When I start this feature, I remember times when I was a kid back about 30 or little less years ago. I went to the movies on a Sunday morning.

There was a cinema in my hometown called Dom(Croatian for Home) and it showed all those 80-ies horror movies, Hong Kong kung fu, Italian Mad Max and Conan clones and various action and soft porn erotic movies. As I write this line, I still remember the uncomfortable seats, stinking hall, the ticket lady and the posters for upcoming movies which I love to see until this day. As a kid I spent a lot of happy moments in this cinema, discovering the magic of the movies that still today take me to some better and other worlds making me forget daily grind and trouble.

The Dom cinema disappeared in the turbulent times when communist regime fell in our country and all the robbery, war and death became everyday routine in the dark beginning of the 1990s in Croatia. The building which was cinema was returned to the catholic church and it serves their purposes now.

Let us return to that Sunday matinee. The movie that I watched as a ten or eleven year old kid was The Hitcher by Eric Red. I still don´t know why they played it as a Sunday matinee for mainly kids, because the movie about mad psychotic killer that hitchikes cars in the middle of nowhere is definitely not for little kids. I was awed by that movie, especially by the actor who played the psycho, namely Rutger Hauer. I became fan. When I got home, my Dad told me that if I liked Hauer, I should see Blade Runner and I did. I cried my eyes out on that roof scene and words that Hauer´s replicant said combined with death and white dove. It moists my eyes now. With time, Hauer was always with me in my cinema experience, from Blind Fury, Ladyhawke, Turkish Delight to newer cult classics like Hobo With A Shotgun.

Whenever I watched some movie, the guy was always there, being cool, quiet and legend whether he played a villain, or our main character good guy. Whether action, fantasy or drama, his face was tattooed on my brain and will always stay there. He was one of the actors that inspired me to love movies, write about them, watch them and he is an inseparable part of my culture upbringing.

Rest in peace brother, your role on this Earth is written in the ending credits, but I hope your role in an eternal movie has just started and will never end.