Božidar Orešković
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 31, 1942
Place of Birth: Zagreb, Croatia
Known For
The Bonfires of Kapela
Based on an eponymous novel by Veljko Kovačević. the series is focused on historical events and personalities from the uprisings in Gorski Kotar and the Croatian Littoral in the Second World War.
The Horseman
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.
Wild Angels
A group of juvenile delinquents go to a coastal resort town after successful robbery.
How the War Started on My Island
At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.
Is It Clear, My Friend?
A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.
Sleep Sweet, My Darling
A bittersweet coming of age of Tomica Skrinjar, starting at the tail end of World War II in 1945.
A Shot
In a village of heterogeneous ethnic composition (populated by Serbs and Croats), the local hunter gets wounded by an accidental shot which stirs up passion among the two communities.
Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing
A young man is determined to find out what happened to his grandfather who was arrested and then disappeared in WW2, why did the new communist government label their family as traitors and why was his father killed many years later.
Three Poplars
The film was created based on the stories of Marino Zurl, head of humanitarian action of the weekly Arena newspapers, who from 1963 to 1971 was looking for the next of kin of children separated from their parents during World War II and taken to camps and shelters. Many of them later grew up in orphanages or foster families, like the three main characters of this film, Ana (Biserka Ipša), Nenad (Mustafa Nadarević) and Toma (Božidar Orešković). Each of them relates in a different way to the past and the possibility that, as young accomplished adults, they can finally solve the secret of their identity and meet members of their real families.
The Parting Song
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.
Filmography
as Joza, stražar u zatvoru
as Baćani
as Mrazović
as Zapovijednik
as Davor
as Joza
as Vinko Novak
as Boris Bašić
as Boris
as Tomo Livaja
as Dražen
as Braco Kovačić
as Klempo
as Brico
as Stjepo
as Brico
as Marko
as Tomo Bradić
as Tomo
as Riđan
as Klej
as Branko Macanović
as Ivan Sertić
as Ministar unutarnjih poslova