Dušan Vukotić

Dušan Vukotić

Birth : 1927-02-07, Bileća, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Death : 1998-07-08

History

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").

Profile

Dušan Vukotić

Movies

The Last Waltz in the Old Mill
Screenplay
In live action, an old man feelds a flour mill. Two seeds are then transformed into animated lovers who dance their last waltz.
Animated Self-Portraits
Director
An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.
Visitors from the Galaxy
Writer
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.
Visitors from the Galaxy
Director
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.
How Ana Bought the Bread
Writer
A girl goes to buy bread...
Operation Stadium
Writer
This movie tells a true story about events in Zagreb in 1941. Nazis and their collaborators organized the great gathering of students on Dubrava stadium. The intention was to publicly separate Jews from them which would lead to future pogrom. The event, however, took an unexpected turn.
Operation Stadium
Director
This movie tells a true story about events in Zagreb in 1941. Nazis and their collaborators organized the great gathering of students on Dubrava stadium. The intention was to publicly separate Jews from them which would lead to future pogrom. The event, however, took an unexpected turn.
Man: The Polluter
Director
A richly illustrated cartoon film that enlarges on man's capacity to foul his own nest, and to ignore it. Made by a joint team of Canadian and Yugoslav animation artists, the film transmits its warning with unflagging humor, imagination, movement and design. In between animated sequences Dr. Fred H. Knelman, Professor of Science and Human Affairs at Concordia University in Montréal, comments on the import of what is shown and on what lies in store if more responsibility is not taken on a global scale to conserve what is left of our vital resources and usable environment.
The Noble Strain
Director
Short animated film.
Ars gratia artis
Director
Experimental animation/live-action short by Dušan Vukotić
The Seventh Continent
Screenplay
A group of children discover the new continent of the world, uninhabited by adults. Soon, many other children are joining them in that new paradise, leaving their parents and other adults baffled on all remaining continents.
The Seventh Continent
Director
A group of children discover the new continent of the world, uninhabited by adults. Soon, many other children are joining them in that new paradise, leaving their parents and other adults baffled on all remaining continents.
A Visit from Space
Director
A girl attempts to reach red apples from a tree. Aliens land on Earth and the girl offers them the fruits.
A Visit from Space
Writer
A girl attempts to reach red apples from a tree. Aliens land on Earth and the girl offers them the fruits.
The Game
Writer
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.
The Game
Director
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.
Surogat
Director
Simple story about the man who goes to the beach and uses inflatable objects for all of his needs.
Piccolo
Writer
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.
Piccolo
Director
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.
Cow on the Moon
Writer
A little girl tricks a nasty boy into thinking that the "rocketship" she built has taken him to the moon.
Cow on the Moon
Director
A little girl tricks a nasty boy into thinking that the "rocketship" she built has taken him to the moon.
The Great Fear
Writer
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.
The Great Fear
Director
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.
Revenger
Director
A film about an unhappy man who catches his wife with a lover. He leaves to buy a gun, while plotting to kill the wife and the lover. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.
Concerto for Sub-Machine Gun
Director
A short animated film by Dušan Vukotić.
Abra Cadabra
Writer
A little boy, child of the space age, encounters an old and crotchety magician and his familiars, and outdoes all the wizard's tricks with the products of modern science.
Abra Cadabra
Director
A little boy, child of the space age, encounters an old and crotchety magician and his familiars, and outdoes all the wizard's tricks with the products of modern science.
Magic Sounds
Director
Tells about a little violinist who played so wonderfully that his violin was considered magical.
Cowboy Jimmy
Director
After some typical Western hero actions, a theatrical gunfighter interacts with his fans.
The Disobedient Robot
Writer
A scientist builds a robot, and sets it to cleaning up his lab while he sleeps. The robot rebels, and creates two small robots; they create various forms of mischief while he sleeps, including trapping him and the inventor for a while.
The Disobedient Robot
Director
A scientist builds a robot, and sets it to cleaning up his lab while he sleeps. The robot rebels, and creates two small robots; they create various forms of mischief while he sleeps, including trapping him and the inventor for a while.
The Jubilee of Mr Ikel
Writer
A man wakes up in his grave and realizes that he's been buried alive. He gets up and arrives home only to find out that his wife and relatives threw a party instead of mourning, looking forward to his big inheritance.
Zagreb Film Commercials (Selection 1954/55)
Director
The Enchanted Castle at Dudinci
Animation
A project from the Kićo series: The Enchanted Castle in Čačinci, later changed to The Enchanted Castle in Dudinci – Čačinci was found on a map, and Vukotić needed an imaginary name of the place. Screenplay was written by Fadil Hadžić, main cartoonist and animator is Vukotić, scenography (perhaps the best in his career) is created by Ismet Voljevica. Music was composed by Vladimir Kraus-Rajterić. Nikola Kostelac appears as the assistant to the main cartoonist, and Vilim Firšt as the assistant for animation. Assistant director is Irena Vrkljan.
The Enchanted Castle at Dudinci
Director
A project from the Kićo series: The Enchanted Castle in Čačinci, later changed to The Enchanted Castle in Dudinci – Čačinci was found on a map, and Vukotić needed an imaginary name of the place. Screenplay was written by Fadil Hadžić, main cartoonist and animator is Vukotić, scenography (perhaps the best in his career) is created by Ismet Voljevica. Music was composed by Vladimir Kraus-Rajterić. Nikola Kostelac appears as the assistant to the main cartoonist, and Vilim Firšt as the assistant for animation. Assistant director is Irena Vrkljan.
How Kico Was Born
Writer
An early animated film by Dusan Vukotic, attempt at Disney-style animation.
How Kico Was Born
Director
An early animated film by Dusan Vukotic, attempt at Disney-style animation.