Tranquilizer Gun

This article is about the Croatian film. For the weapon, see tranquilizer gun.

Tranquilizer Gun
Directed by	Hrvoje Hribar
Written by	Hrvoje Hribar, Ivan Vidić [1]
Starring	Rene Medvešek Alma Prica Jelena Miholjević Nina Violić Filip Šovagović Vili Matula Igor Tkalec Dražen Kühn
Cinematography	Slobodan Trninić [1]
Edited by	Slaven Zečević [1]
Music by	Svadbas [1]
Production companies	FIZ, Croatian Radiotelevision [1]
Release date	1997 (1997) [1]
Running time	116 minutes [1]
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

1. Gilić, Nikica (2008). "Puška za uspavljivanje". Filmski leksikon (in Croatian). Zagreb: Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography . Retrieved 25 March 2015.
2. "Puška za uspavljivanje". hrfilm.hr (in Croatian). Croatian Film Association . Retrieved 24 April 2019.
3. Antulov, Dragan (1998). "Puška za uspavljivanje". film.purger.com (in Croatian). Retrieved 26 March 2015.

External links

• Tranquilizer Gun at IMDb