Operation Barbarossa is a kids TV show, based on the novel The Mysterious Boy by Ivan Kušan. It is a story about a boy who for some time lives in the belief that he is to blame for the death of a friend, a peer, who drowned in the Sava river. In order to cover up his death, the boy takes his name (because he had just come to Zagreb when he disappeared) also goes to another school. Thus, in two shifts (before noon - afternoon), he tries to be a student in two schools and gets into many dramatic situations. The riddle is, of course, solved by Kušan's main character Koko.
Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1890. A group of high-school students run away on an adventure that ends in scandal. The ringleader, Gusta, is expelled from school and sent to stay with his uncle in rural Turopolje. Here, a totally new world opens up to him, where the internal tragedies of the people are played out against the castle of Brezovica and a small town of wooden-framed houses. People end up in this idyllic exile because of some previous "sin" and try then to make the best of their lives there. But memories of the outside world impinge on their happiness.
Dora Lipovčan (Berlin, July 20, 1977) is a Croatian film, television and theater actress. She graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2002 and currently works at the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb. She plays the vibraphone in the band. Her grandfather was Croatian actor Jozo Martinčević, her mother was musical and political critic Jagoda Majska Martinčević, and her father, journalist and scientist Dr. Srećko Lipovčan.
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