With a retrospective of Orson Welles’ films and an accompanying exhibition at HAZU Glyptotheque (18/11 – 16/12), Zagreb Film Festival is marking the 100th anniversary of birth and 30th death anniversary of the death of this director. An important part of his work is closely connected to Croatia.
The program includes films directed by Welles: The Stranger and The Trial, as well as Krsto Papić’s film The Secret of Nikola Tesla in which Welles played a short but memorable role, and the TVZ show 3, 2, 1… Kreni! which hosted Orson Welles at a TVZ studio, in the company of Oja Kodar.
The Welles’ anniversary will be celebrated at ZFF with an exhibition named 100 Years of Welles at HAZU Glyptotheque (18/11 – 16/12), dedicated to Welles’ visits to Croatia and involvement in our cultural circuit. It will display a documentation of Welles’ visits to Croatia: during the making of Abel Gance’s Austerlitz, or the films The Trial or The Deep, at the premiere of The Battle of Neretva in Sarajevo, or meeting president Tito at Brdo near Kranj. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with Welles’ most important interviews to our media. The curator of the visual part of the exhibition is Feđa Gavrilović and the film-historical part was curated by Daniel Rafaelić.
As a teaser to the program dedicated to the famous director, check out the so far unseen part of the iconic TV show 3, 2, 1… Kreni!, in which Welles at a TVZ studio speaks about the meaning of the mysterious word rosebud, which marked the film history.