"Ero s onoga svijeta" (usually translated as Ero the Joker, literally Ero from Heaven), is a comic opera in three acts and is the most popular Croatian opera.
The documentary's director, Jakov Sedlar, said he had made the film in order to reverse the trend in Croatia of great artists sinking into oblivion.
Gotovac was born in Split on 11 October 1895 and died in Zagreb on 16 October 1982.