Tranquilizer Gun

Tranquilizer Gun
Tranquilizer Gun
Directed by	Hrvoje Hribar
Written by	Hrvoje Hribar, Ivan Vidić
Starring	Rene Medvešek; Alma Prica; Jelena Miholjević; Nina Violić; Filip Šovagović; Vili Matula; Igor Tkalec; Dražen Kühn
Cinematography	Slobodan Trninić
Edited by	Slaven Zečević
Music by	Svadbas
Production; companies	FIZ, Croatian Radiotelevision
Release date	1997;
Running time	116 minutes
Country	Croatia
Language	Croatian

Tranquilizer Gun (Puška za uspavljivanje) is a 1997 Croatian film directed by Hrvoje Hribar [hr] and starring Rene Medvešek, Alma Prica, Jelena Miholjević, and Nina Violić.

Plot

Janko (Medvešek), a police officer, meets Marta (Prica), a widow of Karlo Štajner, a war profiteer who left his business in disarray. Janko can't decide between Marta and Nana (Violić), his kleptomaniac wife. Janko's affair with Marta unwittingly gets him involved in a complex criminal plot.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Rene Medvešek as Janko
Alma Prica as Marta
Nina Violić as Nana

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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Gilić, Nikica (2008). "Puška za uspavljivanje". Filmski leksikon (in Croatian). Zagreb: Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Puška za uspavljivanje". hrfilm.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Film Association. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
^ ^a ^b Antulov, Dragan (1998). "Puška za uspavljivanje". film.purger.com (in Croatian). Retrieved 26 March 2015.

External links

Tranquilizer Gun at IMDb

[LZMK-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Gilić, Nikica (2008). "Puška za uspavljivanje". Filmski leksikon (in Croatian). Zagreb: Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. Retrieved 25 March 2015.

[hrfilm-2] "Puška za uspavljivanje". hrfilm.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Film Association. Retrieved 24 April 2019.

[purger-3] Antulov, Dragan (1998). "Puška za uspavljivanje". film.purger.com (in Croatian). Retrieved 26 March 2015.

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