Tranquilizer Gun

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| name = Tranquilizer Gun

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| director = Hrvoje Hribar

| producer =

| writer = Hrvoje Hribar, Ivan Vidić

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| starring = Rene Medvešek
Alma Prica
Jelena Miholjević
Nina Violić
Filip Šovagović
Vili Matula
Igor Tkalec
Dražen Kühn

| music = Svadbas

| cinematography = Slobodan Trninić

| editing = Slaven Zečević

| studio = FIZ, Croatian Radiotelevision

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| released = {{Film date|1997|ref1=}}

| runtime = 116 minutes

| country = Croatia

| language = Croatian

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Tranquilizer Gun (Puška za uspavljivanje) is a 1997 Croatian film directed by {{ill|Hrvoje Hribar|hr}} and starring Rene Medvešek, Alma Prica, Jelena Miholjević, and Nina Violić.

Plot

Janko (Medvešek), a police officer, meets Marta (Prica), a widow of Karlo Štajner, a war profiteer who left his business in disarray. Janko can't decide between Marta and Nana (Violić), his kleptomaniac wife. Janko's affair with Marta unwittingly gets him involved in a complex criminal plot.

Cast

Rene Medvešek as Janko
Alma Prica as Marta
Nina Violić as Nana

Reception

The critics praised the actors and the film's visual style, but found it lacking in energy and suffering from an overly complicated plot towards the end.

Tranquilizer Gun did not find success either at the Pula Film Festival or the Croatian box office - partly due to inadequate promotion - but received the 1998 Oktavijan Award from the Croatian Association of Film Critics.