Ena Begovic Movies
- 1991
Charuga (Ivo Gregurevic) is a wild, scruple-free character, who goes off to fight in Russia during the first World War, and becomes even less easily swayed by ordinary concerns. As the movie opens, he is being chased throught the woods, naked, by the Slovenian police. He has just made love to his old sweetheart and killed the man who had been bedding her since the war began. Then he teams up with a communist guerilla to enjoy even more mayhem and murder. Meanwhile, he is being tracked down by a plodding but persistent policeman. The policeman has aspirations of having sex with an Austrian noblewoman; ironically, Charuga has been having sloppy sex with her for some time. Eventually, after a great many journeys and adventures, this scoundrel is captured. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ivo Gregurevic, Petar Bozovic, (more)
- 1989
Leon Glembay (Mustafa Nadarevic) is a painter who returns to his homeland to avenge the tragic deaths of his mother, brother, and sister, all who committed suicide. Leon's father is a prominent banker who is now remarried to a young baroness. Leon reveals to his father that the baroness has a treacherous agenda and a checkered past. The story stays very close to the original play and novel by Miroslav Krleza. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mustafa Nadarevic, Ena Begovic, (more)
- 1987
Branko is a self-involved fellow who has somehow managed to win the attention of two women: his wife, and a fairly plain (but blonde) woman. His wife and he are somewhat at odds, if only for his tendency to prefer chess games to bedroom antics. One day they are on a train to visit their son, who is in hospital, and they are so angry with each other that they split up. He goes one direction to watch a chess game, she stays in their compartment. Unfortunately, she is in a compartment sufficiently remote that when she is raped by three men, her shrieks and cries go unheard. Branko is just heading back to their seats when he comes across his wife wailing and pulling open the outside door to the train. Before he can get to her, the distraught woman jumps to her death. Afflicted with partial amnesia, it is difficult for him to assist the police with their inquiries. However, on a similar train trip, he is able to put it all together and, curiously, the same villains are aboard, and he cold-bloodedly does each one of them in. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Irfan Mensur, Ena Begovic, (more)
- 1982
Three generations of men in a small farm in Croatia are caught in the throes of a generation gap that seems too wide for anyone to bridge. One day the grandfather unsuccessfully tries to hang himself in a desperate attempt to fight his son's modern methods of farming, methods that would trash their family traditions, from his point of view. At the other extreme, the young grandson leaves because he cannot accept the way the farm is managed now -- though he is certain to come back, he needs to escape for awhile. He meets up with a fair maid and enters into a brief liaison before he finds that he is very much enamored of a beautiful mute woman -- and his feelings are reciprocated. In order to further their official relationship, he takes her home to a family gathering, only to churn up the superficially calm waters of the family's diverse personalities; it turns out that his father cannot tolerate the woman's inability to speak. As the disagreements rise to a crescendo, the family will either have to come to terms with their differences, or they may be in danger of disintegrating. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Fabijan Sovagovic, Milan Strljic, (more)
- 1982
In a series of humorous anecdotes, the life of a down-to-earth teacher and his class of orphans in a one-room Yugoslavian schoolhouse is filled with the most unlikely events. The class continues between late 1944 to the summer of 1945, and much happens during that time. The school's cook and mascot of sorts is a German POW, the teacher gets involved with saving the grandfather of one of his students from an undeserved retribution, and he gets the gift of a pig in return. The pig, however, may have a brief lifespan as food is in very short supply. As the students and teacher face a lack of food and many other hardships together, bonds are forged which will make it difficult to break up as summer approaches. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dragan Nikolic, Ena Begovic, (more)
- 1981
The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resistence movement of Communists is dedicated to sabotaging and ending the occupation. When a wealthy young man joins the resistence, he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a spy for the Italians. As a result of his liaison and her activity, they are both executed by a Communist comrade - a previous friend. The comrade is dedicated to the hard-line policies of the resistence, until he himself falls in love with the daughter of a bourgeois landowner on the island - a landowner who has collaborated with the Italians. Neither the Italian occupying army (one officer is shown in an attempted rape scene) nor the resistence fighters are stereotyped forces for good or evil, but all are equally subject to the dehumanizing effects of war. Pad Italije won the Grand Prize for best film at the 1981 Pulo Film Festival in Yugoslavia. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Daniel Olbrychski, Ena Begovic, (more)
- 1981
In this 77-minute "stream-of-consciousness" series of events, a young man runs away from home only to wander around town for awhile. A joke about marriage winds up taking people to a picnic in an area outside the city that is off-limits. First a fake wedding and then a real wedding occur, followed by three couples trying to outdo each other in verbal acuity. Meanwhile, some other young men arrive in a boat, and then start a quarrel which leads to a full-blown fist fight. Into the foray comes a game warden with some comical observations on modern Yugoslavian society - about as fragmented as this story in 1981. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Predrag Ejdus, Ena Begovic, (more)
- 1979
Set in Dubrovnik, this drama chronicles a friendship, between three men, that began just before World War II. One of the men is of Italian origin, another is the wealthy heir of a shipping fortune, and the third is the son of a Jewish antique-store owner. Before the war, they are fast friends, enjoying one another's company at carnivals and at a private fencing club. When the war comes, the Italians and Germans move in to create the state of Croatia. The Italian boy becomes a fascist and courts and marries the sister of his rich friend. Soon enough, atrocities are being committed, and anyone suspected of Jewish parentage, or of leftist leanings, is killed. The Jewish boy and the factory owner's son escape the general roundup, take revenge for some of the indignities they and their families have suffered, and join the anti-fascist underground ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Frano Lasic, Boris Kralj, (more)
