The experimental and associative films of Ante Babaja, one of the grand masters of Croatian cinema, have decisively shaped his country’s filmmaking history. In GOOD MORNING we see Babaja himself on the screen: an 80-year-old resident in an old people’s home. The director’s self-observation delivers something between a filmic legacy – he inserts footage from his earlier films – and a document of our times. By turns a thoughtful study of life in a home and, with quietly humorous undertones, a solemn depiction of growing old, of the transience of life, of faith.
35mm | Farbe / colour
Ante Babaja
Ante Babaja, Goran Trbuljak, Tomislav Jagec
Vesna Biljan, Ruben Albahari
HRT – Hrvatska Radiotelevizija
Sava – udruga građana
Ivanićgradska 59b
Zagreb
Croatia
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Ante Babaja - born 1927 in Imotski. A graduate of economics and law, he made his first short film in 1955. Alongside full-length features, he began to make experimental films in the 1960s, and taught at the Zagreb Film Academy. He has received a number of awards for his life’s work.
JEDAN DAN NA RIJEČI (1955, short, doc)
CAREVO NOVO RUHO (1961)
TIJELO (1965, short, doc)
ČUJEŠ LI ME? (1965, short, doc)
BREZA (1967)
MIRISI, ZLAT I TAMJAN (1971)
ČEKAONICA (1975, short, doc)
IZGUBLJENI ZAVIČAJ (1980)
KAMENITA VRATA (1992)