We Are All Dudeks

Story from Croatia

The Tamburitza Players

The Enchanted Prince

People from Gruntovec

The Borderers

Wild Angels

Accidental Life

An Event

Three Hours to Love

The Birch Tree

Flaming Frontier

Nikoletina Bursac

Martin Sagner (11 August 1932 – 12 November 2019) was a Croatian actor, who played many memorable roles in Croatian films, television series and theatre plays during his 43-year career. He is best known for his portrayal of character Dudek in TV series Gruntovčani. In  1955 he graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art at the University of Zagreb and later became a highly respected member of the Croatian National Theatre, both in Zagreb and in Varaždin. He was also a very good violinist.
Sagner fought in the Croatian War of Independence and was missed by an enemy bullet by about 8 inches at Bobovac. Between 1990 and 1995, Sagner was a member of the Croatian Parliament, having won his seat in both the 1990 and the 1992 Croatian parliamentary elections as a representative of the Croatian Democratic Union which won both of these elections.



Martin Sagner