''The House'' ( sh, Kuća) is a 1975 Yugoslav film directed by
Bogdan Žižić
Bogdan Žižić (8 November 1934 – 29 April 2021)''Kuća'' at hrfilm.hr
Reception and legacy
''The House'' won a
Big Golden Arena for Best Film
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at the 1975
Pula Film Festival
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. Nevertheless, at the time it was perceived as a not particularly daring
political film
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, and it faded into obscurity in the following decades.
In 2007, Croatian film critic Nenad Polimac listed ''The House'' in his selection of "lost classics" of Croatian cinema, describing it as a "socialist
film noir
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