered to hang an old lady......
Go, Yellow
Character: Kruno
Ivek and Kruno are best friends, both passionate supporters of a suburban Zagreb football club. When a nouveau riche businessman Čabraja enters the club's managing board with ambitious plans, and soon becomes the club's president, the two friends are divided. While Kruno is enthusiastic over the club's newly found success, Ivek is distrustful towards Čabraja and does not approve of his shady methods. Their friendship becomes increasingly strained....
Friends
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An absurd combination of circumstances turns two idle young men into fugitives from the law....
Libertas
Character: Lukarević
The film is set in mid-16th century, at a time when the entire eastern Mediterranean is dominated by two great empires, the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, with the small but wealthy maritime republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik) managing to maintain its independence through diplomatic agreements....
A Summer to Remember
Character: Zubar
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. ...
The Doctor of Craziness
Character: Ignjac Dobrohotić
All kinds of patients roam through waiting room of a psychiatrist whose life motto is: everybody are crazy until is proved the other way....
Tressette: A Story of an Island
Character: Šime
Three friends in desperate search for the fourth player of the card game called tressette....
Keep Calm and Snap
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The Prišt brothers are at a crossroads, preparing for their acting studies. Krešo, the older brother, has a hump and too much confidence. The other brother, Kruno, who can’t properly pronounce some words, finds out he has failed his entrance exam at the Faculty of Forestry and his girlfriend has left him. They chose their neighbour Črček, who lives in the same building, to supervise their preparations for studying acting. Črček is one of those characters who can’t do anything right, but at the s...
The Horseman
Character: Fratar
The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam....
Slow Motion
Character: Svećenik
A 40 year old former football star and idol of his generation feels that there's a gap between him and the rest of his peers. In order to cross divides over, he makes 20th anniversary party for his school friends he graduated with, only to find out that things are more complicated than he first thought....
New Year's Eve Robbery
Character: Franjo Matek Fantom
Lifelong rivalry between police inspector and professional criminal escalates on New Years Eve, 1990....
Resting Room
Character: Pijani gost
By using the motifs of Krleza's play "Adam and Eve", written in 1922, director Tomislav Radic questions a similar pattern of male-female relations in a trivial, contemporary context. With Krleza's lines, Radic counterpoints almost documentary sequences from life, showing how Krleza's youthful distaste for the bourgeois concept of "love" can be actualized in a fundamentally different social environment....
The Case of Graduate Wagner
Character: Franjo Puceljski
This drama premiered in Zagreb in 1935. The plot shows a young man from a well-to-do bourgeois family facing the anger of his parents over his absences from high school, behind which stands his forbidden love with a girl of humble working-class background....
The Case of Filip Franjic
Character: Miško Palec
Due to idealism, honesty and resoluteness, a driver in a transport company faces numerous problems in his living and working environment....