Radko Polič

Radko Polič

Birthday: 1942-08-18

Place of Birth: Črnomelj, Slovenia, Yugoslavia

Biography: Radko Polič is an award-winning Slovenian theatre, television and film actor. Born in Črnomelj, Polič's family moved to Belgrade in 1945 and then to West Berlin in 1949 before returning to Slovenia and settling in Ljubljana in 1954. He started acting in the early 1960s and during his career spanning over four decades, he played in over 150 theatre and film productions. He starred in stage productions all around Slovenia and appeared in a number of Yugoslav feature films.Polič won numerous awards for his work, including the Golden Arena for Best Actor at the 1976 Pula Film Festival (the Yugoslav national film awards) for his role in Igor Pretnar's film Idealist, and the Prešeren Award for Life Achievement in 2007.

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1/2
1/2

The film "1/2" is a story about two neighbors separated by a thin wall. Klara’s daily life begins at...

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Balkan Express
Balkan Express

In this entertaining, clever satire, it is the beginning of World War II and a group of con artists ...

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Tantadruj
Tantadruj

A world between the dreams and reality, between commonsense pragmatism and madness, between earthly ...

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Gypsy Eyes
Gypsy Eyes

A security officer tracks down the Gypsy girl who can identify an American diplomat's killer....

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Mathilde
Mathilde

A young girl attempts to kill a UN peacekeeper after the war in Croatia, leading to an investigation...

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Good Times, Bad Times
Good Times, Bad Times

Sitting in a restaurant representing the waiting room to the other world, a tired old man watches th...

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In the Jaws of Life
In the Jaws of Life

Two parallel tales about two modern women. One is Štefica Cvek, average and lonely girl who desperat...

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Diver
Diver

A man who works in a travel agency sees his chance to quit his job and do nothing for a while after ...

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Balkan Express 2
Balkan Express 2

A group of musicians, whose band is called "Balkan express", in fact a quintet of small-time crooks ...

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Taiwan Canasta
Taiwan Canasta

A frustrated and unemployed architect experiences flashbacks of his youth and 1968 protests while th...

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Volunteers
Volunteers

In this amusing antiwar comedy, seven inept and reluctant soldiers land on a desert island to carry ...

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Courtyard
Courtyard

In a block of flats at the edge of town the local children enjoy playing basketball in their courtya...

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Samek
Samek

Dramatic story of the Sarajevo photographer Matthew Samek during World War II. Samek experiences his...

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The Widowhood of Karolina Žašler
The Widowhood of Karolina Žašler

As she tries to cope with the changes in Yugoslav rural life brought about by increasing modernizati...

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The Battle of the Eagles
The Battle of the Eagles

The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts....

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Night Boats
Night Boats

Seventy-year-old teenagers running away from home. They are not running away from their parents, the...

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Libertas
Libertas

The film is set in mid-16th century, at a time when the entire eastern Mediterranean is dominated by...

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Don't Come Back by the Same Way
Don't Come Back by the Same Way

The story of a few untrained construction workers from poor underdeveloped parts of the country, suc...

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Polikarp
Polikarp

Yugoslavian television horror movie from 1969....

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Winning of Freedom
Winning of Freedom

WW2 has ended, but that doesn't mean the end of problems for an ex-Partisan who now must take care o...

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Headnoise
Headnoise

In Yugoslavia's Livada prison in 1970, inmates led by Keber convince reluctant authorities to let th...

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Night Trip
Night Trip

A couple attends a decadent party where they become victims of salacious jokes. Furious boyfriend le...

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Migrations II
Migrations II

Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski's poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who s...

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Silent Gunpowder
Silent Gunpowder

Silent Gunpowder (Serbo-Croatian: Gluvi barut) is a Yugoslavian war film Based on a novel by Branko...

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Real Pests!
Real Pests!

In Ljubljana lives a bus driver Stebe. He's a widower. He lives with five sons and a maid Rozi. The ...

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The Trap
The Trap

One night in a hotel room spent with unknown woman throws young man into hard nightmare, from which ...

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The Idealist
The Idealist

The movie based upon the classical Slovene novel Martin Kačur, depicts the clash between the teacher...

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Case: Osterberg
Case: Osterberg

After being away for four years, Rok Osterberg returns to his home town to investigate the murder of...

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Fear
Fear

The manager of a whorehouse is in love with a young woman who works as a maid, there. He believes th...

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The Call to Spring
The Call to Spring

In 18th century Slovenia ruled by the Habsburg dynasty, a troop of soldiers are ordered to prevent t...

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Faithful Friends
Faithful Friends

According to Bogdan Novak's literary proposition, Franc Arko wrote a script and shot an action crime...

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The End of War
The End of War

As WW2 comes to an end in the former Yugoslavia, a man without an arm and his young son are on a mis...

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What Is with You, Nina?
What Is with You, Nina?

In search of her own identity, a young champion in fencing is torn between two men, which leads her ...

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The Ravine
The Ravine

In the winter of 1943, deep in the frozen waste of German occupied Yugoslavia, a lone parachute drif...

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Is It Clear, My Friend?
Is It Clear, My Friend?

A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life...

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Every Good Story Is a Love Story
Every Good Story Is a Love Story

A film about a theatre performance and four very notable people behind it: writer and director D. Jo...

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Love Is the Ruin of Us All
Love Is the Ruin of Us All

At the end of the last century hunters who hunted wild roosters, while waiting for prey to show up, ...

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Oxygen
Oxygen

In this story set in near future, a group of young rebels, hippies and 1968 protesters want to cede ...

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Death Ship
Death Ship

The holiday romance of Daniel and Marjana is disturbed by a premonition of an imminent fatal event. ...

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Temptations
Temptations

Some years before WWI, art historian and priest Ciril from Ljubljana and his friend Fritz set out on...

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My Dear Iza
My Dear Iza

The film is a portrait of the Novak family: the results of the marriage between the farmer Novak and...

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The Queen of Hearts
The Queen of Hearts

It was only a card game in the beginning, but then it turned out to be a crime thriller. Frank is a ...

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Love, Kranj Style
Love, Kranj Style

Bevant is a freak who wanted to remain faithful to himself, and therefore, in contrast to most, he r...

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The Cartier Operation
The Cartier Operation

An immigrant worker from Bosnia falls in love with the actress Nastassia Kinski. To be able to appro...

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The Tenth Brother
The Tenth Brother

Based on the novel by Josip Jurcic and set in rural Yugoslavia in the 1840's. The tenth brother of a...

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Moment
Moment

A young man from the banks of the Ibar River goes to the revolutionary war. It turns out to be one o...

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Blanka Kolak's Love
Blanka Kolak's Love

In the wild times of the Second World War, Blanka marries political grandee Pavle, who is shortly af...

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Three Contributions to the Slovenian Madness
Three Contributions to the Slovenian Madness

Omnibus consisting of three segments. The first story is about a fight between the boy's parents, af...

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Charuga
Charuga

This film is based on the true story about Jovan Stanisavljevic alias Charuga, the bandit who became...

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Christophoros
Christophoros

Two men who have been fighting on enemy sides in WWII, find themselves as neighbors many years later...

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The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black

This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, La...

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The Outlaw
The Outlaw

The life of a man who dared to unfold the corruption and mismanagement in his factory takes a wrong ...

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P.S. - Post Scriptum
P.S. - Post Scriptum

A three-part omnibus drama that shows destinies of three grown men: first segment (Escape) is about ...

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Portrait of the Poet with His Double
Portrait of the Poet with His Double

A look at the life and thoughts of France Presern, arguably the most prominent Slovenian poet, as we...

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Falsifier
Falsifier

Our story takes place at the end of the 1960s. This is the time of the collapse of the ideals of a m...

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Double Holidays
Double Holidays

Twin brothers make a plan on how to survive the holidays....

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The State of the Dead
The State of the Dead

When the war in Yugoslavia breaks out, an army officer who's ethnic Slovenian yet still believes in ...

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Heritage
Heritage

This three-part historical epic of the lives and misfortunes of the Vrhunc family in the former Yugo...

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The Igman March
The Igman March

The story of a forced march of the first proletarian shock brigade during World War II....

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Everything Is Different
Everything Is Different

Two brothers are torn apart after finding out they will inherit few millions from their father....

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The Poet of Revolution
The Poet of Revolution

A film made by Danilo Kis's poem "The Revolutionary Poet on the Presidential Ship" on the wreck of T...

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Dog
Dog

Experimental 8mm film by Karpo Godina....

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Beef Trout
Beef Trout

It puts in front the character of the actor Andrej Nahtigal and a section of his life, shot in real ...

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Open Space
Open Space

Summer of 1972, a small group of fanatical Croatian nationalists, trained and equipped by extreme em...

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Hard Way
Hard Way

A 1973 Serbo-Croatian-Italian language drama film directed by Matjaž Klopčič, starring Mira Stupica,...

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Black Orchid
Black Orchid

The film follows Ruža, a woman who returns to her hometown after a long absence. She faces challenge...

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The Village Teacher
The Village Teacher

The protagonist is a young man, a former athlete, now a gym teacher. He is essentially a disappointe...

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