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A Misunderstanding

1958 · 12 min

A wry, quiet little fable about how easily people are swayed by confident nonsense, amusing rather than laugh-out-loud.

Directed by
Ante Babaja
Genres
Drama
Overview
The local postal service makes a mistake delivering a small figurative sculpture to a miller and a miller stone to a museum. The museum curator, not aware of the mistake, starts celebrating this abstract shape, influencing even the local artists to imitate that kind of shapes when portraying people.

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Directed by
Ante Babaja
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • media
  • deception
  • identity
Places
  • small town
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism7
Romance0
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity5
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Ante Babaja
Written by
Božidar Violić
Runtime
12 min
Country
Yugoslavia
Languages
No Language

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