Elegija / Elegy
Nedeljko Dragić
Yugoslavia / 1965 / 3' 54''Screenings
Cinema SC, 15:30 h
Synopsis
A man stares resignedly from behind the bars of a small window on a large wall. At the foot of the wall is a red flower. The prisoner keeps looking at it and would like to touch the-for him-unreachable flower. And so the years pass by, until one day when the prisoner is set free...
Nedeljko Dragić made his first caricature in 1953. He has been working as a caricaturist and illustrator in all of Zagreb newspapers until the 1980s. He has been working in Zagreb Film since 1960. Since 1991 he has been living and working in Munich. He is the author of 8 animated films and numerous one-minute films and commercials. He won many awards and was nominated for the Academy Award in 1973 for the animated film Tup-Tup.
Director
Nedeljko Dragić
Production
Ustanova Zagreb film
Screenplay
Nedeljko Dragić
Music
Tomica Simović
Animation
Nedeljko Dragić
categories
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: NEDELJKO DRAGIĆ