During his study, he performed as an actor and worked with the theater, television and film, assisting directors Michael Cacoyannis, Abel Gance and Med Hondo.
Since 1973, he created more than 200 films and television series - Last Post Zagreb (Original Music Score by Croatian vibraphonist Boško Petrović), Zagreb's Greetings, Zagreb's Panopticum, Scenes of the Last Century - of various genres including - the full-length features Thirty Horses (1987), a comedy about the consequences of the totalitarian system which he directed from a screenplay by Ivo Brešan and with a number of renowned actors, including: Boris Dvornik, Milena Dravić, Milan Štrljić, Josip Genda, Sven Lasta...), And while the heart is going to be Croatia - AG Matoš (1993, a retrospective of exciting life adventures, morals, politics, culture, love and thoughts are glamorous, intriguing and demanding about us today more than ever), The Tin Heart (1994),(Original Music Score Arsen Dedić ) - a successful "rock generation - defender Slavko Juraga and businessman Filip Šovagović in the fullness of the iconography of Croatian War of Independence Profiters.
Transatlantic - a feature film of the same name - A movie epic about emigration, roots, America, Croatia, organized crime, love, loneliness, fate, the existential measure of everyone's life, whether that life in monumental, ordinary, null or simply human, with famous actor names such as - the Australian dive of Croatian origin Melita Jurišić (co-stars of the Best World Film in 2015 by Fripesci Critics - Mad Max: Fury Road), Filip Šovagović, Boris Dvornik, Alen Liverić, Relje Bašić, Ivo Gregurević, Matije Prskalo - to the special guest star in the Prologue of Martin Sheen - with the lyrical music of the song and the theme of Nenad Bach (Can We Go Higher - with Vince Welnick from The Greateful Dead), also with Original Music Score of Alan Bjelinski and Bruno Bjelinski - was world-wide accepted who won the 4 Golden Arenas at the Pula Film Festival in 1998 and the Kodak Award, is a record for the Croatian television (by 2016, over Five and a Half million viewers!
The Sunken Cemetery (2002) - According to Goran Tribuson's novel - surrealistic depiction of this time of war disaster in Croatia in the nineties - a terrible atmosphere, in the milestone of returnees' emigrants (Barbara Nola and Sven Medvešek) in the catastrophic homeland, with the music of Igor Kuljerić and with the screenplay and acting collaboration of Oscar-winner Jiri Menzel, upgraded to thriller elements and occasional comedy or grotesque situations - was nominated for the Melies d'Or Award - the Best European Fantastic Film - Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 2003.
"The Horror of Mladen Juran The sunken cemetery that won the Sci-Fi festival in Brussels portrays a middle-aged man who returns to (...) ... the development of the drama, upgraded to thriller elements and occasional comedy or grotesque situations.