Diploma za smrt (English: The Death Degree) is a 1989 Croatian crime drama film and three part miniseries directed by Živorad Tomić, starring Ranko Zidarić and Filip Šovagović.
Upon graduating from Zagreb Faculty of Economics, Bero struggles to find a decent job, so he does manual labour on a local market.
His girlfriend Vlasta reveals him that she is pregnant but considers having an abortion because they still lack money to make a good living.
Once he took over Grga's business, Bero met Renata, their customer and owner of the Kruna boutique, with whom he soon develops a romantic relationship.
The real owner of these business is Jakov Guberina-Guba (Ivo Gregurević), who resides in Munich and regularly takes fifty percent of their profit.
Bero talks Renata into allowing him to co-run the boutique with her, but parallelly starts plotting with Nik on how to take over their businesses.
In spite of Renata's opinion, Bero gives the loan to the Franc but also ties him with a mortgage agreement.
After phone call from Renata, Nik's wife concludes that "Bero's marriage won't last for long".
Foreseeing the future confrontation, Bero and Nik hire their old buddy Božo as a bodyguard and tell him to get another guy.
Bero and Nik then pay a visit to Franc to get their payment, but since he didn't have the money, they tell him to meet them next day in the public administration office in order to sign over his property to them.
Drunk and depressed Franc gets visit from Guba's bodyguards but after he slaps Rus, the henchmen kill him by throwing a piece of car axle on his head.
Guba's former henchmen then take his body to a construction site, where they bury it under a pile of liquid concrete.
On the next meeting, Bero invites the remaining members at an opening ceremony to Stipe's old place which he now turned into a Brazilian restaurant, named Rio.
Right before attending the ceremony at Rio, Nik receives a phone call from Pavel in which he informs him that he had his daughter kidnapped and that he wants to meet him in exchange for releasing the kid.