Tonko Lonza Movies
- 1992
- PG13
After a scientist creates superhuman warrior Red Skull for the Nazis during WW II, she defects and does the same for the U.S.-- injecting a polio victim to transform him into the titular heroic beefcake. Forty years after a confrontation which left Captain America frozen in Alaska, he is found and thawed and must take on Red Skull once again. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Matt Salinger, Melinda Dillon, (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)
- 1989
Figures in the Nazi high command carefully went about the business of acquiring art collections from the countries they occupied. In this Yugoslavian feature, Siegfried Handke (Ljubimir Todorovic) is a Nazi officer who learns that a whole collection of priceless impressionist paintings was inherited from an important French collector by a Yugoslavian Jew (Peter Carsten); he searches Paris for the man and the missing collection. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Carsten, Urska Hlebek, (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)
- 1979
On a state-run newspaper, even a journalist who understands his place in the scheme of things can run into difficulty because of his pride. In this story, a reporter on a "political" newspaper runs into trouble when he challenges his boss's decision not to run his story on a metalworker's strike. His wife cannot understand why he doesn't just go along with things, as his protests cannot possibly make any difference and prevent him from receiving promotions and better pay. Nonetheless, he persists, and becomes a pariah. After he has a mild heart attack, his wife takes their children and leaves him, and his future is very much in doubt. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rade Serbedzija, Fabijan Sovagovic, (more)
- 1960
A rather disappointing means of celebrating Yugoslavia's uprising against Nazi occupying forces, this unexceptional wartime drama revolves around two partisans who are caught by the pro-German Yugoslav police force. The captured partisans' comrades-in-arms devise a unique plan to spring them from captivity and certain death -- they will get some uniforms belonging to their own pro-Nazi forces and simply walk right in and free the two captives. Everyone is willing to take the risk of a major gun battle as they prepare for their day of action. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
