Nikola Kostelac
Directing
Known For
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

Robot Minus serves Doctor Sinus, its creator and constructor, who works at a desk. However, a magnetic horseshoe gets into the robot’s mechanism and disrupts its functioning. Dr. Sinus first tries to tame the Robot, then breaks it, but it’s all in vain.
An All-Round Help

A poster announcing the opening night of an opera. A crowd of snobs, so called »music lovers« rushes in. The tenor, well aware of his magnificence, has some troubles in his wardrobe with his button refusing to fit in his collar.
Opening Night

Short animated film.
Cupido

Two men on the meadow fight for one flower.
On the Meadow

A sports journalist engages in a romantic rivalry with a boxing champion.
The Ring

Short animated film. The surreal routes and roads are combined with the late-night feeling of the short and cartoony cars designs.
Nocturno

A boy falls into his prehistoric book and falls in love with a cave girl.
An Encounter in a Dream

Short animated film.
All Because of a Plate

The first color cartoon made in Yugoslavia and the first award-winning cartoon of Yugoslav cinema, with a diploma at the Berlin Film Festival. Writing a review of the Little Red Riding Hood in the Narodni list (April 9, 1955), Nenad Turkalj humorously remarks: “From the material on which Disney would base the entire (episodically stretched) feature film, our artists have made a witty foreplay, which is suitable for both its purposes: as a suggestive storyline for children’s imagination, and as a funny coloured spectacle for adult viewers who will laugh at many jokes.