Zvonimir Torjanac
Acting
Biography
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Known For
The Village Teacher
The protagonist is a young man, a former athlete, now a gym teacher. He is essentially a disappointed idealist who distances himself from the world and himself with irony and self-irony. His indifferent attitude towards life undergoes a slight change when he meets the headmistress of the rural school where he also teaches.
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa is a kids TV show, based on the novel The Mysterious Boy by Ivan Kušan. It is a story about a boy who for some time lives in the belief that he is to blame for the death of a friend, a peer, who drowned in the Sava river. In order to cover up his death, the boy takes his name (because he had just come to Zagreb when he disappeared) also goes to another school. Thus, in two shifts (before noon - afternoon), he tries to be a student in two schools and gets into many dramatic situations. The riddle is, of course, solved by Kušan's main character Koko.
Beggars and Sons
Story about Matan, professional beggar, smuggler, and trickster, his childhood and adult adventures with his family. It is shown as retrospective, while Matan is hiding from the authorities in the mental institution.
Where the Wild Boars Go
It happens around Zagreb in 1941-1943, during World War II. Two groups of smugglers led by Crni Rok and Veriga, fight for supremacy on the black market. They also have to deal with the Germans, Ustashas, the police and communist illegals.
Fliers of the Open Skies
Poetic parable of children in war and their sacrifice.
The Four Seasons
The film is an omnibus consisting of three stories - "Usvojenje", "Ferije" and "Probni rok". We follow fragments of the lives of young girls from a social institution for children and young adults without parents. In the first story, a wealthy young couple wants to adopt a five-year-old girl, Zeljka. The emotionally undeveloped child has a hard time adapting to her new environment. In Ferije, fifteen-year-old Visnja spends her winter holidays in a gloomy home for young delinquents, where she experiences her first romance. The heroine of the third story is nineteen-year-old Branka who, after her graduation, tries to find a job and become independent from the social institutions she has lived in her entire life.
Baby Deer
A group of kids saves a baby deer from the woods and then they take care of it until it grows up. Original title: JELENKO
Journalist
Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
Journalist
Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
Night Boats
Seventy-year-old teenagers running away from home. They are not running away from their parents, they are running away from the inevitable.
Filmography
as Vlado
as Doktor Vrtovec
as Stariji Pilar
as Gostilničar v vasi
as Veselinović
as Profesor matematike
as Jambrek
as Hanzika
as Seljak
as Psihijatar
as Ujo
as Djed
as Džo Amerikanac
as Brigadir Heinrich
as Predsednik mjesne zajednice
as Inženjer Marek
as Grga
as Plemeniti
as Liberan
as Liječnik
as Odvjetnik
as Kapsula
as Policajac u civilu
as Šef transporta Franjo
as Zlatkov otac
as Mate
as Petar
as Redatelj u kazalištu & Ustaški satnik
as Radnik Vlado
as Kamilo Lisac
as Djed
as Logornik Kozarić