The Ambassador
Genres
Overview
Vlado Miljkovic, a former member of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, partisan fighter and retired ambassador, lives in his villa in Zagreb with his children whom he lost contact with, if he ever had one. His daughter Mickey is morbidly devoted to the worship of the cult of her dead mother, and attempts suicide in a state of distress; son Roni plays drums in a rock group and engages in a car theft, while the eldest son Mark has achieved a prestigious career as a doctor, but has problems with his demanding wife and asks father to borrow him money. Complex family relations in the ambassador's house bear witness to central heating repairman...
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
93 min
Release Date
1984-07-10
Status
Released
Original Language
Vote Count
4
Vote Average
5
Miodrag Radovanović
Vlado Miljković
Elizabeta Kukić
Miki
Fabijan Šovagović
Majstor centralnog grijanja
Marija Kohn
Štefica
Željko Königsknecht
Roni
Vojislav Brajović
Mark
Nina Erak-Svrtan
Markova supruga
Inge Appelt
Ana
Vanja Matujec
Pjevačica rock sastava
Ljubomir 'Kiki' Kapor
Jurica Dijaković
Mate Ergović
Boris Kovačević
Igor Hajdarhodžić
Vesna Vrabec
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