Movies by Janez Vrhovec

Adventure at the Door

Adventure at the Door

Story of the dream of a lonely woman lying mentally ill in a sanatorium.

Natural Boundaries

Natural Boundaries

A middle-aged man married a young woman but his war memories and her lack of them stand between them.

Vortex

Vortex

Yugoslavian anthology movie with three stories. "Father": Germans are taking hostages, peasants from local fields. One old man is begging for German officer to release his sons. Officer offers him releasing of one of his sons, but other will be shot. "Swamp": Two Partisans are in swamp, surrounded by enemies. One of them is wounded, and other one wants to save him by any cost. "Ada": Story about twist of fate, when father and son find them self on different side of the gunpoint.

The Trek

The Trek

A story of a farmer and his calf, the only survivors of the German WW2 punitive expeditions that passed through their village. While evading before the dangers of war, the farmer develops a deep attachment to his calf and tries to save it at all costs, but it wouldn't be much easier for them even after the liberation day.

Caroline of Rijeka

Caroline of Rijeka

The movie Karolina Rijecka is loosely based on the legendary story of young Karolina Belinic. When the English fleet began firing cannons on the Adriatic port of Rijeka, young Karolina boarded the ship of English Admiral John Leard and negotiated a cease-fire to save the town from destruction.

The Boy and the Violin

The Boy and the Violin

The war is over. Children without mothers and fathers, children of fighters who fell for freedom...This is the story about such boys who placed in the homes for children of fallen soldiers. One of these homes was especially for boys with gift for music. One of them was a boy named Goran. he and his best friend exchanged violins. The difference in violins was only in color, but this one reminded him strangely of the past he past. All his boyish feelings and is tender memories of his mother killed in war, Goran put into his music, producing wo...

Enclosure

Enclosure

In a Nazi concentration camp, Karl, a German political prisoner, and David, a Jewish watchmaker, are confined in a small enclosure from which only one of them will be able to go out alive.

Before and After the Victory

Before and After the Victory

A newly established communist authorities in Yugoslavia face the moral challenge of how to deal with warriors of defeated side and other enemies of the regime.

The Good Sea

The Good Sea

A simple fisherman tries to stop wealthy and crooked owner of the seiners and bar.

A Miracle

A Miracle

A drama set in the Middle Ages, based on the folk poem 'Bolani Dojcin', about a sick nobleman who uses the last ounce of strength to put a knight's armor and go, alone, to fight a gang who ravaged his city and drove his sister to death.