''Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun'' (''Pogled u zjenicu sunca'') is a 1966
Yugoslav film directed by
Veljko Bulajić
Veljko Bulajić (born 22 March 1928) is a Montenegrins of Croatia, Montenegrin film director and UNESCO Kalinga Prize recipient. He has spent the majority of his life working in Croatia and is primarily known for directing World War II-themed movi ...
and starring
Bata Živojinović
Velimir "Bata" Živojinović ( sr-Cyrl, Велимир "Бата" Живојиновић; 5 June 1933 – 22 May 2016) was a Yugoslav and Serbian actor and politician. He appeared in more than 340 films and TV series, and is regarded as one of ...
,
Antun Nalis
Antun Nalis (9 February 1911 – 14 February 2000), a.k.a. Tonči Nalis, was a Croatian actor.
Antun Nalis was born in Zadar, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the time. After World War I Zadar became part of Italy, which later helped Nalis to ...
,
Faruk Begolli
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He attended high school in Pristina and graduated from the Acade ...
, Mladen Ladika, and
Milena Dravić
Milena Dravić ( sr-Cyrl, Милена Дравић, ; 5 October 1940 – 14 October 2018) was a Yugoslav and Serbian film, television and theatre actress.
Biography
Born in Belgrade, Dravić became involved with performing arts at the age of fou ...
.
Plot
In a snowstorm, four
Partisans get separated from their unit. Three of them are suffering from
typhoid fever
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, and the only healthy man among them is trying to return them to safety...
Production
''Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun'' was shot in just 31 working days. Although Bulajić's name was usually associated with high-budget productions, he gave ''Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun'' and ''
The Man to Destroy
''The Man to Destroy'' ( sh, Čovjek koga treba ubiti) is a 1979 Yugoslav fantasy film by Croatian film directed by Veljko Bulajić. The film was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 52nd Academy Awards, but was ...
'' as counterexamples, describing them as "the two cheapest films in the history of
Jadran Film
Jadran Film is a film production studio and distribution company founded in 1946 in Zagreb, Croatia. In the period between the early 1960s and late 1980s Jadran Film was one of the biggest and most notable film studios in Central Europe, with some ...
".
Reception
''Looking Into the Eyes of the Sun'' was shown in the out of competition section of the 1966
Cannes Film Festival
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. The
Croatian Film Association The Croatian Film Association ( hr, Hrvatski filmski savez, HFS), also known as the Croatian Film Clubs' Association, is an association of non-professional film and video groups in Croatia.
Croatian Film Association was established in 1963. Since 1 ...
's database describes it as one of the most peculiar Bulajić's films which, instead of epic sweep, opts for a visually expressive, naturalist drama of a handful of isolated individuals.
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1966 films
1960s Croatian-language films
Films directed by Veljko Bulajić
Jadran Film films
Croatian war films
Croatian black-and-white films
Films set in Yugoslavia
War films set in Partisan Yugoslavia
1966 war films
Croatian World War II films
Yugoslav World War II films
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