''The Glembays'' ( hr, Glembajevi) is a

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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 beca ...

starring

Mustafa Nadarević Mustafa Nadarević (2 May 1943 – 22 November 2020) was a Bosnian and Croatian actor. Widely considered one of the greatest actors from the former Yugoslavia, he starred in over 70 films, including '' The Smell of Quinces'' (1982), ''When Father ...

and

Ena Begović Ena Begović (8 July 1960 – 15 August 2000) was a prominent Yugoslav film actress. She is regarded as one of the best and most beautiful actresses in former Yugoslavia. Early life and career Begović was born in Trpanj to Terezija and Nikola ...

. The film is an adaptation of

Miroslav Krleža Miroslav Krleža (; 7 July 1893 – 29 December 1981) was a Yugoslav and Croatian writer who is widely considered to be the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century. He wrote notable works in all the literary genres, including poetry (''Ba ...

's 1929 play '' Messrs. Glembay'' (''Gospoda Glembajevi'') and was produced by Televizija Zagreb and Jadran Film.

Plot

It is a period piece set in 1913 in

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(which was at the time part of

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) and follows members of the fictional Glembay family, headed by Ignjat Glembay (

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), a prominent banker, and his second wife baroness Castelli (

). Eleven years after his mother's suicide, Leone Glembay (

) returns from abroad to his family home in Zagreb. He is haunted by depressing memories, particularly by thoughts of his deceased mother, his sister who committed suicide, and the Baroness Castelli, his father's second wife. The only member of his family that Leone confides in is Beatrice (Bernarda Oman), his brother Ivan's widow, who in the meantime became a nun and renamed herself Angelika. Leone witnesses omnipresent hypocrisy in the family and is repulsed by the criminal means through which his family became rich. Ultimately, Leone confronts his father and the baroness.

Cast

...''Leone Glembay'' *

...''barunica Castelli'' *

...''Ignjat Glembay'' * Bernarda Oman...''Beatrice, Sister Angelika'' * Matko Raguž...''Silberbrant'' * Žarko Potočnjak...''Puba Fabriczy'' * Zvonimir Zoričić...''Franz'' *

Zvonko Štrmac Zvonko ( sr-Cyrl, Звонко) is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Zvonko Bego (born 1940), former Croatian footballer * Zvonko Bogdan (born 1942), Serbian performer of traditional folk songs of Serbia, Croatia, Hung ...

...''Titus Androcius Fabriczy'' *

Zvonimir Rogoz Zvonimir Rogoz (10 October 1887 – 6 February 1988) was a Croatian actor who played in German, Croatian, Slovenian, Czech and Slovakian, on stage and in cinema, during a career long 81 years. A native of Zagreb, Rogoz started his actor ...

...''Older Gentleman'' *

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...''beggaress Fanika Canjeg''

Reception

In 1999, a poll of Croatian film fans found it to be one of the best Croatian films ever made.

Awards

The film won three Golden Arena awards at the 1988

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, including Best Actor (Mustafa Nadarević), Best Supporting Actress (Ena Begović) and Costimography (Ika Škomrlj). However, Ena Begović refused to accept her award on the grounds that her part was in fact a leading role.

Trivia

The actor Zvonimir Rogoz, the doyen of Croatian cinematography, was 100 when he made this movie.

References

External links

*
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