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Eduard Galić

Born August 11, 1936 · Trogir, Croatia, Yugoslavia (age 90)

Eduard Galić is a distinguished Croatian film and television director and screenwriter, recognized as one of the most prolific figures in Croatian cinema. His career spans over five decades, during which he has directed numerous television dramas, series, documentaries, and feature films. Notable works include the television series Nepokoreni grad (The Unconquered City, 1981), which portrays the …

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Sixth Bus

Sixth Bus · 2022

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.

Murtal's Case

Murtal's Case · 1976

MovieTV MovieDrama

The protagonist is a young man, a future scientist, who plans his future life with mathematical precision, but the calculation betrays him.

Building Up the Courage

Building Up the Courage · 1966

Building Up the Courage

MovieTV MovieDrama

In Collecting Courage, the second of six parts of his drama cycle Dialogues, screenwriter Ivo Stivicic dealt with the relationship of a young, unambitious and timid factory worker to the people around him, from girlfriends and work colleagues to hooligans from the cafe environment.

Christmas Fairy Tale

Christmas Fairy Tale · 1992

Christmas Fairy Tale

MovieTV MovieComedy

TV movie made for New Year’s Eve.

Lead Communion

Lead Communion · 1995

MovieTV MovieDrama

On the eve of the war, a former army officer Pavle is torn between the reality that forces him to decide and choose a side, and his own life dilemmas. He becomes increasingly preoccupied with morbid thoughts which leads his life to a tragic epilogue.

The Last Cheers

The Last Cheers · 1976

The Last Cheers

MovieTV MovieDrama

A story about an old man who fights against physical and spiritual weakness that is overcoming him more and more.

The Last of the Stipancics

The Last of the Stipancics · 1968

The Last of the Stipancics

MovieTV MovieDrama

Eduard Galić’s movie based on the book by Vjenceslav Novak.

A Confession You Didn't Deserve

A Confession You Didn't Deserve · 1999

A Confession You Didn't Deserve

MovieTV MovieDrama

The usual atmosphere of a standard literary evening turns into a harsh drama of the conscience of the protagonist who took part in the betrayal and liquidation of his father in the World War II, which ended not so long ago.

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Sixth Bus

Sixth Bus · 2022

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.

Director

Murtal's Case

Murtal's Case · 1976

MovieTV MovieDrama

The protagonist is a young man, a future scientist, who plans his future life with mathematical precision, but the calculation betrays him.

Director

Building Up the Courage

Building Up the Courage · 1966

Building Up the Courage

MovieTV MovieDrama

In Collecting Courage, the second of six parts of his drama cycle Dialogues, screenwriter Ivo Stivicic dealt with the relationship of a young, unambitious and timid factory worker to the people around him, from girlfriends and work colleagues to hooligans from the cafe environment.

Director

Christmas Fairy Tale

Christmas Fairy Tale · 1992

Christmas Fairy Tale

MovieTV MovieComedy

TV movie made for New Year’s Eve.

Director

Lead Communion

Lead Communion · 1995

MovieTV MovieDrama

On the eve of the war, a former army officer Pavle is torn between the reality that forces him to decide and choose a side, and his own life dilemmas. He becomes increasingly preoccupied with morbid thoughts which leads his life to a tragic epilogue.

Director

The Last Cheers

The Last Cheers · 1976

The Last Cheers

MovieTV MovieDrama

A story about an old man who fights against physical and spiritual weakness that is overcoming him more and more.

Director

The Last of the Stipancics

The Last of the Stipancics · 1968

The Last of the Stipancics

MovieTV MovieDrama

Eduard Galić’s movie based on the book by Vjenceslav Novak.

Director

A Confession You Didn't Deserve

A Confession You Didn't Deserve · 1999

A Confession You Didn't Deserve

MovieTV MovieDrama

The usual atmosphere of a standard literary evening turns into a harsh drama of the conscience of the protagonist who took part in the betrayal and liquidation of his father in the World War II, which ended not so long ago.

Director

Black Birds

Black Birds · 1967

WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.

Writer

On Sale

On Sale · 1989

MovieTV MovieDrama

A 1988 Serbo-Croatian language drama film written and directed by Eduard Galić, starring Miljenko Brlecic, Željko Duvnjak and Špiro Guberina.

Director

Horvat's Choice

Horvat's Choice · 1985

Horvat's Choice

It is 1918, the evening of The Great War. Austro-Hungarian empire is collapsing, and all around Croatia there are outlaw deserters, fighting in forests. A city journalist decides to become a country schoolteacher, just to find some peace in that restless political situation. But, neither the village is safe from the militaristic policy of the imperial goverment.

Director

Old Men

Old Men · 2001

MovieTV MovieComedy

Two old fisherman manage to invite two young tourists on a boat trip. Even though they don't understand each other, they set out on their dream adventure.

Director

For Good Old Times

For Good Old Times · 2018

For Good Old Times

MovieComedyDrama

Two childhood friends face adulthood in different ways. Life is still a game for them – girls, football, parties. But the choices they make will determine the course of their lives and put their friendship to the test. In the Balkans, every generation has their own reasons to leave. This is a story about a generation caught in the transition from socialism to capitalism, marked by a brutal war.

Director

Kvit posla

Kvit posla · 1983

MovieTV MovieDrama

After a twenty-year absence, psychiatrist returns to his hometown, where a meeting with old acquaintances and a former love will lead him to a life-threatening situation.

Director

A Shokac Woman

A Shokac Woman · 1996

MovieTV MovieDrama

A 1996 Croatian language drama film directed by Eduard Galić, starring Vlasta Knezović, Ivo Gregurevic and Edo Perocevic.

Director

Dramolett by Chiribilli

Dramolett by Chiribilli · 1972

Dramolett by Chiribilli

MovieTV MovieComedy

A farcical parody about a group of upstarts who, in the imaginary seaside town of Cipoli, clash with the Venetian cops, led by the comical captain Trapollo.

Director

Svetozar Markovic

Svetozar Markovic · 1980

Svetozar Markovic

MovieHistoryDrama

A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social change, which set foundations for socialist ideals in his homeland.

Director

The Silk, the Shears

The Silk, the Shears · 1987

The Silk, the Shears

MovieDramaTV Movie

Based on the memoirs of Irena Vrkljan. Through reminiscences of Mala and her sisters, we meet her family and her contemporary intellectual elite.

Writer

Tomo Bakran

Tomo Bakran · 1978

MovieTV MovieDrama

A projection of the situation in monarchist Yugoslavia after the infamous Proclamation and the Law on the Protection of the State, when repression and police violence stifled any progressive idea. Inspired by some literary works of Miroslav Krleza.

Director

Hawk

MovieDocumentaryHistory

A documentary on the life and death of Vladimir "Hawk" Đerek, a Croatian soldier whose perseverance in the face of the toughest challenges inspired many of his comrades during the events of the Croatian War of Independence told through exclusive archival footage and eyewitness accounts.

Director

The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh

The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh · 1988

The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh

MovieDramaTV Movie

Television adaptation of the play "The Ballad of Petrica Kerempuh", based on the famous collection of Kajkavian songs by Miroslav Krleža.

Director

Music in Grožnjan

Music in Grožnjan · 1975

Music in Grožnjan

MovieDocumentaryMusic

A look at the music folklore legacy and instruments used in the small Istrian town of Groznjan.

Director

Benedictine Nuns

Benedictine Nuns · 1971

Benedictine Nuns

MovieDocumentary

Director

White Angels

White Angels · 1971

MovieDocumentary

A film about the children’s choir “Vatroslav Lisinski” from the town of Janjevo in Kosovo.

Director

Journey to Vucjak

Journey to Vucjak · 1986

Journey to Vucjak

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

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.

Director

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla · 1977

This series follows Tesla's life from his childhood in Simljan (near Gospic) in nowadays Croatia (then Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, part of Austria-Hungary) to his death in New York, USA.

Director

Unconquered City

Unconquered City · 1982

Unconquered City

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

In April 1941 Germans occupied Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, and installed a Quisling government. This series, partly based on true events and persons and partly on fiction, covers the activities of the Resistance movement, led by Communists.

Director

Our Father's Diary

Our Father's Diary · 1969

Our Father's Diary

The world of small people from the suburbs and the melancholic atmosphere of anxious everyday life that senses imminent catastrophe. While they see no way out of social troubles, these good-natured and somewhat eccentric loners find compensation in pubs, movie theaters and sex. Original title: DNEVNIK OČENAŠEKA

Writer

Svetozar Markovic

Svetozar Markovic

Svetozar Markovic

A biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social change, which set foundations for socialist ideals in his homeland.

Director

The Foreigner

Apart from the fact that he feels neither as a citizen nor as a peasant, nothing binds the main protagonist to his place of birth in this typical Simunovic work about homo duplex, deeply contaminated with a feeling of pain.

Director

The Man Himself

The Man Himself · 1970

The Man Himself

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.

Writer