Life Is a Trumpet has a loose jazz musician as the groom, a butcher as his father, and two families of different backgrounds whose members are not as different as one might expect.
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.
The story retrospectively returns to the past of the noble Lenić Remetinski family through the stories of the last descendant, old woman Amalija. The novella talks about a frequent subject of 19th century prose, which is the decline of the nobility during the industrial revolution.
Musicologist and professor Kosor wakes up in a hospital. He has survived a serious car accident. In a bed next to his lies the amiable economist Gajski, whose wife Melita regularly visits him. This unusually beautiful woman is the first person that Kosor sees after he gains consciousness and is completely enchanted by her. Kosor becomes obsessed by Melita’s physical beauty and her trustworthy character and begins a risky game of writing and sending her anonymous love letters…
Zlatko Vitez (born 22 June 1950 in Varaždin) is a Croatian theatre and film actor. He also served as the Croatian Minister of Culture in the period between October 1994 and November 1995 in the Cabinet of Nikica Valentić. Vitez graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art in 1972 and went on to appear in about a hundred theatre productions at several prominent theatres, including the Gavella Drama Theatre and the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. Between the mid-1970s and late 1990s he also appeared in a number of Croatian television and feature films, most notably of which was the leading role in Zvonimir Berković's 1985 film Love Letters with Intent (Ljubavna pisma s predumišljajem).
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