The Time Machine: The Coral Princess
Country in Focus: Czech Cinema
On Friday, 21 July, the Pula PROfessional Programme has come to an end. A presentation of Czech cinema (Friend Country) was organised at 10 a.m., and at noon, the presentation of The Coral Princess, a collection of filmography papers about the filming on the Adriatic in 1937.
Czech cinema was presented by Barbora Ligasová (Czech Film Centre), Pavlína Žipková (Czech Film Commission), Kateřina Fojtová (National Film Archive), and Julietta Sichel (8Heads Productions). Mario Kozina of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) was the moderator. In the discussion about the system of financing and promoting Czech film, emphasis was placed on the production of feature and documentary films, but also export of film services. The speakers also emphasised the long partnership between Croatian and Czech cinema, with recent film successes Ministry of Love an The Constitution.
At noon on Friday, the collection of papers The Coral Princess was presented by editor Leon Rizmaul, director of HAVC Daniel Rafaelić, and head of Yugoslav Film Archive Aleksandar Erdeljanović. The collection of papers is related to this year’s edition of the Cinematheque, which is a part of the Time Machine Programme. As part of the programme, the German-Yugoslavian co-production The Coral Princess from 1937 is being brought to Pula and screened from 35-mm film. This is a fun film that was filmed in Split, Hvar, and mostly on the Island of Zlarin, with the then famous Gastarbeiters Ivan Petrović and Ita Rina in leading roles, and music by Split composer Ivo Tijardović. That very summer, Tijardović composed the music for the short cultural film Song of the Adriatic, which will also be screened this year, 80 years after filming on the Adriatic.
Film archeologists Dejan Kosanović, Daniel Rafaelić and Stanko Ferić analyse The Coral Princess, and Leon Rizmaul analyses Song of the Adriatic. The biography of famous actor Ivan Petrović, the main driver of filming in Dalmatia, is written by Aleksandar Erdeljanović, and musicologist Irena Paulus presents the music by Ivo Tijardović.
The Coral Princess and Song of the Adriatic will be screened on Saturday 22 July 2017, at 7. pm. at Valli Cinema.
