AMBRELA
SKY BLUE SEAGULL
DIRECTOR: Branko Bauer
WORLD PREMIERE OF THE DIGITALLY RESTORED VERSION
COUNTRY: YU
YEAR/DURATION: 1953. • 90′
adventure, children
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Josip Barković, Branko Bauer, based on the novel by Tone Seliškar
- PHOTOGRAPHY: Nikola Tanhofer
- EDITOR: Lida Braniš
- PRODUCTION DESIGN: Želimir Zagotta
- SCORE: Ivo Tijardović
- CAST: Tihomir Polanec, Suad Rizvanbegović, Darko Slivnjak, Antun Nalis, Nela Eržišnik, Radovan Vučković, Mladen Šerment
- PRODUCTION COMPANY: Jadran film
- RESTORED BY: Croatian Film Archive of the Croatian State Archives with the support of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre. The 4K restoration was carried out at Teleking Studio in Ljubljana.
Festivals and awards
Venice International Film Festival 1954 – International Youth Film Programme
Mar del Plata Children’s Film Festival, Argentina, 1954
Synopsis
Young Ive sets sail with his friends in order to repay the debts incurred by his father. They name their small boat The Seagull, but before long they attract the attention of a gang of maritime criminals led by Lorenzo…
Trailer
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About the director
Branko Bauer (1921–2002), Croatian film and TV director and screenwriter. He made his debut in feature film in 1953 with The Seagull. After his canonical film Don’t Turn Around, My Son, he directed a successful melodrama Only People (1957), the neorealist drama Three Girls Named Ana (1959), the comedy Martin in the Clouds (1961), and the political drama Face to Face (1963). In the late 1970s he directed two acclaimed television series: the 13-part The Farm in the Small Marsh (1976) was re-edited for distribution in the cinemas as two awarded feature films, Wintering in Jakobsfeld (1975) and The Farm in the Small Marsh (1976), and the five-part Boško Buha (1980) was distributed in the cinemas as a shortened film version in 1978. Other feature films: Superfluous (1962), Nikoletina Bursać (1964), To Come and Stay (1965), Fourth Companion (1967).
Screenings
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- AMBRELA – MONDAY 13.7.2026.
21:30
- AMBRELA – MONDAY 13.7.2026.
