In the picturesque Croatian countryside, inventive villagers run pirate radio stations in their spare time. For an audience barely more than a stone's throw away, they sing and scoff, recite self-written poems, report on Tito's trips to the moon and learn German just in case. Papić's documentary satire was one of the funniest films of the Yugoslav "black wave", for whom humor and self-irony were just as important as the attacks on the political oligarchy. (Tobias Hering)
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Krsto Papić
Papić was born in Vucji Do, near Niksic, in today's Montenegro. His early feature films and documentaries were part of Croatian and Yugoslav New Cinema, and often regarded as Croatian echo of the Black Wave artistic movement that mostly took place within Serbia. Additionally, Papić himself was connected to the Croatian Spring political movement during the early 1970s. He was the member of the Zagreb filmophile circle influenced by the French New Wave, so-called "Hitchcockians". Papić was awarded with Croatia's highest Vladimir Nazor Award for live achievement in cinema in 2006. He died in Zagreb on 7 February 2013.
Selected works:
The Key (1965)
Illusion (1967)
Handcuffs (1969)
A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1973)
The Rat Savior (1976)
The Secret of Nikola Tesla (1980)
My Uncle's Legacy (1988)
