The Great Meeting

Overview

Once upon a time there lived a journalist. Eager to spark interest in his boss’s newspaper, he published news of a colourful bird, more like a parrot than a chicken, less like an ostrich than a swan. No one could work out the origin of this strange bird and a web of sensational stories soon spun, but it burst the moment it came out that the witty journalist repainted an ordinary duck. From that moment on every lie journalists tell is called a ‘canard’. Our film leads directly to the nest of one such duck, in Bucharest, where the inform-propaganda spin doctor Pavel Judin, instructed by wise managerial orders and Moscow, overblows this featherless bird to the pleasure of ones and the derision of others.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1951

Original language

Serbian (Latin)

Spoken languages

Croatian

Countries

Yugoslavia

Production

Duga Film

Cast

Stevo Vujatović,Dragoje Čović,Josip Sudar,Ivan Lalić

Director

Walter Neugebauer

Writer

Eduard Gloz,Albert Pregernik,Frano Vodopivec,Walter Neugebauer,Norbert Neugebauer,Mirko Trišler

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0324421