Zabranjena ljubav

Television series
Original title	Zabranjena ljubav
Country of production	Croatia
original language	Croatian
Production company	Fremantle Media
length	25 minutes
Episodes	805 in 4 seasons
genre	Soap opera
Theme music	Toše Proeski - Srce nije came
production	2004-2008
First broadcast	October 25, 2004 on RTL Televizija
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Zabranjena ljubav (in German: Forbidden Love, abbreviated to ZLJ ) is a Croatian soap opera by RTL Televizija. It was broadcast on weekdays and produced by Fremantle Media . The series is set in and around Zagreb .

Charisma

The broadcast of the soap began in October 2004. It produced 4 seasons with a total of 805 episodes, each with three summer breaks . The show was discontinued because the filming became too expensive and the audience ratings continued to decline. There is a minimal possibility that the soap opera will be produced again, but this has not been officially confirmed.

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Zabranjena ljubav is about young and old people who struggle with everyday problems. It includes the typical themes of a soap opera such as homosexuality, crime or deadly diseases. The show is a remake of the Australian soap opera Sons and Daughters and even copies the initial story and character constellations. At the beginning, the series was more like a telenovela, as it was heavily focused on the story of the couple Petra Novak and Danijel Lončar.

Beginning of the series

Petra Novak, daughter of the influential couple Stjepan and Viktorija Novak, is returning from London after completing her photography degree. At the train station she meets Danijel Lončar, who has returned from Italy after losing his job there. But they part ways quickly, because, as luck would have it, both celebrate their 22nd birthday on the same day. As it turns out later, Petra and Danijel are siblings who were torn apart a few months after their birth because their parents separated. While Petra grew up with her mother Viktorija, who married the rich widower Stjepan, Danijel grew up with his father Josip, who later married the nurse Biserka Fijan and had two more children with her named Matija and Iva. Danijel, who applies to work as a gardener on the Novaks estate, is paid by Viktorija to disappear from their lives. Only when Petra urgently needs a bone marrow donation, Viktorija tells her son who he really is, so that Danijel can save his sister's life. Since they now know that they are siblings, Petra and Danijel are not allowed to love each other.

Further development

Petra and Danijel each have their own relationship with Maja Vuković and Leon Bauer, the son of fashion designer Lidija Bauer. However, the story about the two of them loses more and more importance as the series progresses. The focus is on the newly sparked affair between Viktorija and Josip, which ends after Viktorija is murdered by a former girlfriend. Nevertheless, this means the end of Josip's marriage to Biserka. The illegal machinations of Stjepan's returned wife Karolina, whose son Borna and Biserka's unscrupulous brother Zlatko Fijan want to work their way to the top, are also important. Even classic elements of a soap opera, such as outing Leons as homosexual, as well as his subsequent serial death in a car accident or time-limited storylines through love affairs are increasingly being incorporated.

After their failed relationships, Petra falls into a marriage with Igor Carević and Danijel in an affair with his stepcousin Ana. After these fail too, they accidentally get closer to each other on a trip to Split with the Novak family and even sleep together. When Stjepan finds out about this and there is an argument between him and Danijel, Danijel falls into the sea and drowns. Petra finds this difficult to deal with and after suffering a miscarriage as a result of a car accident, she decides to leave Zagreb to start a new life. Shortly afterwards, Stjepan, who saw through Karolina's scheming me, also leaves Croatia with his new love Lidija.

With the arrival of the businessman Jure Šarić, a new intigrant joins the series, who enters into a relationship with Karolina, which she uses for her own purposes. The dark past of Croatia is also worked out, which can be seen in the fate of other new characters. In the meantime, the newly developed siblings Nikola, Antun and Marijana Benčić lost their parents to the war. And the coffee house owner Nada Barić finds her son Luka Lausić, who was believed to be dead, and her missing friend Marinko Ruzić. Marinko had once abandoned Luka in front of a monastery (he is now a Catholic pastor) and fled and the USA .

After his divorce from Gabrijela, Zlatko begins a relationship with Lidija Bauer's daughter Tina Bauer, whom he eventually marries. When he learns that she has had an affair with Antun Benčić for a long time, an argument breaks out on the wedding night, in which Tina falls and falls into a coma. After an attempted murder on Antun, Zlatko tries to kill the awakened Tina, which is prevented. For fear of being arrested by the police, Zlatko rams the knife with which he actually wanted to kill Tina in the stomach and bleeds to death. Ana, taken by these events, begins a relationship with her ex-boyfriend Nikola Benčić, with whom she finally emigrates to her mother in Argentina .

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main actor

Sorted according to the order of entry.

actor	role	Years
Zoran Pribičević	Danijel Lončar †	2004-2006
Anita Berisha	Petra Lončar, recognized, adopt. Novak	2004-2006 2006-2008
Mario Valentić	Borna Novak	2004-2008
Mario Mohenski	Leon Bauer # 1	2004
Dejan Marcikić	Igor Carevic	2004-2008
Filip Riđički	Matija Lončar	2004-2006
Vanja Matujec	Biserka Lončar, b. Fijan	2004-2007
Marija Kobić	Iva Lončar	2004-2007
Sanja Vejnović	Viktorija Novak †	2004-2005
Petra Kurtela	Lana Kos	2004-2006
Dražen Mikulić	Josip Lončar	2004-2005 2006 (guest appearance)
Katja Zubčić	Lidija Bauer	2004–2006 2007 (guest appearance)
Velimir Čokljat	Stjepan Novak	2004-2006
Antonija Šola	Tina Bauer	2004-2008
Mirna Medaković	Maja Vuković	2004-2005
Marina Kostelac	Vesna Kos	2004-2005
Ivan Martinec	Ljubomir "Ljubo" Carević	2004-2006
Nada Rocco	Nada Baric	2004-2008
Marin Knežević	Leon Bauer # 2 †	2004-2005
Vesna Tominac Matačić	Karolina Novak (†)	2005-2008
Mirsad Tuka	Zlatko Fijan †	2005-2007
Jelena Perčin	Ana Fijan	2005-2007
Mario Mlinarić	Jakov Barišić	2005-2006 2007-2008
Marko Čabov	Nikola Benčić	2006-2007
Jozo Šuker	Antun "Tuna" Benčić	2006-2008
Vladimir Tintor	Franjo Barišić	2006-2008
Maja Petrin †	Dunja Barišić	2006-2008
Robert Plemic	Luka Laušić	2006-2008
Zoran Gogic	Jure Šarić (†)	2006-2008
Anđela Ramljak	Marijana Benčić	2006-2008
Frano Lasić	Marinko Ružić	2006-2008
Danira Gović	Anđelina Kovač	2007-2008
Lorena Nosić	Mirna Šarić	2007-2008

supporting cast

actor	Role name	Year (s)
Matija Prskalo	Stela Vidak	2004
Zijad Gračić	Tomislav Kos †	2004
Vjekoslav Janković	Sebastijan Vidušić	2004-2005
Žarko Savić	Maksimilijan "Max" Baric	2005
Monika Nuši	Dora Lončar	2005-2007
Vanda Božić	Andrea Kirin	2006
Mayala Bracha	Amani Lončar	2006
Barbara Vicković	Gabrijela Fijan	2006-2007
Luka Peroš	Adrijan Tomas	2006
Vlasta Ramljak	Marija	2006
Nela Kočiš	Jennifer Vidak	2006
Goran Vrbanić	Tom Ružić # 1	2007
Mario Lukajic	Tom Ružić # 2 †	2007-2008
Ozren Domiter	Ivica Šarić	2008
Sandra Bagarić	Eleonora Šarić	2008

Character timeline

Web links

• Zabranjena ljubav in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sapunica "Zabranjena ljubav" prestaje s emitiranjem? (Croatian)
2. ↑ Hoće li se snimati nove epizode? (Croatian)