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SVE ĆE BITI DOBRO (Everything Will Be Alright)
180 episodes x 45 min
Aired on HRT1
2008-2009
Production:
Ring Multimedia
Series «Everything Will Be All Right» is about love, friendship and rivalry. Based on conflict of the two once best friends, it is an intense, turbulent and dramatic story about three kinds of love: about never seen and unexpected one, then about marital one, to most of people closer one, and about sad and painful love.
The story begins at a moment when we learn that main characters' lives are linked on many levels, although at the first sight they look very different and distant. The time has come for them to solve problems from the past and overcome challenges: They have to meet again and discover surprising things.
DOLINA SUNCA (Sunny Valley)
210 episodes x 45 min
Airing on HRT1
2009-2010
Production:
Ring Multimedia
After death of her husband, a lawyer Vjekoslav Kralj, a beautiful widow Eva Kralj moves out from Zagreb to a small picaresque village called Jablanovo. Eva discovers that her late husband had had a double life with his mistress Julija, with whom he had a child. Julija is popular mayor of Jablanovo. She is from wealthy family and hers is a big agricultural property called “Velika polja” (Great fields). Two women, linked by unusual game of fate, come a long way from hostility to reappraisal.
In Eva’s life come two men: charming Andrija and introverted Kristijan, but she is emotionally wounded. Kristijan and Andrija will be tempted because of feelings toward Eva, and both of them have their private battles.
Eva’s moving to Jablanovo causes turmoil to everyday life in Jablanovo. Some well-hidden secrets began to see the light of the day.
MAMUTICA (The Mammoth Building)
40 episodes x 50 min
Airing on HRT1
2008-2010
Production:
Drugi plan
In 'Mamutica' there are no many murders, but there are many other types of criminal cases. The aim was to avoid copying of the CSI, NYPD Blue and other similar formats.
In our world a crime is mostly a result of a human affect, of a line of unfortunate circumstances and mirrors a harsh reality of transitional society. There are neither criminal masterminds nor sophisticated conspiracies. However, there are thieves, frauds, molesters, drug dealers, traffickers with weapons and people… all those who scare 'Mamutica' tenants as well as any other people living in these kinds of residential neighbourhoods.
20 episodes x 30 min
Aired on HRT1
2008-2009
Production:
Interfilm
The plot of the TV comedy show «Zakon!» (''The Law!'') takes place in Svetkovina, a little town lying on the very border between two prosperous counties, the capital of the furnishing industry and also – thanks to its strong police forces, inspector Zdravko Maček and his deputy Mateo Ćirić – the safest place in the country. These two will take up cases involving burglary, kidnappings, serial murders, paedophiles, copper thieves, car stealing mafia, CD piracy, mythical monsters, Satanists, as well as an ancient tribe of Afro-Croatians.
Zdravko is a middle-aged inspector, freshly divorced, cynical, tired of life. He remembers times when everything used to be so much better; he just can't seem to remember how exactly it was better for him. Quick to use his police stick and less sharp then he is inclined to think.
Mateo is a young, ambitious, naive policeman in his mid twenties, with a heart of gold. He lives by his idealistic image of the police profession, which is based on too many American TV shows. He is hopeless when it comes to girls, secretly in love with the waitress Rajna , an informer serving scoops from the other side - of the bar counter.
Hitna 94 (Emergency Room)
16 episodes x 45 min
Airing on Nova TV
2009-2010
Production:
Odeon produkcija
When we are most vulnerable and afraid, and facing our own mortality, we take for granted that the doctors and nurses of the emergency medical services are here to save us from the clutches of certain death. To these professional life-savers, this most important job of all demands that they take full responsibility for the lives of their patients on daily basis.
Decisions made in a matter of seconds, regardless whether right or wrong, will continue to live with them forever, leaving behind physical and emotional scars.
The stress level of the job is indescribable and a day does not go by that our characters do not ask themselves why they continue to work in the emergency room, but just like any other junkie, they become addicted to the adrenaline and excitement that just isn't available in any other branch of medicine.
DOBRE NAMJERE (Good Intentions)
62 episodes x 40 min
Aired on HRT1
2007-2008
Production:
Odeon produkcija
This series is family drama with elements of thriller. It reflects Croatia's sub-reality and actually of any in the Eastern European transitional society.
This is a story about four friends who are, after years of separation, gathering again for a business project. Their wives will mutually befriend, but also they will be opponents, and that is why their mutual trust will always be set by doubts.
The main character is Dario Deverić, an attorney, who is attracted by criminal milieu, and then becomes their reliable collaborator. Although convinced that he does good thing because he is secretly collaborating with police, Dario is more and more swallowed by criminal underground.
173 episodes x 35 min
Airing on HRT
2005-2010
Production:
Adria AMS
Enough about beautiful, slim and successful people! Life is something completely different!
This is a story about the people facing everyday's problems, those that usually remain unresolved.
These people are ex wives, ex husbands, nosy housekeepers, poor pensioners idealising the old communist system, old gals looking for a life partner, crafty café owner and a naive nature lover… What they got in common is to do something with their life and the bank account.
The leading character is a small actor with big problems – Miljenko Majer. His job is to play unimportant roles in local theatre, while he dreams about a big breakthrough. Of course, he does!
BITANGE I PRINCEZE (Bums and princesses)
139 episodes x 30 min
Airing on HRT
2005-2010
Production:
Interfilm
The most successful urban sitcom series in Croatia brings the story about five friends and their surrounding. Which is constantly changing but nevertheless remains the same.
An eager downtown boy Robi a lifelong student, arrogant and quite straight-forward, constantly warring with a good-looking Irena, a not so bright, but very resourceful and ambitious ex model who decided she wanted to pursue a more meaningful life.
There are others too, two friends with completely contrasting personalities – who, by a twist of faith, become Robi's flatmates. Kazimir is a rather confused guy that had lived with his high-maintenance mother until recently, a guy who knows everything there is about films and music, but has never had a serious relationship with a girl, and lacks social competencies, but is determined to change all that and become an independent man.
ZAUVIJEK SUSJEDI (Neighbours Forever)
180 episodes x 25 min
Aired on Nova TV
2008-2009
Production:
Ring Multimedia
A first daytime sitcom in Croatia 'Neighbours Forever' brought a significant and very successful change to the audiences. Broadcasted daily at 18,30h it delivered half hour of laughter and good mood.
Ferdo and Jura are next-door neighbours, best friends and brother-in-laws in their early 50s, now only remembering their former middle-class status, which was eaten away by the post-Communist transition.
Ferdo is a mastermind of all the great projects aiming to finally resolve their financial problems. Do we need to emphasize the final outcome of all these 'great' efforts? Next door to Ferdo and Jura lives Grof (nickname 'Count') who is got no financial problems, but nobody knows what the source of all that money is. Count is got himself a 'butler', a pensioner Koma, who is also in charge of fixing things around the building.
Jura's wife Lili portrays herself to be a lady, but is got no manners whatsoever. Ferdo's wife left him just before the show starts and will she return is open to be seen.
Three hot looking girls, Sanja, Anđa and Viki, live in the same building. Sanja is Ferdo's daughter, but not with much respect for her loser dad.
77 episodes x 35 min
Aired on Nova TV
2007-2008
Production:
Ring Multimedia
Little hotel 'Cimmer fraj' is located in a small town on the Croatian coast. It is owned by Joško, an old time Dalmatian loverboy, who is now nothing like a warm and helpful person to his guests. His slogan is 'Send your money for your stay in our hotel and – stay home!'. Unlike him, his wife Anđa is got an ambition to make their little hotel a top destination, especially for the foreign tourists. Imagine the harmony between these two!
Joško's sidekick is a Bosnian waiter Memo, who is also not as keen to serve the guests and this duo is constantly developing alternative business plans, just to get rid of the everyday's routine.
53 episodes x 40 min
Aired on Nova TV
2006-2007
Production:
Ring Multimedia
BUMERANG is a little local TV station, recently acquired and then renamed by a Croatian returnee from Australia, a man with Western business thinking and Balkans manners. His plan is to make this station commercially often using controversial and unconventional methods. This causes frequent frustrations with the Chief Editor, a sleazy character, who managed to 'survive' all the previous owners. Even bigger and rather funny disputes occur between the owner (now sided by the Chief Editor) and the news staff.
VELIKI BRODOLOMI JADRANA (Great shipwrecks of the Adriatic Sea)
Documentary series
6 programmes
Duration: 40 minutes
Aired:
HRT1 2007
Production:
Ring Multimedia
This is the most ambitious project in the field of sub marine documentary production in Adriatic in the past 30 years. Combining the archive material with the latest video technology, this programme reveals some long lost heritage and secrets of the Croatian naval area. Navy battles, tragic sinking, mysteries... are told in the attractive footage, animations, survivors' testimonies and witnesses'' statements.
40 episodes x 30-40 min
+ 2 full-length films
Aired on BK and Pink 2004-2008
Production:
BS Group
19th century Serbia. Nothing like the official history books say, the romanticized people's thrive to liberate itself from the Ottoman Empire this series provides a different story.
Crni Gruja is a nephew of the people's leader. Using his status he is a small-time smuggler between the Ottomans and the Austro-Hungarians and a skirt-chaser, but nothing like his uncle who is big in every way. Gruja's frustrations are channelled towards his servant Bole and his sidekick Čeda Velja. Very much inspired by the British series 'Black Adder', this series in the meantime also resulted in two full-length movies and holds a cult status among the audiences, not only in Serbia but also in the surrounding countries.