Vera Zima
Know for: Acting
Born:
Place of birth: Metković, Croatia
Also know as:
The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh (1988)
Television adaptation of the play "The Ballad of Petrica Kerempuh", based on the famous collection of Kajkavian songs by Miroslav Krleža.
Metastases (2009)
Eliciting images of cancer, this drama explores the illnesses that plague modern Croatia. Four young junkies in Zagreb maturing in the wake of war...
Devil's Island (1979)
After Italian capitulation in WW2, German forces are rushing to take control of the Dalmatian coast, forcing thousands of people to take refuge. One...
Sorry for Kung Fu (2004)
Mirjana is returning to Croatia from Germany where she spent some time as a refugee. She is pregnant. Now, when the war in Croatia is over and her...
Long Dark Night (2004)
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan...
I Have to Sleep, My Angel (2007)
Goran remembers his childhood: in the early 70s, he was only 9 years old, adoring football and awaiting a prestigious basketball game between...
Snowstorm (1977)
A story about life adversities of an old emigrant who returns from America to his native village.
Kvit posla (1983)
After a twenty-year absence, psychiatrist returns to his hometown, where a meeting with old acquaintances and a former love will lead him to a...
The Drinking Bout (1987)
A young family from the province moves into the ground floor of a quiet building in Zagreb and with their lifestyle and behavior disrupts the idyllic...
Crime Chronicle or Woman's Day (2000)
It deals with unexpected romance between a salesgirl and a police inspector.
The Silk, the Shears (1987)
Based on the memoirs of Irena Vrkljan. Through reminiscences of Mala and her sisters, we meet her family and her contemporary intellectual elite.
The Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside (2001)
After being repeatedly denied her requests for a vacation by her sexist boss, a young woman finally explodes.
Vukovar: The Way Home (1994)
The story follows a group of Croatian refugees who have been forced to leave their hometown of Vukovar by Serbian forces during Croatia's struggle...
Journalist (1979)
Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
I Want to Live (1982)
Deals with the father-son conflict in a farming family. The two never see eye to eye especially over the way the farm is run. The boy opts for a...
In Four Rows (1999)
The story about the Bleiburg massacre, seen from a Croatian Home Defenders point of view.
The Man Under the Table (2009)
The microcosmic world of a street market on the outskirts of Zagreb: traders, thieves, prostitutes, self-appointed security guards and other lost...
God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen (2002)
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...
The Murmur of the Shell (1990)
A pharmacist travels from the island to the usual medical treatment at hospital in Zagreb. He's followed by low-ranked regime official whose conduct...
Fuck Off I Love You (2017)
Alvin signed a book deal for a book depicting love in modern age based on his own experiences. But he did not count on the fact that return to those...
Premeditated Love Letters (1985)
Musicologist and professor Kosor wakes up in a hospital. He has survived a serious car accident. In a bed next to his lies the amiable economist...
Step by Step (2011)
At the beginning of the war in Croatia, Vjera refuses to leave the ruins of her home on the front line . Her husband flees town while their son goes...
Restlessness (1982)
In order to save her marriage, Marija tries to erase from memory the trauma that she's been haunted by ever since youth. The shock she had suffered...
Winter in Rio (2002)
A homeless man who lives in abandoned bus finds out that his daughter comes from Germany to meet him for the first time in twelve years. Ashamed of...
Ante Returns Home (2001)
Ante is a village fella who arrives in Zagreb to study at the faculty of forestry.
The Third Woman (1997)
In the Autumn of 1991 Croatia is fighting for independence and the capital Zagreb is plagued by air raid alerts and blackouts. Hela Martinic is a...
Matriarch (2019)
The story of Jasna, a Croatian ex-pat who, due to her mother Anka's declining health, is forced to return to a place she has been avoiding most of...
Cyclops (1982)
Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.
A Summer to Remember (1990)
Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1890. A group of high-school students run away on an adventure that ends in scandal. The ringleader, Gusta, is expelled from...
A Visit (1986)
After serving the prison time, a man turns for help to his friend who is in a high position. But the friendship that once bound them becomes a burden...