The Blue 9
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The Blue 9 (Plavi 9) is a 1950 Croatian football comedy film. The film was directed by Krešo Golik.
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Directed by | Krešo Golik assistant directors: Ante Babaja Vladimir Krstulović |
Written by | Krešo Golik Hrvoje Macanović Geno Senečić |
Starring | Antun Nalis Irena Kolesar |
Cinematography | Nikola Tanhofer Slavko Zalar |
Music by | Bruno Bjelinski |
Distributed by | Jadran Film |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Yugoslavia |
Language | Croatian |
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That film is a bizarre mixture of the Soviet-style industrial epic, romantic comedy and football film. It is famous for superbly directed football sequences. After release it quickly became the biggest hit of then-young Yugoslav cinema.
This film is first Croatian movie with sport as the main topic. The Blue 9 is also first Croatian comedy film from sound era.
Movie was filmed on the locations in Croatia (Split, Rijeka and Zagreb) and in Serbia (Belgrade).