Leon Lučev is a Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

n actor.

Lučev had his feature film debut in Vinko Brešan

Vinko Brešan

Vinko Brešan is a Croatian film director who emerged into international renown with three critically acclaimed and award-winning films that, each in its own way, broke some of the perceived taboos of Croatian cinema in the 1990s....

's 1996 comedy How the War Started on My Island

How the War Started on My Island

How the War Started on My Island is a 1996 Croatian black comedy film directed by Vinko Brešan and starring Vlatko Dulić, Ljubomir Kerekeš, Ivan Brkić, Predrag Vušović, Ivica Vidović, Božidar Orešković and Matija Prskalo...

. Since then he frequently appeared in a number of Croatian and Bosnian films, including two drama films directed by Jasmila Žbanić

Jasmila Žbanic

Jasmila Žbanić is a film director from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a graduate of Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, department for theater and film directing. She also worked as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater and as a clown in a Lee De Long workshop. She is noted for the...

, Grbavica

Grbavica (film)

Grbavica is a 2006 film by Jasmila Žbanić about the life of a single mother in contemporary Sarajevo in the aftermath of systematic rapes of Bosniak women by Serbian troops during the war...

(2006) and On the Path

On the Path

On the Path is a 2010 Bosnian and Herzegovinan drama film directed by Jasmila Žbanić.-Plot:Luna and Amar are a young Bosnian couple living in Sarajevo. Both have traumatic memories from the Bosnian War of the 1990's. Luna had seen her parents killed by an anti-Muslim militia in Bijeljina, and had...

(Na putu, 2008).

Lučev won the Golden Arena for Best Supporting Actor award at the 2008 Pula Film Festival

Pula Film Festival

The Pula Film Festival is the oldest Croatian film festival which is held annually in a Roman amphitheater known as the Pula arena since 1954. The festival is usually held in the summer, in July or August....

, the Croatian national film awards, for his role in Vinko Brešan's 2008 film Will Not End Here

Will Not End Here

Will Not End Here is a Croatian film directed by Vinko Brešan. It was released in 2008....

(Nije kraj) and the Best Actor award at the 2008 Sarajevo Film Festival

Sarajevo Film Festival

The Sarajevo Film Festival is the premier and largest film festival in the Balkans, and is one of the largest in Europe. It was founded in Sarajevo in 1995 during the siege of Sarajevo, and brings international and local celebrities to Sarajevo every year. It is held in August and showcases an...

 for Goran Rušinović

Goran Rušinović

Goran Rušinović is an award-winning Croatian film director and screenwriter.After graduating from the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts Rušinović went on to enrol at the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark in 1993, where he directed his first short film titled Kilo of Shrimp...

's film Buick Riviera.

Selected filmography

• How the War Started on My Island
  How the War Started on My Island
  How the War Started on My Island is a 1996 Croatian black comedy film directed by Vinko Brešan and starring Vlatko Dulić, Ljubomir Kerekeš, Ivan Brkić, Predrag Vušović, Ivica Vidović, Božidar Orešković and Matija Prskalo...
  
  (Kako je počeo rat na mom otoku, 1996)
• Sex, Drink and Bloodshed
  Sex, Drink and Bloodshed
  Sex, Drink and Bloodshed is a Croatian action film. It was released in 2004.-Cast:* Franjo Dijak - * Bogdan Diklić - * Matko Fabeković - * Admir Glamočak -...
  
  (Sex piće i krvoproliće, 2004)
• What Is a Man Without a Moustache?
  What Is a Man Without a Moustache?
  What Is a Man Without a Moustache? 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....
  
  (Što je muškarac bez brkova?, 2005)
• Grbavica
  Grbavica (film)
  Grbavica is a 2006 film by Jasmila Žbanić about the life of a single mother in contemporary Sarajevo in the aftermath of systematic rapes of Bosniak women by Serbian troops during the war...
  
  (2006)
• The Melon Route
  The Melon Route
  The Melon Route is a Croatian drama film directed by Branko Schmidt. It was released in 2006.-Cast:* Krešimir Mikić - Mirko* Sun Mei - Chinese girl* Leon Lučev - Seki* Armin Omerović - Meho* Emir Hadžihafizbegović - Gojko* Ivo Gregurević - Cale...
  
  (Put lubenica, 2006)
• True Miracle (Pravo čudo, 2007)
• Buick Riviera (2008)
• Will Not End Here
  Will Not End Here
  Will Not End Here is a Croatian film directed by Vinko Brešan. It was released in 2008....
  
  (Nije kraj, 2008)
• Behind the Glass (Iza stakla, 2008)
• On the Path
  On the Path
  On the Path is a 2010 Bosnian and Herzegovinan drama film directed by Jasmila Žbanić.-Plot:Luna and Amar are a young Bosnian couple living in Sarajevo. Both have traumatic memories from the Bosnian War of the 1990's. Luna had seen her parents killed by an anti-Muslim militia in Bijeljina, and had...
  
  (Na putu, 2010)
• Silent Sonata
  Silent Sonata
  Silent Sonata is a 2011 Slovenian drama film directed by Janez Burger and has no dialogue. The main producers are the Slovene Stara Gara and the Irish Fastnet Films. Silent Sonata is the first official Slovene-Irish-Swedish-Finnish co-production and was shot in 35 days in Slovenia and Ireland. The...
  
  (2010)

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