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Zagreb Film

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  • Skeleton Sets The Tramp

    1962 16+ 8 min

    by Ivo Vrbanić, Vlado Kristl

    The story takes place in an unnamed American metropolis of the 1960s, where a criminal gang led by Prehlađeni Joe (Runny Nose Joe) carries out various criminal acts, but is thwarted by police inspector Maska, using various disguises to track them and catch them in the end.

    • Comedy
    • Crimi
    • Experimental
  • Everyday Chronicle

    1962 16+ 11 min

    by Vatroslav Mimica

    How a blind barrel organist loses his dog and then finds him again.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • El Cactusito

    1962 7+ 7 min

    by Ivo Vrbanić, Vlado Kristl

    A series of Inspektor maska, episode El Cactusito.

    • Comedy
    • Western
    • Musical
  • Citizen IM-5

    1962 16+ 8 min

    by Boris Kolar

    A series of Inspektor maska, episode Građanin IM-5.

    • Comedy
    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
  • Calumet

    1962 7+ 7 min

    by Zlatko Grgić

    The story takes place in an unnamed American metropolis of the 1960s, where a criminal gang led by Prehlađeni Joe (Runny Nose Joe) carries out various criminal acts, but is thwarted by police inspector Maska, using various disguises to track them and catch them in the end.

    • Comedy
    • Western
    • Adventure
  • Boomerang

    1962 16+ 11 min

    by Boris Kolar

    Today, a butterfly can never be certain that flitting from flower to flower won’t cause major incidents…

    • Comedy
    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Substitute

    1961 10+ 10 min

    by Dušan Vukotić

    On a beach at the seaside, a tourist is blowing up and creating an entire camp out of plastic. In this colourful inflatable environment there is a plastic surrogate for everything, even feelings. The beach sees the birth of a thrilling love, jealousy and revenge, and finally tragedy. Everything deflated and came down with the appearance of one small realistic nail.

    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Zlatko Bourek

    An animated film based on a folk tale where a blacksmith’s wife turns an apprentice into a horse every night with magic and takes him to the witches’ hall. The apprentice is irznemogao and he swears by his mistress. One evening, when the landlady came to him again by stealth, he bewitches her with her own magic. The blacksmith’s wife lost the set, because it was reshaped by the horse and it was also shod.

    • Experimental
    • Fantasy
    • Comedy
  • Don Quijote

    1961 11 min

    by Vlado Kristl

    “Don Kihot” is a satirical, Klee-esque meditation about Don Quijote in the contemporary militaristic and regimentistic world.

  • Shagreen Leather

    1960 Adults 10 min

    by Vlado Kristl, Ivo Vrbanić

    Poor and unhappy, Rafael leaves Pauline and tries his luck at the roulette, but loses his last coin. Fate gifts him with the miraculous “Shagreen leather” that fulfills all wishes. In his new, luxurious life he wins the heart of wonderful Foedora. But with the power of the leather comes a rule: for every fulfilled wish it becomes shorter, and so does the life of its owner. Using the leather abundantly, Rafael soon spends his time.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
  • A Thousand and One Drawings

    1960 10+ 14 min

    by Dušan Vukotić

    The film reveals the secret of the magical revival of drawings.

    • Documentary
    • Making of
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
  • Theft of Jewels

    1959 16+ 9 min

    by Mladen Feman

    The short animated film Theft of Jewels.

    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Ring

    1959 16+ 10 min

    by Nikola Kostelac

    Story of a famous boxer and the unfaithful girl friend of a reporter.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
  • The inspector is back!

    1959 Adults 12 min

    by Vatroslav Mimica

    The inspector carefully walks through the streets of the city, avoiding “dangers”. He’s coming home. He washes his feet and reads the newspaper. Suddenly he sees a fingerprint that suddenly starts to run away. The inspector follows him… This cartoon satire on a fantasy burdened with the desire to experience something mysterious, tense and dynamic contains a series of humorous situations and comical details.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • The Egg

    1959 16+ 10 min

    by Vatroslav Mimica

    Cartoon about a sculptor who lays an egg and his friends who give it various meanings.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Piccolo

    1959 7+ 9 min

    by Dušan Vukotić

    Two men live in neighboring apartments. They are good friends and help each other out however possible. However, when one of them starts playing his piccolo to accompany the song of a nearby bird, the other gets angry. They proceed to play louder instruments than the other, even hiring extra people to assist.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Cow on the Moon

    1959 4+ 11 min

    by Dušan Vukotić

    An intelligent and hard-working girl is always foiled in her efforts by a happy-go-lucky boy who plays football. In order to turn the tables on him, she builds a small rocketship, persuades the boy to enter it, and fires it off.

    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Sci-Fi
  • At the Photographer’s

    1959 16+ 9 min

    by Vatroslav Mimica

    The photographer never succeeds in getting a smile on his client’s face and is forced to photograph a man with a sad expression. When a man sees his picture, he laughs.

    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • An All Around Help

    1959 10+ 11 min

    by Nikola Kostelac

    Robot Minus serves Doctor Sinus, its creator and constructor, who works at a desk. However, a magnetic horseshoe gets into the robot’s mechanism and disrupts its functioning. Dr. Sinus first tries to tame the Robot, then breaks it, but it’s all in vain.

    • Comedy
    • Sci-Fi
    • Experimental
  • by Ivo Vrbanić, Vlado Kristl

    The boy and the girl are suddenly separated from the picture book by a hand, which tears off a page from the book and makes a paper airplane in which the boy remains trapped. In her attempt to help the friend, she couldn’t achieve anything if all the children’s drawings in the city did not help her.

    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental