''The Seventh Continent'' ( hr, Sedmi kontinent) is a 1966 Yugoslav and Czechoslovakian co-production film directed by
Dušan Vukotić
Dušan Vukotić (7 February 1927 – 8 July 1998) was a Yugoslav and Croatian cartoonist, author and director of animated films of Montenegrin descent. He is the best known member of the Zagreb school of animated films.
Biography
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Plot
A group of children discovers a new continent, not inhabited by adults. Soon, thousands of children of all races begin to abandon their parents and arrive at the new continent, forming a friendly and joyous society, where everyone is equal. Their parents realize children are going missing all over the world and begin to look for them, but are unaware of the existence of the seventh continent.
Cast
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Demeter Bitenc
Demeter Bitenc (21 July 1922 – 22 April 2018) was a Slovenian film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films and television shows from 1953 to 2018. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Selected filmography
* ''Sinji galeb'' (1953)
* ''Pu ...
as White Boy's Father
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Karla Chadimová as General's Wife
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Vanja Drach
Vanja Drach (1 February 1932 – 6 September 2009) was a Croatian theatre and film actor.
His film and television credits include '' H-8'', '' Lud, zbunjen, normalan'', '' Gospa'', '' Charuga'', '' Kapelski kresovi'', ''Nikola Tesla'', '' Svjedo ...
as Diplomat
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Oudy Rachmat Endang as Yellow Girl's Father
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Mikloš Huba as General
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Jindřich Láznička
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Antun Nalis as Otac djece
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Tomislav Pasarić as White Boy
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Hermina Pipinić as White Boy's Mother
* Abdoulaye Seck as Black Boy
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Viktor Starčić as Expert at Conference
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Iris Vrus as Yellow Girl
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Dano Živojinović
Production
The film was shot in
Ulcinj
Ulcinj ( cyrl, Улцињ, ; ) is a town on the southern coast of Montenegro and the capital of Ulcinj Municipality. It has an urban population of 10,707 (2011), the majority being Albanians.
As one of the oldest settlements in the Adriatic co ...
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Montenegro
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. A number of children of foreign diplomats serving in Yugoslavia were cast in the film. Abdoulaye Seck, playing the role of the Black Boy, was the son of a Senegalese diplomat stationed in Belgrade.
Themes and reception
Croatian film critic
Nenad Polimac described the film as a "benign fairytale-like fantasy with a
moral".
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 ...
database of Croatian cinema notes the film's criticism of the modern civilization and its mechanisms of repression, as well as its poetic visuals, but also its ultimately excessive idealization of the children's world, stereotypically contrasted with the world of grown-ups.
References
External links
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1966 films
1960s fantasy films
1960s Croatian-language films
Films directed by Dušan Vukotić
Jadran Film films
Croatian fantasy films
Yugoslav fantasy films
Films set on islands
Films shot in Montenegro