ZAGREB, Oct 26 (Hina) - The Croatian Film Employees' Society on Thursday decided Vinko Bresan's comedy "Marsal" would run as Croatia's candidate for next year's Academy Award for best foreign language picture.
ZAGREB, Oct 26 (Hina) - The Croatian Film Employees' Society on
Thursday decided Vinko Bresan's comedy "Marsal" would run as
Croatia's candidate for next year's Academy Award for best foreign
language picture.#L#
Two days ago "Marsal" won two awards at a festival in Valencia,
first prize for best screenplay and third prize for best film. These
awards are the fourth recognition Bresan's film has won abroad
after the Wolfgang Staudte award at the Berlin Film Festival, the
Crystal Globe for best director at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival,
and a viewers' award at a festival in Macedonia's Bitola.
At this year's national film festival in Pula, "Marsal" won Gold
Arenas for best film, best actor, best screenplay, best music, best
make-up, as well as the 1999 Vladimir Nazor award.
Bresan and his father Ivo based the screenplay on a story by Morko
Maroj, who claims to have seen the ghost of Josip Broz Tito, the
former Yugoslav leader. The film centres around a young policeman
investigating the bizarre behaviour of a group of pensioners on a
small Adriatic island. He finds out that Tito's ghost has been
haunting the local cemetery wearing his marshall's uniform.
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