Marinko Prga Movies
An emerging journalist (Jesse Eisenberg), an experienced cameraman (Terrence Howard), and a discredited reporter (Richard Gere) find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad in a light-hearted thriller inspired by Scott Anderson's popular Esquire article. The Weinstein Company provides stateside distribution for a film written and directed by Richard Shepard (The Matador). ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, (more)
- 2007
First time feature filmmaker Kristijan Milic teams with writer Josip Mlakic for this screen adaptation of Mlakic's popular novel following two tales of 20th Century bloodshed in Bosnia. Alternating between warfare in 1943 and 1993, Milic and Mlakic's dark war drama highlights the haunting sameness of both battles by following a squadron of HVO (Bosnian Croat soldiers as the walk the same path and face the same treachery that their Domobran (defenders of the Corat Independent State) forefathers did just fifty years prior. Chief among the HVO team is sympathetic soldier Tomo - whose grandfather was the last surviving Domobran Martin. By the time soldiers in both eras make their way to the haunted cemetery, the stories converge to highlight the hopeless cycle of strife that seems poised to repeat itself ad infinitum. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Filip Sovagovic, Velibor Topic, (more)
The drug trade in a depressed Croatian burgh provides a through-line for this episodic drama, which screened at the 2004 Sarajevo Film Festival. In each of the three stories set in the coastal town of Split, children and young adults are caught up in dealing, using or trying to avoid drugs; the rapper Coolio appears as a sailor trading smack for the services of an addicted prostitute. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dino Dvornik, Marinko Prga, (more)
