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Boris Kolar

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Biography

Boris Kolar was born on April 14, 1933 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He is a director and writer, known for Bumerang (1962), Professor Balthazar (1967) and Greetings from Croatia (1991). As a director, Kolar is credited for six animated short films, among which are the NFB co-productions The Specialist (1971), and was the artistic director of the NFB and Zagreb Film's omnibus work Man the Polluter anthology, to which he contributed the short Reduction of People (00:22:42–00:25:42).

Known For

Revenger
4.4

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.

Revenger

1958
The Specialist
9.0

An amusingly drawn cartoon about a highly proficient lady bricklayer, graduate of Specialists' School, whose work takes her high up in the world, and her erstwhile friend, whose equally dedicated professionalism brings him lower. She builds towers of bricks while he tunnels down below ground. What develops in the story involves other unlikely characters, plausible enough in this cartoon context.

The Specialist

1971
Man: The Polluter
7.0

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.

Man: The Polluter

1973
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5.7

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

1956
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7.0

A short animated film by Dušan Vukotić.

Concerto for Sub-Machine Gun

1958
My Tail Is My Ticket
7.0

Two cheerful friends, comedians, are looking in vain for something for breakfast in the morning. They come up with an original idea. They transform into an exhausted horse and thus manage to sneak into a mansion, which a rich woman has turned into a luxurious home for all kinds of animals as her hobby. A series of comical situations arise there due to the great attention shown to the comedians — the horse, as an animal. For example, they are served an abundance of the finest hay, which they, of course, eat, marking, etc. The climax occurs in a race between the "horse" and the farrier, who wants to shoe it and ends up being shoed himself. But their cunning is discovered and they are rudely thrown out into the street, with the knowledge that they fared better as animals than as people.

My Tail Is My Ticket

1959
Professor Balthazar: Lighthouse Keeping
N/A

Professor Balthazar goes on vacation to the South Sea where his friend Hannibal is a lighthouse keeper. Hannibal loves ice cream, difficult enough to find there. His request for transfer is denied until he can arrange a replacement: Johan the yodeler from the Alps.

Professor Balthazar: Lighthouse Keeping

1969
Utopia
N/A

Location: a lonely house, crowded with everyday things and one man. Objects live their lives; they rejoice harmlessly, they love, they suffer, but above all they enjoy their own liberation from the chains of objectivity, from the restraint of functionality. They childishly surrender to the frenzy of action, to the motion of movement. New beings, mutants of civilization. Objects seen differently.

Utopia

1973
Boomerang
6.7

Today, a butterfly can never be certain that flitting from flower to flower won’t cause major incidents…

Boomerang

1962
Woof Woof
6.0

An excitable dog explores its surroundings.

Woof Woof

1964
Professor Balthazar: The Grand Little Taylor
N/A

Sylvester is a master tailor. He designs only masterpieces. When his sister Vivian gets unstoppable hiccups, shaking everything around them, Sylvester’s job is in danger. With humour, Professor Balthazar solves this case too and Balthazartown gets a new, singing train engine.

Professor Balthazar: The Grand Little Taylor

1972