In this paper works of Slobodan Novak, which served as literary sources for Ante Babaja's films ''Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh'' and ''Lost Homeland'', are being analysed. Novak and Babaja's cooperation was one of the most significant one in terms of correlation between Croatian literature and Croatian film. This paper has several main chapters. The first chapter discusses Novak and Babaja's bio/bibliographic elements and explains the reasons for their cooperation. The core of the paper are the second and third chapter. The second chapter represents an analysis of Novak's novel and Babaja's film ''Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh'', alongside the similarities and differences between the literary original and its film adaptation. The third chapter includes an analysis of Novak's novel and Babaja's film ''Lost Homeland'', which, as in the previous chapter, brings a sumo of similarities and differences between the literary original and the film adaptation. In analysing the similarities and differences between the literary originals and the film adaptations the attention was primarily directed to displaying the characters in Slobodan Novak's literary works ''Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh'' and ''Lost Homeland'' and in their film adaptations directed by Ante Babaja. These chapters also analyse some important ideological, social and psychological determinats, which are present in the mentioned literary works and/or on films.