Branko Špoljar
Know for: Acting
Born: 1914-01-04
Place of birth: Zagreb, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]
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The Rage Within (1969)
A University professor is being blackmailed by his own daughter for having an affair with one of her friends.
The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla (1980)
Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this...
Accidental Life (1969)
Two friends try to tear out their lives from the clutches of idle. An existential study of ordinary lives led by two alienated urban white collar...
The Concert (1954)
Celebrating the end of World War II and liberation of their city, a group of students is set on holding a cultural evening. They invite Ema, a...
Lisinski (1944)
Biography of Vatroslav Lisinski, 19th century Croatian composer and the author of the first Croatian opera.
Lidija (1981)
Lidija is a wealthy Zagreb lady who, during the German occupation, begins to collaborate with Yugoslav Resistance.
Lone Wolf (1972)
A boy finds a large wolf-like dog in the mountain and they befriend. The local peasants think that it may be a real wolf responsible for the sheep...
The Rat Savior (1976)
A poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the...
The Key (1965)
Segment "Duga ulica" (A Long Street): A young man named Boris and a girl, Vera, live in the same neighborhood. They meet one night when she loses her...
When You Hear the Bells (1969)
Partizan commisar, a Communist intellectual from Zagreb, must bring the group of Serb partizans in line.
Adriatic Sea of Fire (1968)
The film tells the story of the Yugoslav destroyer Zagreb which fights against Germany in 1941, and how some of the crew members try to organise a...
Shepherd (1971)
The tribulations of a hardy shepherd and a young boy fighting local peasants in order to have the right to graze his sheep. The old man is killed by...
The Real State of Affairs (1964)
A young married man goes into the army and when he comes back finds out that his wife has gone off with another man.
Handcuffs (1970)
Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian...
Treasure of Silver Lake (1962)
Fred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the Colonel only acquires half of it, the other half...
The Ravine (1969)
In the winter of 1943, deep in the frozen waste of German occupied Yugoslavia, a lone parachute drifts from the snowy skies, falling ever closer to...
Apache Gold (1963)
The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang...
Kozara (1962)
In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia....
Little Mother (1973)
Marina Pinares, the wife of the president of a South American country, insists on being his vice-presidential running mate in the next election....
Lum and Abner Abroad (1956)
The "boys" from Pine Ridge visit Europe and try to help a Yugoslavian ballerina find her American lover, become involved with French jewel thieves,...
The Valley of Death (1968)
An army gold shipment and its escort vanish in the Ozarks, prompting accusations of theft and desertion but frontiersman Old Shatterhand and Apache...
Winnetou and the Crossbreed (1966)
On her b-day, settler's daughter Apanatschi receives her father's secret gold mine but greedy neighboring prospectors resort to murder and kidnapping...
Slow Motion (1979)
A 40 year old former football star and idol of his generation feels that there's a gap between him and the rest of his peers. In order to cross...
Hell Hounds of Alaska (1973)
A fur-trapper battles the elements and robbers when a gold shipment is ambushed - leaving a boy in urgent need of medical attention.