Transatlantic (1998)
January 1, 1998Release Date
Transatlantic (1998)
January 1, 1998Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Melita Jurišić
Zorka
Filip Šovagović
Jakov
Alen Liverić
Luka
Rahim Abdel Ahmed
Actor
Boris Dvornik
Bare
Davor Antolić
Actor
Mladen Juran
Director
Mate Matišić
Writer
Božidar Violić
Writer
Nenad Bach
Composer
Vedran Beštvina
Lik koji sjedi u Saloonu
Ivo Gregurević
Saša
Goran Grgić
Austrijski časnik
Slavko Juraga
Franjo
Davor Jureško
Barmen
Jadranka Krajina
Nadzornica
Galiano Pahor
Talijanski imigrant u Americi
Tomislav Martić
Dalibor Martinec
Antonija Maronić
Damir Mejovšek
Dubravka Mudronja
Mustafa Nadarević
Filip Nola
Mojmir Novaković
Matija Prskalo
Damir Klemenić
Čedomila Jurag
Dane Jelić
Špiro Guberina
Zdravko Mamić
Damir Šaban
Ive Šikić Balara
Vjeranko Šikić
Tvrtko Stipić
Relja Bašić
Slavko Brankov
Boris Festini
Lidija Bajlić
Duje Belamarić
Asim Bukva
Vladimir Dodig-Trokut
Slobodan Domitrović
Josip Genda
Tomislav Gotovac
Marko Lapov-Mijatov
Danko Ljuština
Darko Krofak
Details.
Release DateJanuary 1, 1998
Original NameTransatlantik
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 47m
Genres
Wiki.
Transatlantic is a 1998 Croatian crime film directed by Mladen Juran- Nomination for the main prize in Latin America , Official Competition 15 Mar del Plata International Film Festival (first film in independent Croatia in the official competition of the world's A Festival), 1999. Official program of the Moscow International Film Festival, (A festival), 1999. Winner 4 Golden Arenas Pula Film Festival, 1998. Kodak Award, 1998. The film was selected as the Croatian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards.
PLOT
A movie epic about emigration, roots, America, Croatia, organized crime, love, loneliness, fate, the existential measure of everyone’s life, whether thatlife in monumental, ordinary, null or simply human. This taboo-theme in Croatian culture is brilliantly realized in the genre of a social psychological drama with melodramatic, criminal and adventure elements. This “MichaelCiminoesque” film was successfully presented in Los Angeles cinemas as the Croatian Oscar nomination - for best foreign film in 1998." - R. G. Tilly, 2003.
Forced by poverty and possible mobilization, Jakov flees to America in 1918., as a war deserter, together with his cousin Luka. The opportunity came when Miho, the owner of the immigration hotel in Pittsburgh sends a letter to Jakov to find him a Croatian wife. A young girl Zorka leaves her home to marry Miho, revolted by the pressure of Jakov's mother, who already married her son with a bit wealthier, but unloved Ivana. In America, Miho understands the situation and instead of marrying Zorka, he is generously sending money home for Jakov's escape. Croats immigrated since the modern migrations ever started. At the beginning of the 20th century they travel mostly as the mariners, as an example four of them were on the first and final voyage of the Titanic. They are leaving in South and North America because of famine and political persecutions. The fate of many immigrants is sublimated in the fate of Jakov and Zorka.