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The Cormorant Scarecrow

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The Cormorant Scarecrow[1]
Directed byBranko Ištvančić
Release date
  • 1998 (1998)
Running time
30 minutes[1]
CountryCroatia
LanguageCroatian

The Cormorant Scarecrow (Plašitelj kormorana) is a Croatian documentary film directed by Branko Ištvančić. It was released in 1998.

The film has received a number of awards and is seen by many as the best Croatian documentary of the 1990s.[2]

Synopsis

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The film depicts the daily lives of people whose job is to chase away cormorants that eat fish from a fish farm near Donji Miholjac, Croatia. Cormorants are protected by law and their nesting grounds are located across the border, in Hungary, which gives the protagonists' efforts a Sisyphean, absurdist feel.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Branko Istvancic film director".
  2. ^ "HFS | Hrvatski filmski savez | Zapis | 37/2002".
  3. ^ "Plašitelj kormorana / Čovjek je čovjeku dox / Retrospektive / Program / 2016 / ZAGREBDOX Međunarodni festival dokumentarnog filma".
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