NEW YORK/ZAGREB, Jan 22 (Hina) - Croatian screenwriter and director Baldo Cupic's documentary "Marco Polo's Historical Battle" won a special diploma as one of the world's three best history documentaries of 1999. Cupic's documentary
won among 1,214 works from 43 countries at the International Film and Video Festival, which closed in New York on Friday. "Marco Polo's Historical Battle" is about the life of the first world voyager and his participation in the greatest and most violent battle Venice and Geneva fought near the shores of Korcula, an island in the southern Adriatic, on 7 September 1298. The documentary was three years in the making, and was shot on Korcula, Venice, and Geneva. It was produced by Croatian Radio-Television.(hina) ha
NEW YORK/ZAGREB, Jan 22 (Hina) - Croatian screenwriter and director
Baldo Cupic's documentary "Marco Polo's Historical Battle" won a
special diploma as one of the world's three best history
documentaries of 1999.
Cupic's documentary won among 1,214 works from 43 countries at the
International Film and Video Festival, which closed in New York on
Friday.
"Marco Polo's Historical Battle" is about the life of the first
world voyager and his participation in the greatest and most
violent battle Venice and Geneva fought near the shores of Korcula,
an island in the southern Adriatic, on 7 September 1298.
The documentary was three years in the making, and was shot on
Korcula, Venice, and Geneva. It was produced by Croatian Radio-
Television.
(hina) ha