FNRY
101′,1950.
DIRECTED BY
Vojislav Nanović
PRODUCED BY
ZvezdaFilm
SCRIPTWRITER
Mladen Josić
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Milenko Stojanović
EDITED BY
Milanka Nanović
The film is based on the folk tale Baš Čelik. The young shepherd Nebojša unwittingly saves the tyrant Baš Čelik, who abducts his fiance Vida on their wedding day and enslaves the entire country. Baš Čelik and his men cannot be killed by conventional weapons, but only with a magical sword which can be found in a distant empire. Nebojša conqueres the sword, returns, and defeats Baš Čelik and his army, thus rescuing her Vida as well.
Vojislav Nanović(1922-1983) has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. During his studies, he started working in journalism, and immediately after the liberation he took part in the creation of a new film center in Belgrade. Already in 1945 he was head of the first editorial board of Film news and began making documentary films himself. Since 1948 he stared working intensively as screenwriter and director of feature films. In the early 1960s he left for the USA, where he worked in television for a while, and also as a screenwriter, editor, and director.
Photo: Yugoslav Film Archive