''Long Dark Night'' ( hr, Duga mračna noć) is a 2004 Croatian film dealing with

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and its aftermath. It was

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Antun Vrdoljak Antun Vrdoljak (; born 5 June 1931) is a Croatian film actor and director, sports official, and head of Croatian Radiotelevision during the Yugoslav Wars. Between the 1960s and early 1990s he was mainly a film artist. In the early 1990s he becam ...

and starred

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. It was Croatia's submission to the

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for the

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, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film was also adapted into a 13-episode TV series broadcast by the

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in 2005.

Cast

- Ivan Kolar - Iva *

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- Španac *

Ivo Gregurević Ivo Gregurević (; 7 October 1952 – 1 January 2019) was a Croatian film, theatre and television actor. Throughout over a quarter of a century, Gregurević played rural bullies and arrogant nouveau riche and became one of Croatia's best known a ...

- Major * Goran Navojec - Matija Čačić - Mata *

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- Luka Kolar *

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- Joka * - Vera Kolar * Žarko Potočnjak - Alojz *

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- Kata * Alen Liverić - Jozef Schmit * Goran Grgić - Franz Kirchmeier *

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- Robert Neuman

References

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* 2004 films Croatian World War II films Films directed by Antun Vrdoljak Films shot in Croatia Croatian war films War films set in Partisan Yugoslavia 2000s war films {{Croatia-film-stub