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FILM CLASSIC
One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away
DIRECTOR: Krešo Golik
COUNTRY: Croatia
YEAR / DURATION: 1970 • 93’
GENRE: comedy
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Krešo Golik (based on the novella by Vjekoslav Majer The Diary of Little Perica)
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ivica Rajković
- EDITOR: Katja Majer
- SCORE: Živan Cvitković
- ACTORS: Relja Bašić, Mia Oremović, Mirjana Bohanec, Franjo Majetić, Tomislav Žganec, Vida Jerman
- COMPANY: Croatia film
- DISTRIBUTION / SALES AGENT: Croatian Film Archives
- FESTIVALS AND AWARDS: Pula Film Festival, 1971 – Bronze Arena for Directing, Diploma for Sound (Marijan Meglič); Niš, 1971 – Best Role in Comedy (Franjo Majetić)
Trailer
–Synopsis
The Šafranek family live in Zagreb in 1935. The father of the family, Franjo, enjoys having spritzers, while Ana, the mother, works in the kitchen and fantasises about the lovers she reads about in romance novels. Aunt Mina, Ana’s spinster spinster, often comes by uninvited, mostly for the free lunch, which rather annoys Franjo. Their son Perica satisfies his curiosity by observing the grownups in the household, writing down everything they do and say in his diary. A certain Mr. Fulir, a dandy and a charmer, notices Ana and starts courting her despite the fact that she is married. Franjo sees Fulir as a good opportunity to get rid of Mina and fails to notice the romance happening right under his nose, but after a while, a big scandal breaks out.
The film One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away has been digitalized within A Season of Classic Films initiative of the Association of European Cinematheques (ACE), with support from the MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe (2K digitalisation: Ater, Zagreb, 2021).
About the director
Krešo Golik (Fužine, 1922 – Zagreb, 1996), film and TV director, one of the most important directors in Croatian cinema. In a career spanning from the late 1940s to the late 1980, he directed numerous critically acclaimed feature film and TV series (Plavi 9, 1950; The Girl and the Oak, 1955; I Have Two Mothers and Two Fathers, 1968; TV series Gruntovčani, 1975). One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away, with the subtitle “a love comedy with singing”, is his most famous film and one of the most-watched Croatian films in history, named the best Croatian film of all time.
Screening
- Brijuni – 23.07.2022
21:30
