The Zagreb Film StudioBy: Christian Hiebner, Brittany Mulligan, and

John Yankowski

Location of Zagreb

Overview

Founded in 1953.

Profile of an animated film company.

produced 600animated films.

600documentaries.

800 television commercials.

600 educational films.

14 feature films.

Zagreb Members

Dusan Vukotic

Nikola Kostelac

Vjekoslav Kostanjsek

Braca Neugebauer

Ico Voljevica Vlado Kristl

Aleksandar MarksZlatko Bourek

Vladimir JutrisaNedeljko Dragic

Zagreb Trademark

Each author from Zagreb worked on their own unique style and had their own view on the art of animation.

A long tradition of visual arts that are related to animated film.

illustrations.

comics.

graphic design.

caricature.

Zegreb Films

the OSCAR-nominated Satiemania (1978) by Zdenko Gasparovic. The comically violent film is based on the piano music of Eric Satie, it is a satirical portrait of the city-jungle with its excesses, the brothels and bars.

Typhus (1963): is a tribute to the dead of WW2. Used powerful black/white images similar to woodcuts, show the eerie world of hallucinations caused by typhoid.

The Zagreb films were influenced by the UPA style and Disney’s or Ward Kimball’s more stylized shorts but still an influence of modern European art in their designs.

Famous Feature

Created in 1967 by Zlatko Grgic.

An amusing professor who solved various imaginative problems.

A global success.

Other major series

Hound for Hire

Inspector Mask

The Little Flying Bears

Professor Balthazar

Famous Feature

By Dusan Vukotic; a story of a tourist on a beach who "inflates" an entire village. A passionate love develops, provoking jealousy, vengeance, and finally tragedy. In the end, a small nail reminds every one of the artificiality of the world that has been created.

Oscar Winner for the best animated short film in 1962

1962 Academy Award

1961 First Prize, San Francisco

1962 First Prize, Belgrade

1962 City of Zagreb Award

1962 Special Jury Award, Oberhausen

1963 First Prize and Audience Award, Prague

1971 Special Merit Award, Philadelphia

Ersatz (Surogat)

Accomplishments Zagreb Film received more than 400 awards on festivals all over the world.

an Academy Award - Oscar for Ersatz (Surogat)

Giannalberto Bendazzi, a highly regarded Italian reviewer for animated films had 8 Zagreb films in his 1999 list of 88 biggest animated films in the history of world animation

The Zagreb School of Animation.

trademark for top grade and innovative animated films.

Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films

Stared by Zagreb Film in 1972, and was organizing it until 1990. Other companies took over the festival organization, Zagreb Film has stayed involved

Zagreb Festival is considered one of the four most significant animated film festivals in the world

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