Zagrebians

A life in a small coastal town in Dalmatia, Croatia, seen through the prism of the local chronicler-amateur and his writings, during the periods before and after WW2.

The tragic characters of losers from the beginning of the 20th century are a precious record of the era.

'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.

It is about difficult times in Croatian family in Istria under Italian rule and the beginning of Italian fascism.

An unknown traveler disembarks from a steamship on a rainy day in a small and deserted coastal town, where he will spend the night and find a girl who will remain in his heart forever.

The drama questions what would happen in private and professional terms to a man who would start telling his friends and work colleagues everything he really thinks.

The story of the Dubrovnik landowner Nikša Prokulić, who fiercely opposes romance between his daughter Jela and the Czech officer Marek, member of the Austro-Hungarian army that occupied their city in 1814, after the departure of the French. The story of the final downfall of the Republic of Dubrovnik thus also becomes the story of the agony of an ancient aristocratic family.

During the days of carnival festivities, two gentlemen from Split become victims of their own ambitions. While looking for a husband for the widow Redja, Piero gets entangled in his own webs, while his friend Niko does everything he can to avoid getting a mother-in-law along with his future wife.

The arrival of the first tourists brought unrest among the residents of the small, melancholic Dalmatian town. Some of them were tempted by the possibility of easy earnings, but besides mutual disputes, tourism also brought them encounters with people they were not accustomed to.