Dušan Vukotić

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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").

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Visitors from the GalaxyVisitors from the Galaxy · 1981
Visitors 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 PlanetThe Crystal Planet · 2026
The 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 FearThe Great Fear · 1958
The 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 DollA Doll · 1961
A Doll
1961
MovieAnimation
Two friends fall in love with the same girl who is actually a doll.
PiccoloPiccolo · 1959
Piccolo
★ 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 SubstituteThe Substitute · 1961
The 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 UndertakerThe Undertaker · 1979
The 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 GameThe Game · 1962
The 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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My Tail Is My TicketMy Tail Is My Ticket · 1959
My Tail Is My Ticket
★ 7.01959
MovieAnimation
Two cheerful friends, comedians, are looking in vain for something for breakfast in the morning. They come up with an original idea. They transform into an exhausted horse and thus manage to sneak into a mansion, which a rich woman has turned into a luxurious home for all kinds of animals as her hobby. A series of comical situations arise there due to the great attention shown to the comedians — the horse, as an animal. For example, they are served an abundance of the finest hay, which they, of course, eat, marking, etc. The climax occurs in a race between the "horse" and the farrier, who wants to shoe it and ends up being shoed himself. But their cunning is discovered and they are rudely thrown out into the street, with the knowledge that they fared better as animals than as people.

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