The 64th Pula Film Festival will present two cinematheque programmes this year: a retrospective of films by Antun Vrdoljak and the Time Machine programme, with screenings of foreign films made in Croatia in 1937. The retrospective will celebrate 60 years of work in film of the great director who made his debut in film as an actor in Nikola Tanhofer’s film It Was Not in Vain from 1957. Four film adaptation directed by Vrdoljak, based on Croatian literary works, will be screened: Snowstorm (1977), based on the play by Pero Budak, Cyclops (1982), based on the novel by Ranko Marinković, The Glembays (1988), based on the play by Miroslav Krleža, and Carnival, Angel and Dust (1990), based on the novellas from the collection Hands by Ranko Marinković. This retrospective is organised in cooperation with Jadran film and Croatian State Archives.

As part of The Time Machine programme, which will be dedicated to foreign films and co-productions made in Croatia, the German film The Coral Princess (1937) will be screened 80 years after its making. The film, filmed in Split, Hvar and mostly on the Island of Zlarin, was directed by Victor Janson and stars Ita Rina and Ivan Petrović, with music by Ivo Tijardović. It will follow the screening of the German short film Song of Adriatic, directed by Hans Beck-Gaden and starring Desa Marović and Miro Mihovilović.

You can read more about these two programmes in the texts written by our collaborators Bruno Kragić and Leon Rizmaul.