What Is a Man Without a Moustache?
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Promotional poster (Croatian)
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| Directed by | Hrvoje Hribar |
| Produced by | Hrvoje Hribar Mirko Galić |
| Written by |
Ante Tomić (novel) Hrvoje Hribar (screenplay) |
| Starring |
Leon Lučev Zrinka Cvitešić Ivo Gregurević |
| Music by | Tamara Obrovac |
| Cinematography | Silvio Jesenković |
| Edited by | Ivana Fumić |
| Distributed by |
United States: Doors Art Foundation |
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109 minutes |
| Country | Croatia |
| Language | Croatian |
What Is a Man Without a Moustache? (Croatian: Što je muškarac bez brkova?) is a 2005 Croatian romantic comedy-drama film. Hrvoje Hribar directed the film and wrote the screenplay as an adaptation of Ante Tomić's 2000 novel of the same name.
Starring Leon Lučev and Zrinka Cvitešić and set against a background of a country still recovering from the Croatian War of Independence, the film tells the story of a young widow who falls in love with a local priest and a difficult choice that the priest faces when being forced to choose between the woman and his church. It won the audience award at the Pula Film Festival as the favourite film while Zrinka Cvitešić won two festival awards for her performance in the film.
Tatjana (Zrinka Cvitešić) and Miljenko (Robert Ugrina) are a young married Croatian couple living in Germany. Miljenko is killed when he falls while working on a construction site and his employer pays a financial settlement to his young widow. Tatjana then moves back to the rural countryside of Croatia where the couple first met. There she meets Father Stipan (Leon Lučev), an alcoholic Catholic priest of the local rundown church. Tatjana uses the settlement money to make a romantic purchase of the hill where Miljenko proposed to her only to make a small fortune when a local developer discovers precious minerals in the hill and pays Tatjana handsomely for it. She uses her newly acquired riches to purchase a grocery store and a hotel. Tatjana becomes a target for new prospective suitors, including her husband's brother Marinko (Ivo Gregurević), who has also recently returned from Germany. Tatjana falls in love with the troubled priest and offers most of her money to him so that the church can be repaired and the parish does not go bankrupt. Under the local bishop's (Ivica Vidović) threat of relocation if the funds aren't raised, Father Stipan is torn between choosing to accept Tatjana's money to be given to the church and choosing Tatjana's love.
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