The Priest's Children

Jan 3, 2013

1h 33m

★ 6.4

Overview

Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Zillion Film

Interfilm

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Cast

Don Fabijan

Krešimir Mikić

Petar

Nikša Butijer

Marija

Marija Škaričić

Marin

Dražen Kuhn

Luda Ana

Jadranka Đokić

Biskup

Lazar Ristovski

Jure

Goran Bogdan

Don Jakov

Zdenko Botić

Don Šimun

Filip Križan

Luka

Ivan Brkić

Učitelj Vinko

Marinko Prga

Gradonačelnik

Stojan Matavulj

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