The Yugoslavian short films
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Between 1970 and 1972, Sajtinac made 7 short animations for Neoplanta-Film in Yugoslavia.
The fountain of youth (with Nikola Majdak), 1969
Not everything that flies is a bird, 1970
Temptation, 1971
Der Weg zum Nachbar, 1971
The bride, 1971
Don Quichotte, 1972
Triumph, 1972
In October 1972 he left the country and moved to Germany, where he continued to work as a filmmaker.
In 1999, during bombardments in Yugoslavia, most negatives of his films were destroyed or lost. Few rare copies spread here and there are the only testimony to this work.
The Bride, 1971
In 1971, Sajtinac produced 3 short films. The Bride tells the story of a young woman courted by numerous suitors which she turned down, to eventually choose an unexpected fiancé.
This very same year the film won the Grand Prix at the Annecy Animation Festival.
Temptation, 1971
Temptation tells the history of a character lost meandering through a fictitious town.
It should be seen as a parable of an individual who is the prisoner of a surrealist system.
Not everything that flies is a bird, 1970
With Not everything that flies is a bird, in 1970 Sajtinac signed off on his first own production.
The film describes the suffering of a character who is renovating his house while being confronted with a monstrous bird which is terrorising and oppressing him. It should be read as a parable of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The film was subject to severe criticism at the 1970 Oberhausen film festival in Germany in 1970, in particular from directors from South American communist countries.
The fountain of youth (with Nikola Majdak), 1969
00:09:30 (35 mm, colour)
Not everything that flies is a bird, 1970
00:08:44 (35 mm, colour)
Temptation, 1971
00:09:00 (35 mm, colour)
Der Weg zum Nachbar, 1971
00:03:00 (35 mm, colour)
The bride, 1971
00:08:11 (35 mm, colour)
Don Quichotte, 1972
00:08:30 (35 mm, colour)
Triumph, 1972
00:08:00 (35 mm, colour)
In October 1972 he left the country and moved to Germany, where he continued to work as a filmmaker.
In 1999, during bombardments in Yugoslavia, most negatives of his films were destroyed or lost. Few rare copies spread here and there are the only testimony to this work.
The Bride, 1971
Neoplanta-Film
00:08:11 (35 mm, colour)In 1971, Sajtinac produced 3 short films. The Bride tells the story of a young woman courted by numerous suitors which she turned down, to eventually choose an unexpected fiancé.
This very same year the film won the Grand Prix at the Annecy Animation Festival.
Temptation, 1971
Neoplanta-Film
00:09:00 (35 mm, colour)Temptation tells the history of a character lost meandering through a fictitious town.
It should be seen as a parable of an individual who is the prisoner of a surrealist system.
Not everything that flies is a bird, 1970
Neoplanta-Film
00:08:44 (35 mm, colour)With Not everything that flies is a bird, in 1970 Sajtinac signed off on his first own production.
The film describes the suffering of a character who is renovating his house while being confronted with a monstrous bird which is terrorising and oppressing him. It should be read as a parable of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The film was subject to severe criticism at the 1970 Oberhausen film festival in Germany in 1970, in particular from directors from South American communist countries.
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