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Filip (Dragutin KlobuÄar) and Stanko (Ivo Serdar) are two young clerks who share an office in a nondescript company. The two are also amateur rowers who train together. Their personalities are quite different: while Filip is fastidious, serious in relationships with women, and somewhat introverted
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river in the morning, collaborating in the office during the day, and going out in the evening looking for female company - all trying desperately to escape from the tedium of everyday life. They see their senior colleague Jurak (Zvonimir Rogoz) as a dinosaur, dreading the possibility of becoming
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remained his only feature film. As his academic career was taking off, he felt that it made no sense to pursue film directing, a field in which his contributions were not appreciated. Ultimately, PeterliÄ came to be best known for his scholarly work, which earned him the title of the "father of
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was the only feature film of Ante
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