Ivan Herceg

'Lara's Choice: The lost prince' is a 2012 Croatian movie based on the popular television show 'Lara's choice'. The plot is a direct continuation of the first season finale.

Inspired by true events of the 1989 Czech and Slovak Velvet Revolution and Václav Havel's controversial release of 23000 prisoners. In addition to the story of three families affected by communist persecution, the film Amnesty also deals with the uprising of prisoners in Leopoldov, which required military intervention. The uprising was preceded by a broad amnesty granted by Václav Havel in January 1990, just a few days after his election as Czechoslovak president.

Wanting to publish their first solo album, an up and coming rock band decides to give up on following the unwritten "Rock and Roll Code" in order to play a few cheesy love songs for the upcoming wedding of Siniša, a corrupt and violent police officer. What they don't know is that Siniša's bride-to-be is none other than Anja, the ex-girlfriend of their founder Stream, and that the ceremony won't be just a wedding, nor merely a moneymaking opportunity, but, rather, a high-stakes rescue operation, started by a reignited flame.

Whilst working on the case of a porn smuggling ring, private investigator and war veteran Martin decides to watch some of the films the police had confiscated, partially out of loneleyness and partially out of wanting to find out more information about the people involved in it. However, when he recognizes a familiar face in one of the films, he decides to travel to Belgrade, wanting to apologize to the actress for the trauma he caused her during the Croatian War of Indpendance.

Faced with the horrors of war, ten different people desperately try to find some connection to society and the human spirit, however, in the face of the conflict and anguish that surrounds their every waking moment, they gradually start loosing their faith in humanity as the pain they witness, and have to go through themselves, seems unending.

This show is located in the picturesque Oštrovac, a village on the edge of the national park. Katarina, Tomislav and Krešo will get a million euros from his grandfather - but only if they spend a year in his ruined house in Oštrovac. Otherwise, the money belongs to the locals.

Larin izbor is a Croatian telenovela created by Jelena Popović Volarić and written by Tomislav Hrpka. The series premiered on September 4, 2011 on Nova TV. It has been sold to over seventeen countries worldwide.