The Great Trial
view in croatian- 1961
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The children from the big city courtyard decided to put the cat Brnja on trial because he ate the canary. After the trial, the jury sentenced Brnja to two days of strict imprisonment in the canary’s cage.
- Director
- Fedor Škubonja
- Production
- Zora film
- Cinematography
- Krešimir Grčević
- Screenplay
- Stanislava Borisavljević
- Music
- Miro Belamarić
- Editing
- Ruža Cvingl
- Production Design
- Veselin Badrov
He attended the Film School in Belgrade and graduated in directing from the Belgrade Academy of Theatre Arts. His key piece is the medium-length children’s feature film Izgubljena olovka (The Lost Pencil, 1960), made in Croatian production and awarded at festivals in Venice, Mar del Plata, and Cannes (at the latter, it was included among the ten best children’s films ever made). Veliko suđenje (The Great Trial, 1961), a feature-length children’s comedy also produced by Zagreb’s Zora Film, was considered a failure, but the drama Nizvodno od sunca (Downstream from the Sun, 1969), produced by Belgrade’s Dunav Film and Podgorica’s (then Titograd’s) Film Studio, was awarded the Grand Golden Arena in Pula. For all these films, the screenplays were written by his wife, Stanislava Borisavljević.