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1990 film directed by Zoran Tadić

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Also known as Orao

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1990 film directed by Zoran Tadić

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Eagle is a 1990 Croatian film directed by Zoran Tadić. It is based on Umjetni orao, a novel by Pavao Pavličić.

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Eagle (Croatian: Orao) is a 1990 Croatian film directed by Zoran Tadić. It is based on Umjetni orao, a novel by Pavao Pavličić.

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Plot summary

Radovan Orlak, known to his friends as Orao (Eagle), fell to his death off a high-rise building on his birthday. Upon hearing the news, four of his long-time friends—Milan, Dražen, Krešo and Vlado—realize how little they actually knew about him and begin to investigate in the hopes of uncovering what really happened. They assume their friend has committed suicide, and begin to exact revenge on people whom they deem responsible. After a while, they find out that Orao was seen with an unidentified man on the night of his death, and begin to suspect he was actually murdered.

Cast

Vlatko Dulić as Vlado

Ivica Vidović as Krešo

Zdenko Jelčić as Milan

Božidar Orešković as Dražen

Fabijan Šovagović as Kristofić

Gordana Gadžić as Zlatka

Ksenija Pajić as Branka

Iva Marjanović as Jasna

Ljiljana Bogojević as Zdravka

Renata Ćurković as Marjana

Otokar Levaj as the secretary

Smiljka Bencet as the cleaning lady

Boris Festini as the violinist

Release and reception

Shortly after the film was completed, Marjan Film went bankrupt, which was followed by the outbreak of Yugoslav Wars. As a result, the film was never distributed theatrically.

While Croatian Film Association's database assessed Eagle as Tadić's weakest film to date, Croatian film critic Nenad Polimac listed it in his 2007 selection of "lost classics" of Croatian cinema.

Article from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), where it is maintained by volunteer editors.

Also known as Orao

Notable quotes

“When God made the oyster, he guaranteed his absolute economic and social security. He built the oyster a house, his shell, to shelter and protect him from his enemies... But when God made the Eagle, He declared, "The blue sky is the limit—build your own house!"… The Eagle, not the oyster, is the emblem of America.”
— Anonymous; reported in Jacob M. Braude, Braude's Source Book for Speakers and Writers (1968), p. 14; Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
“I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.”
— Benjamin Franklin, letter to Sarah Bache (January 26, 1784).
“And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.”
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851), "The Try-Works".

Article

Eagle (Croatian: Orao) is a 1990 Croatian film directed by Zoran Tadić. It is based on Umjetni orao, a novel by Pavao Pavličić.

Contents

Plot summary

Radovan Orlak, known to his friends as Orao (Eagle), fell to his death off a high-rise building on his birthday. Upon hearing the news, four of his long-time friends—Milan, Dražen, Krešo and Vlado—realize how little they actually knew about him and begin to investigate in the hopes of uncovering what really happened. They assume their friend has committed suicide, and begin to exact revenge on people whom they deem responsible. After a while, they find out that Orao was seen with an unidentified man on the night of his death, and begin to suspect he was actually murdered.

Cast

Vlatko Dulić as Vlado

Ivica Vidović as Krešo

Zdenko Jelčić as Milan

Božidar Orešković as Dražen

Fabijan Šovagović as Kristofić

Gordana Gadžić as Zlatka

Ksenija Pajić as Branka

Iva Marjanović as Jasna

Ljiljana Bogojević as Zdravka

Renata Ćurković as Marjana

Otokar Levaj as the secretary

Smiljka Bencet as the cleaning lady

Boris Festini as the violinist

Release and reception

Shortly after the film was completed, Marjan Film went bankrupt, which was followed by the outbreak of Yugoslav Wars. As a result, the film was never distributed theatrically.

While Croatian Film Association's database assessed Eagle as Tadić's weakest film to date, Croatian film critic Nenad Polimac listed it in his 2007 selection of "lost classics" of Croatian cinema.

Article from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), where it is maintained by volunteer editors.

Eagle is a 1990 Croatian film directed by Zoran Tadić. It is based on Umjetni orao, a novel by Pavao Pavličić.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Eagle: large carnivorous bird · heraldic bird · village in Lincolnshire, England, UK · city in Ada County, Idaho, United States

Notable quotes

“When God made the oyster, he guaranteed his absolute economic and social security. He built the oyster a house, his shell, to shelter and protect him from his enemies... But when God made the Eagle, He declared, "The blue sky is the limit—build your own house!"… The Eagle, not the oyster, is the emblem of America.”
— Anonymous; reported in Jacob M. Braude, Braude's Source Book for Speakers and Writers (1968), p. 14; Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
“I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.”
— Benjamin Franklin, letter to Sarah Bache (January 26, 1784).
“And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.”
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851), "The Try-Works".

“Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change form does not change.”

— Louis Sullivan, "The tall office building artistically considered" in Lippincott's Magazine (March 1896).

“Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.”

— Matthew, XXIV, 28.

“And little eagles wave their wings in gold.”

— Alexander Pope, Moral Essays. Epistle to Addison, line 30.

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