Tana Mascarelli

Beggars and Sons

Baba Anđuka

Story about Matan, professional beggar, smuggler, and trickster, his childhood and adult adventures with his family. It is shown as retrospective, while Matan is hiding from the authorities in the mental institution.

The Eye

Barišina mati

When Dr. Lovro Furato accidentally fails to treat the injured eye of the peasant Barisa Surac, the whole silent conflict between the two worlds, rich urban and backward rural, will emerge to the surface.

The Ravine

First Old Woman

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 earth and a waiting German patrol car. Suddenly shots ring out from a hidden sniper, the Germans are killed, and the parachutist scurries away into the forest. The sniper is a woman, the number one partisan terrorist on the German hit list, and her adversary is the German number one exterminator sent direct from berlin to eliminate her. The battle is on, orders from high command - capture her… alive. Both are professional, but now the hunter becomes the hunted.

Cervantes from the Small Town

Anđina mati

'Malo Misto' lives its own life, but not far behind the times. Hotel manager Roko Prč strives to organise tourism, so he introduces the first nudist beach. His wife Anđa brings two of her cousins from the Dalmatian hinterland and demands Roko to hire them. One of them, a young man named Ikan, earns the attention of a beautiful Swedish tourist. From Chile to Malo Misto returned Tonči, nicknamed Servantes, of course, without any money. He fell on the back of his hardworking aunt Keka, who even without him has enough problems of her own. Servantes also experiences an unexpected romance.

The Key

Amalija Jurak, bolesna starica

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 key. Boris invites her to spend the night at his place; Segment "Čekati" (To Wait): Married students, Ivan and Sonja, live in an old woman's apartment. She is sick and the couple hopes that she will die soon, so that they may inherit her apartment; Segment "Poslije predstave" (After the Play): A husband and a wife lose the key to their apartment and have to spend the night in a hotel. The experience is wonderful and renews their feelings for each other, if only for a night.

Train without a Timetable

Jolina žena

The story about colonization of poor Dalmatian peasants to the fertile Pannonian plain shortly after WWII.

Atomic War Bride

At a church in the country, eternally optimistic John marries Maria, his Atomic War Bride, as a war starts, planes buzz overhead and bombs start dropping. Though John is "mobilized" by the military seconds after the ceremony, he and Maria seek to be reunited.

Kozara

Marinkova majka

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. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.

1st Split Detachment

Starica koja pravi sir

A Partisan unit goes into battle with the enemy twice stronger, somehow resists detachment to attack deep into the night, where the fraud are captured combatants from all units and thrown to the terrible torture and eventually murder.

Boom Town

Jovicina majka

Farmers and their families, engineers, technicians, criminals and prostitutes were acquired on the construction of industrial facilities in Zenica. Siba tries to help them, working with dedication and love that goes beyond his duty. It is difficult to satisfy everyone and achieve more in this scorching city and Siba makes mistakes, carried by desire to achieve the impossible. With great effort, the builders manage to overcome the maelstrom after the dam burst, and while the first iron runs from the new furnace, Siba, dismissed because of errors committed, leaves a boom town of Zenica.

From One Friday to the Next

Friday is the day that everyone goes away for the weekend. A bank clerk spends his weekend off a small island with his boat, but the weekend does not run its usual course.

Sunrise

Majka

Having learned of the love affair between his wife and his colleague, a train driver finds himself in a dilemma: only one move is enough to kill his opponent in a train accident that they've found themselves in.

Klara Dombrovska

Kata

It tells about mutual conflicts and the decline of the once rich and prominent Zagreb family Dombrovski. In this large family, women have always been in charge of decisions. The plot takes place immediately after the death of the founder and owner of the company, Vladimir Dombrovski.

Passion According to Matthew

Majka

Split shipyard worker's Mate, lives with his elderly mother and wife Mara, and trying to prove himself as a boxer. At the same time, his younger brother Luka drunk sex and fantasize about trip in Germany, embarks on a passionate love relationship with a young girl Orom, which was a bit sexually satisfied only him, his step father who thought he was father. The tense atmosphere seasoned with sea waves,can only bring tragedy.

Ninth Miracle on the East

Gazdarica

Perpetual wandering of a man who searches for his own identity, never reaching the final destination.

And Forgive Our Trespasses

The arrival of the first tourists brought unrest among the residents of the small, melancholic Dalmatian town. Some of them were tempted by the possibility of easy earnings, but besides mutual disputes, tourism also brought them encounters with people they were not accustomed to.

Big Shade

Lukina baba

The action takes place in the Dalmatian hinterland and displays how the effects of modern life disintegrate local population in the villages.

In the Storm

Majka

Rose is a young woman who lost her husband in WW2, leaving her and their daughter behind. She gets close with his good-natured brother Drago. However, an unscrupulous smuggler Vincenzo is always around him, and things get tough for the couple.

Man of the World

Šjora Luce, žena s magarcem

A young womanizer from the Dalmatian coastal town goes to Germany hoping to get easy money.

Mad Summer

Šjora Marija

A summer in the life of tourist-seducing boys.