Branko Ivanda

Branko Ivanda

Branko Ivanda (born 25 December 1941) is Croatian film director and screenwriter. Ivanda was born in Split, then under Italian occupation. His father Leo was a high-school professor of Croatian and French language and his mother Dunja a clerk. The family had artistic leanings, as Ivanda's grandfather was an actor in the Croatian National Theatre in Split (HNK), while his uncle-in-law was composer Ivo Tijardović. Ivanda completed the classical gymnasium in his hometown, occasionally playing minor roles in the HNK, but as he preferred directing, he entered the Academy of Dramatic Arts of the University of Zagreb where he graduated. His directing debut was 1969 modernist piece Gravitacija ili fantastična mladost činovnika Borisa Horvata. Following the ban of his documentary about 1971 student demonstrations Poezija i revolucija - studentski štrajk 1971, in the 1970s he focused on television, where he would direct films, dramas, documentary and advertising films for over thirty years. He also accepted occasional theater projects. For his TV and fiction films he received several awards, notably FIPRESCI from the Berlin Film Festival. He has been a dean of the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb since 2004. Ivanda married twice: from the first marriage with Stanka, he had son Nikola, who was also a director and Branko's close assistant in multiple TV projects, such as popular series Obični ljudi, Ponos Ratkajevih, Sve će biti dobro and Dolina sunca. Nikola died from heart attack in 2012 at age 36. From his second marriage with producer Lidija he has two children.

  • Title: Branko Ivanda
  • Popularity: 0.0546
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1941-12-25
  • Place of Birth: Split, Croatia
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Branko Ivanda Movies

  • 1997
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    Pont Neuf

    Pont Neuf

    1 1997 HD

    A young Croatian painter Josip Račić in the solitude of a Parisian attic encounters unusual people and falls in love with a cabaret singer. The ambience of the cheap Parisian hotel mixes in the painter's mind with memories of his childhood and youth in the Slavonian plain, all these things finding their expression in his paintings that start to attract the attention of experts...

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  • 1972
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    Real Truth

    Real Truth

    7.2 1972 HD

    Božidarka Frajt (playing herself) is an actress who is unsuccessfully looking for a job in Zagreb. The film follows her everyday life: she spends time with her friends and colleagues, shoots a television commercial, goes to a party, remembers her difficult childhood as a war orphan, and contemplates her professional and personal failures. Finally, she visits theatre manager Vjeran Zuppa in his office and asks for a job.

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  • 2003
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    The Horseman

    The Horseman

    6.5 2003 HD

    The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.

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  • 2011
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    Lea and Darija

    Lea and Darija

    6.1 2011 HD

    It’s inspiring true story about two thirteen-year-old girls who were, on the eve of World War II, great dancing and acting stars in Zagreb. Selling out theatre venues, they were praised in the most superb headlines by the Croatian and European press. They were filmed by Parisian Pathe and Berlin’s UFA… During the Nazi persecution of Jews and the later German nationals’ flight from communists, a dramatic friendship was born through entertainment, dance, but also anxiety. This led towards an unexpected end.

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  • 2011
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    Lea and Darija

    Lea and Darija

    6.1 2011 HD

    It’s inspiring true story about two thirteen-year-old girls who were, on the eve of World War II, great dancing and acting stars in Zagreb. Selling out theatre venues, they were praised in the most superb headlines by the Croatian and European press. They were filmed by Parisian Pathe and Berlin’s UFA… During the Nazi persecution of Jews and the later German nationals’ flight from communists, a dramatic friendship was born through entertainment, dance, but also anxiety. This led towards an unexpected end.

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  • 1973
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    The Dream of Dr. Mišić

    The Dream of Dr. Mišić

    7.5 1973 HD

    Doctor Mišić comes to the Jabučevački cacstle, a place known as haunted by ghosts and wraiths. He's stubborn supporter of common sense and logic, taking all assumptions about transcendent world and fourth dimension to be silly. However...

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  • 1982
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    Crime at School

    Crime at School

    1 1982 HD

    Zlatko Kovač, a provincial professor, gets the job in the big city's school, only to find out that his red-employment is not random. Professor Toth, the man he replaced, has died under the strange circumstances. Kovac meets a variety of strange people in his school's collective, and it was not long before they came up with the new body. However, the police is unable to solve the case, but he takes the matter into his own hands and setting a trap for a murderer on a school manifestation.

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  • 1982
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    Crime at School

    Crime at School

    1 1982 HD

    Zlatko Kovač, a provincial professor, gets the job in the big city's school, only to find out that his red-employment is not random. Professor Toth, the man he replaced, has died under the strange circumstances. Kovac meets a variety of strange people in his school's collective, and it was not long before they came up with the new body. However, the police is unable to solve the case, but he takes the matter into his own hands and setting a trap for a murderer on a school manifestation.

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  • 1974
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    Nocturno

    Nocturno

    1 1974 HD

    After the death of his beloved wife, a nobleman from northern Croatia turns to spiritualism refusing to accept that she's gone. She begins to appear in his presence and he starts to believe that she's alive.

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  • 1978
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    Court Martial

    Court Martial

    7 1978 HD

    Just before Italy's capitulation in 1943, an eminent lawyer is being forcefully taken to the fort by Italian authorities along with his fourteen year old son, in order to reconstruct the judicial process for thirty nameless people that never actually took place.

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  • 1978
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    Court Martial

    Court Martial

    7 1978 HD

    Just before Italy's capitulation in 1943, an eminent lawyer is being forcefully taken to the fort by Italian authorities along with his fourteen year old son, in order to reconstruct the judicial process for thirty nameless people that never actually took place.

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  • 1968
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    Gravitation

    Gravitation

    5.9 1968 HD

    After completing his military service, Boris Horvat finds himself at the crossroads. He thinks about enrolling at the faculty, but the job of a clerk at a bank where his father worked is already waiting for him. Boris falls in love with a female artist, but soon gets involved in another love affair, this time with his female colleague at work.

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  • 1968
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    Gravitation

    Gravitation

    5.9 1968 HD

    After completing his military service, Boris Horvat finds himself at the crossroads. He thinks about enrolling at the faculty, but the job of a clerk at a bank where his father worked is already waiting for him. Boris falls in love with a female artist, but soon gets involved in another love affair, this time with his female colleague at work.

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  • 1983
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    In the Camp

    In the Camp

    1 1983 HD

    Piano player is commissioned as an officer in WW1 Austro-Hungarian army. His sensitive soul is being tormented by war atrocities. And then he is ordered to hang an old lady...

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  • 1975
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    The Rabbit

    The Rabbit

    1 1975 HD

    Written in 1932 between the two world wars, this TV drama brings a critique of militarism and speaks of the meaninglessness of warfare and the tragedy of human lives and the tragedy of human lives in such an environment.

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  • 1978
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    Bombing Process

    Bombing Process

    1 1978 HD

    In 1928 young Communist activist was arrested and put on trial for anti-state activity. Years later he became known as Tito, Communist president of Yugoslavia, and this TV-movie was made for the 50th anniversary of those events.

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  • 1967
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    Illusion

    Illusion

    7 1967 HD

    The story of an inter-generational conflict between two brothers of completely different political and secular views.

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  • 1974
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    The Wooden Coffin of Thomas Wolfe

    The Wooden Coffin of Thomas Wolfe

    1 1974 HD

    Two characters spend days in over-questioning themselves and arguing about the first and last matters of ephemeral human existence.

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  • 1980
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    Ana and Nives

    Ana and Nives

    1 1980 HD

    It follows the lives of two women; real-life painter Nives Kavurić-Kurtović and editor Ana who’s just working on editing of documentary on Nives.

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  • 1980
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    Ana and Nives

    Ana and Nives

    1 1980 HD

    It follows the lives of two women; real-life painter Nives Kavurić-Kurtović and editor Ana who’s just working on editing of documentary on Nives.

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  • 1976
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    The Case of Graduate Wagner

    The Case of Graduate Wagner

    1 1976 HD

    This drama premiered in Zagreb in 1935. The plot shows a young man from a well-to-do bourgeois family facing the anger of his parents over his absences from high school, behind which stands his forbidden love with a girl of humble working-class background.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    The story begins when we learn that the lives of the main characters, although quite different and seemingly unrelated, are actually intertwined on multiple levels. Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, a great friendship and business partnership of Matko and Zoran rudely ended.

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