Tranquilizer Gun
Tranquilizer Gun (Puška za uspavljivanje) is a 1997 Croatian film directed by Hrvoje Hribar.
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Directed by | Hrvoje Hribar |
Written by | Hrvoje Hribar, Ivan Vidić[1] |
Starring | Rene Medvešek Alma Prica Jelena Miholjević Nina Violić Filip Šovagović Vili Matula Igor Tkalec Dražen Kühn |
Music by | Svadbas[1] |
Cinematography | Slobodan Trninić[1] |
Edited by | Slaven Zečević[1] |
Production company | |
Release date | 1997[1] |
Running time | 116 minutes[1] |
Country | Croatia |
Language | Croatian |
Plot
Janko (Rene Medvešek), a police officer, meets Marta (Alma Prica), a widow of Karlo Štajner, a war profiteer who left his business in disarray. Janko can't decide between Marta and Nana (Nina Violić), his kleptomaniac wife. Janko's affair with Marta unwittingly gets him involved in a complex criminal plot...[1][2]
Reception
The critics praised the actors[1][3] and the film's visual style,[1] but found it lacking in energy[2][3] and suffering from an overly complicated plot towards the end.[1]
Tranquilizer Gun did not find success either at the Pula Film Festival or the Croatian box office - partly due to inadequate promotion - but received the 1998 Oktavijan Award from the Croatian Association of Film Critics.[1]
References
- Gilić, Nikica (2008). "Puška za uspavljivanje". Filmski leksikon (in Croatian). Zagreb: Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- "Puška za uspavljivanje". hrfilm.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Film Association. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- Antulov, Dragan (1998). "Puška za uspavljivanje". film.purger.com (in Croatian). Retrieved 26 March 2015.