Branko Meničanin
Acting
Biography
Branko "Pjer" Meničanin (1964) is a Croatian actor, whose extensive experience includes appearances in film, television, animation dubbing, and over eighty theater roles.
Born: May 3, 1964
Place of Birth: Karlovac, Croatia
Known For
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.
The Diary of the Great Perica
A sequel to One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away (1970) set in 1964.
The Last Socialist Artefact
A businessman and an engineer arrive in a small town to restore an abandoned factory and manufacture a discontinued turbine for a mysterious client.
God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen
The adventures of a small town Croatian family during the 1960s. The decade will leave eternal marks on all of their members, but most of the story focuses on the youngest one, a boy, Frula, who discovers the love and fashion of the time.
The Priest's Children
Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.
Even Pigs Go to Heaven
A road trip comedy about a pig that is about to lose her virginity amid a brewing war.
What a Country!
A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president.
One Shot
One accidental shot will intertwine the destinies of two young women - Anita, an inspector who gets on amazingly in professional and quite well in her private life and Petra, a young woman whose everyday life would surely be simpler if she did not have to take care of her alcoholic mother. The investigation on the accidental shot will intertwine their destinies at a moment when they both find that they are pregnant. A huge turning point in their lives, each in her own world and equally left on their own, these two women will, step by step, become close during the investigation.
The Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside
After being repeatedly denied her requests for a vacation by her sexist boss, a young woman finally explodes.
Charuga
This film is based on the true story about Jovan Stanisavljevic alias Charuga, the bandit who became a legend in post-WW1 Slavonia, Croatia.
Filmography
as The Janitor
as Ruda
as Vidas
as Inspektor Matić
as Grobar
as (segment "Praznik demokracije")
as Kebalo
as Anin brat
as Ivan
as Pekar #2
as Šljaker
as Radnik
as Četnik II
as Prodanović
as Angry Driver