Directing
Dušan Vukotić
Born February 7, 1927 · Bileća, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Died July 8, 1998 · aged 71
Director, script writer, animator and drawer, author of many animated and documentary films, as well as three feature films. Won an Academy Award in 1961 for his "Surogat"("The Substitute").
Known For
Visitors from the Galaxy · 1981Visitors from the Galaxy
★ 4.71981
MovieScience FictionComedy
Robert is a SF writer, who realizes that he can make his thoughts material. Because of that, a group of aliens arrives to Earth. Their leader is Andra, who shows affection for Robert, which does not please his girlfriend, Biba. A monster, Mumu, has arrived together with the visitors from space.
The Crystal Planet · 2026The Crystal Planet
2026
MovieAnimationScience Fiction
11-year-old Rea has recently moved to a distant planet in an outer-space colony where she discovers a mysterious animal cub while her father works in a factory that builds robotic creatures. With the help of her new friend Andy, she must protect the real cub from the factory’s ruthless owner, who intends to turn it into a robotic prototype.
The Great Fear · 1958The Great Fear
★ 6.71958
MovieAnimationHorror
A man reads a horror novel late at night. His imagination runs away with him; he thinks some dripping beverage is blood, is frightened by his own bear-skin rug, and faints when he sees a shadow of himself in a noose-like tangle of his phone cord. The ambulance arrives and finds the most threatening thing is a kitten in a sock and a shelf of horror novels. They cart off the novels and leave the man.
A Doll · 1961A Doll
1961
MovieAnimation
Two friends fall in love with the same girl who is actually a doll.
Piccolo · 1959Piccolo
★ 6.61959
MovieAnimation
Two men in adjoining duplexes, good friends, are enchanted by the song of a bird. One buys a small harmonica and learns to play it; he keeps his neighbor awake. The neighbor buys a larger harmonica, and an arms race ensues; the instruments get larger, until it's a piano vs. a pipe organ, and then they start bringing in larger groups of friends until an entire orchestra is playing the 1812 Overture. The houses collapse from all this, atop the dueling orchestras, and on their way up to heaven, the man puts his small harmonica up for sale.
The Substitute · 1961The Substitute
★ 6.81961
MovieComedyAnimation
With magic inflatable objects that spring to life to fill his every need, a flippant beachgoer wants for nothing. Well... almost nothing.
The Undertaker · 1979The Undertaker
1979
MovieAnimation
A phantasmagoric story about an undertaker and his wife who live alone because everyone avoids them. The undertaker cannot break human prejudices and superstitions, and in desperation he invites his former customers, the dead, to be his guests and to banish loneliness from him and his wife.
The Game · 1962The Game
★ 6.61962
MovieDramaAnimation
In this child's game, a live-action boy and girl draw characters and compete who is better. The girl draws a flower and the boy draws a car that runs it over. Then a drawn lion chases a drawn girl, until it all becomes frightfully serious.
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