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Zagreb Film

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  • The Diary

    1974 16+ 9 min

    by Nedeljko Dragić

    Memories, memories, nostalgia, alienation, transience… these are the themes of this animated diary. The film is made outside of the usual forms (screenplay; recording book), and it was created at the moment when the author sat down at the drawing table and started animating.

    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Second Class Traveller

    1973 16+ 11 min

    by Borivoj Dovniković Bordo

    One movie – one train journey in a second-class compartment between two stations: the first and the last. In the second-class compartment, the traveler meets many people, many characters, many destinies, but he does not find a friend. Alone, just as he had entered the train, with a suitcase that no longer has a desire, he gets off at his little station and does not stop at the cloud.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Tup Tup

    1972 Adults 10 min

    by Nedeljko Dragić

    The too fast pace of life in polluted cities makes people sick. Neuroses are an everyday occurrence. Overcrowding, pollution and noise are enemies no. 1. What can happen to a man who is irritated by some sound while he wants to read his newspaper in peace, is the subject of this film. From a calm everyday person exposed to constant sound bombardment, a person becomes dangerous. He is able to tear down and destroy. But maybe it’s all just a fairy tale, because each of us carries everything that accumulates in us during our short human life.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
    • Abstract
  • The Collector

    1971 Adults 2 min

    by Milan Blažeković

    He is the Collector. He enthusiastically collects butterflies. His only goal in life is – collection. However, one more copy is missing. He goes hunting. He found that last specimen to complete his collection. The hunt begins.

    • Experimental
    • Fantasy
    • Tragicomedy
  • The Cat

    1971 Adults 10 min

    by Zlatko Bourek

    As in the ancient fable of Aesop, the young poet is alone with his art until the goddess Venus gives him company, turning his cat into a beautiful girl.

    • Drama
    • Musical
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Make Love Not War

    1971 Adults 1 min

    by Zlatko Grgić

    A couple of lovers in a passionate embrace. Camera panning back, discloses a third person, a policeman, who gets himself involved in the action.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Lovers of Flowers

    1971 16+ 10 min

    by Borivoj Dovniković Bordo

    A sensational discovery is made: exploding flowers. The whole world is impressed. Not interested in the ordinary flowers any more, people now rave about the new ones. Exploding flowers becomes a mania and a matter of social prestige.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Man Who Had to Sing

    1970 16+ 10 min

    by Milan Blažeković

    He started singing his song already in the nursery. And so he continues all his life. The song is not ugly, the voice is not unpleasant, but everything is constantly the same. He tries to fit into the middle, but it always ended with resentment, expulsion, blows, harsh reactions. However, he did not give in.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Schooling

    1970 7+ 9 min

    by Zlatko Bourek

    Until yesterday, it never occurred to the three birds to look at the world around them, but today, when they heard certain voices for the first time, they decided to do something significant…

    • Educational
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Gallery

    1970 16+ 10 min

    by Zlatko Pavlinić

    A series of cartoon gags on well-known works of art in the field of painting and sculpture. The works of Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, ancient Greek artists, Goya and others are represented.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Scabies

    1969 16+ 7 min

    by Zlatko Grgić

    The man smokes. Something itched and he scratched. Then it is repeated in another place. He starts scratching harder and harder and in more and more different places. From everywhere, from sleeves, coats, trousers, little people start to fall out, and the man no longer manages to step on them. He just scratches like crazy and that scratching turns into agony. The big man begins to sink into his own suit and descend to the ground. A mass of little men gushes from everywhere like a torrent. Finally, the last ones come out and disperse in all directions. There was only one large suit left on the ground.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Comedy
  • Per Aspera Ad Astra

    1969 10+ 1 min

    by Nedeljko Dragić

    A short animated film in which an old man struggles to get off a toilet.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Mask of the Red Death

    1969 Adults 10 min

    by Pavao Štalter, Branko Ranitović

    Based on the story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. The plague is ravaging the whole world. Prince Prospero with his decadent company locks himself in a castle where he continues his orgies. But the court dance will be interrupted by a seductive lady who lures the prince further and further through the luxurious halls of the castle. At the end, in a passionate embrace, Prospero discovers that the mysterious guest is actually the plague, which destroys both his life and the carefully guarded court

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Days go by

    1969 16+ 10 min

    by Nedeljko Dragić

    The story of a man who is not allowed by the world around him to live his little simple life…

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • Twiddle-Twiddle

    1968 7+ 8 min

    by Zlatko Grgić

    This film is based on the so-called comedy of the absurd. The unusual animalism of the figures and their distinctive animation and sound treatment promise that the film will be acceptable to children. Probably even adults will not be indifferent to this variety of fabrications.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Gorilla’s Dance

    1968 10+ 9 min

    by Milan Blažeković

    This animated musical is an easy-going and entertaining satire about a relationship between a man and a monkey. The observer is given a chance to conclude that the man still has a long way to go before finally climbing down the tree.

    • Comedy
    • Musical
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Between Lips and the Glass

    1968 Adults 10 min

    by Dragutin Vunak

    One endless line of people journeys incessantly and inevitably to their grave: the funeral of mankind. We bury one another but live nevertheless. As one person is happy, the other dies. No sooner than we draw a cup to our lips… fate has come.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Tolerance

    1967 16+ 9 min

    by Zlatko Grgić, Branko Ranitović

    A cartoon where a group of eccentrics are playing. A little man wants to join in but is always sent away and is finally murdered. In heaven he meets others of his kind and plays with them but a still tinier man wants to crash their games…

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Of Holes and Corks

    1967 10+ 9 min

    by Ante Zaninović

    A man is never satisfied with his accomplishments. Is this always opportune?

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Krek

    1967 16+ 10 min

    by Borivoj Dovniković Bordo

    An animated film dedicated to “all the corporals of the world”. Their attempts at killing the soldiers’ human intimacy do not always succeed.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy