Zabranjena ljubav
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| Genre | Soap Opera |
| Creator(s) | Fremantle Media |
| Starring | Vesna Tominac Vladimir Tintor |
| Opening theme | Tose Proeski....Srce nije kamen |
| Country of origin | Croatia |
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| Running time | 25 minutes |
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| Original channel | RTL Televizija |
| Original run | October 25, 2004 – present |
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Zabanjena Ljubav ("Forbidden Love") is a Croatian soap opera that began broadcast in October 2004.
The original story begins by introducing a handsome 22 year old Danijel Loncar (Zoran Pribicevic) coming home to Zagreb, on his 22nd birthday, after losing his job in Italy. At the railway station, he bumps into a beautiful girl. They both feel immediate attraction. Danijel doesn’t even get the chance to ask for her name as they are met by their friends and family.
The girl is Petra Novak (Anita Berisha) who also returned home, after studying photography in London, funny enough, on a present day she also celebrates her 22nd birthday.
It soon transpires that Danijel and Petra were twins separated at birth. Danijel had initially been raised by the wise Nada Horvat (Nada Rocco) before returning to his father Josip Loncar (Drazen Mikulic), and Petra raised by her mother Viktorija Novak (Sanja Vejnovic) who had married into money to a rich aristocrate widower Stjepan Novak (Velimir Cokljat).
The parents of the twins had each married other people and raised families which had other adult children. The Loncar family comprised Danijel's father Josip Loncar (Drazen Mikulic), a construction worker;, and Josip's wife Biserka Loncar (Vanja Matujec), a warm-hearted, down-to-earth housewife. Their children were Iva Loncar (Marija Kobic) and Matija (Filip Ridjicki), Iva had just started a romantic involvement with Igor Carevic (Dejan Marcikic) and Matija started seeing his class member Lana Kos (Petra Kurtela). Petra had grown up with her mother Viktorija (Sanja Vejnovic), Viktorija's husband Stjepan who was a successful wineyard owner and businessman, and Stjepan's son from an earlier marriage, the spiteful Borna Novak (Mario Valentic).
After Danijel's investigation into Petra's whereabouts, he slowly enters the world of the powerful Novak family by landing a job as a gardner, not knowing he is working for his biological mother, nor that he has fallen in love with his own sister.
Other major characters include Lidija Bauer (Katja Zupcic) who has always had strong feelings for Stjepan, but who stepped away out of respect towards the family and her children. Lidija has two children of her own: the spoiled and stubborn Tina Bauer (Antonija Sola)and the good-natured medical student Leon Bauer (Mario Mohenski) later (Marin Knezevic), who was betrothed to Petra at Viktorija's instigation only for the wedding to be cancelled after a revelation about his homosexuality. Viktorija's best friend, the dizzy socialite Stela Vidak (Matija Prskalo), was introduced as a minor figure during the show's early days as someone to whom Viktorija could recite expository dialogue about her latest scheme to, but soon emerged as a key character. Later she had a love affair with Danijel Loncar.
After the truth about Danijel and Petra was revealed, Viktorija cleared all the bank accounts from her fashion label firm V-Style as well as her husbands and fled overnight, leaving the family on the verge of bancruptcy.
The family was in shock and Viktorija's disappearance opened the doors for the new arrival, Stjepan's wife, Karolina Novak (Vesna Tominac - Matacic), formerly presumed dead. It didn't take long for Karolina to explain her whereabouts for the last 20 years and to win back the hearts of everyone in the family, except Petra's who could see deeper trough Karolina's gentle and warm exterior. Will lPetra be able to expose Karolina to her family, for the devious, evil bitch she really is.
Petra discovers that it was Karolina who visited Viktorija on the night of her dissapereance and accuses her of driving her mother away. Karolina admits the visit, but doesn't count on a small detail - Viktorija's body was found, buried in the family wineyard.
Future storylines explored the romantic entanglements of the various characters, various instances of family instability linked to the breakdowns of both Josip's and Viktorija's marriages after they tried to renew their love affair, and the big-business intrigue surrounding Stjepan's company. The series also widened its focus by introducing one more family, The Fijan's. Biserka's devious brother who emigrated to Argentina years ago, Zlatko Fijan (Mirsad Tuka) who will become Stjepan's biggest rival and his daughter Ana Fijan(Jelena Percin) later introducing the mother Gabrijela Fijan (Barbara Vickovic)who was institutionalised back in Argentina as pressumed crazy. After a slow start Zabranjena ljubav became highly successful show and is looking forward to more years on the air and many of the cast became big television stars through their roles in the show.
