''Legends of Anika'' (), is a

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Yugoslav drama film

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Vladimir Pogačić Vladimir Pogačić (23 September 1919 – 13 September 1999) was a SFR Yugoslavia, Yugoslav film director. Education Before World War II, Pogačić studied art history at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. In the ...

. The film is based on the same-titled short novel penned by the

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-winning Yugoslav author

Ivo Andrić Ivo Andrić ( sr-Cyrl, Иво Андрић, ; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1961. His writ ...

, continuing Pogačić's series of screen adaptations of literary works by local authors (it was preceded by his critically acclaimed 1953 film ''

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'', which was itself based on a play by

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). It was the first Yugoslav film which had a cinema release in the

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, where it premiered on 18 April 1956.

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