Kozara (film)

Kozara
Directed by	Veljko Bulajić
Written by	Stevan Bulajić Veljko Bulajić Ratko Đurović Skender Kulenović Berislav Orlović Vladimir Špindler
Starring	Bert Sotlar Bata Živojinović Milena Dravić Olivera Marković Dragomir Felba Ljubiša Samardžić Mihajlo Kostić Milan Milosevic Abdurrahman Shala Davor Antolić
Cinematography	Aleksandar Sekulović
Edited by	Katarina Stojanović
Music by	Vladimir Kraus-Rajterić
Release date	August 2, 1962 (1962-08-02)
Running time	124 minutes
Country	FPR Yugoslavia
Language	Serbo-Croatian

Kozara is a 1962 Yugoslav film directed by Veljko Bulajić. It is a well known film of the partisan film subgenre popular in Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s and depicts events surrounding the Battle of Kozara.

It won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film at the 1962 Pula Film Festival, the Yugoslav national film awards,[1] was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Golden Prize,[2] and was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 32nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[3]

Cast

• Bert Sotlar as Vukša
• Velimir 'Bata' Živojinović as Sorga (as Bata Živojinović)
• Milena Dravić as Milja
• Olivera Marković as Anđa
• Dragomir Felba as Obrad
• Ljubiša Samardžić as Mitar
• Mihajlo Kostić Pljaka [sr] as Ahmet (as Mihajlo Kostić)
• Milan Milošević [sr] as Ivica
• Abdurrahman Shala [sr] as Jakov (as Abdurahman Šalja)
• Davor Antolić [sr] as Joja
• Tana Mascarelli [sr] as Marinko's mother (as Tana Maskareli)
• Tamara Miletić [sr] as Zlata
• Adam Vedernjak [sr] as Marinko

See also

• List of submissions to the 36th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

1. "9. Festival igranog filma u Puli" (in Croatian). Pula Film Festival. Retrieved 21 May 2010.
2. "3rd Moscow International Film Festival (1963)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2012-11-25.
3. Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

External links

• Kozara at IMDb
• Kozara at Filmski-Programi.hr (in Croatian)