Don't Look Back, My Son
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| name = Don't Look Back, My Son
| image = Don't Look Back, My Son.jpg
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| native_name = Ne okreći se, sine
| director = Branko Bauer
| producer =
| writer = Branko Bauer
Arsen Diklić
| narrator =
| starring = Bert Sotlar
Zlatko Lukman
| music = Bojan Adamič
| cinematography = Branko Blažina
| editing = Boris Tešija
| studio = Jadran Film
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1956|07|16|df=yes}}
| runtime = 111 minutes
| country = Yugoslavia
| language = Serbo-Croatian
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| gross =
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Don't Look Back, My Son (Serbo-Croatian: Ne okreći se, sine), also known as My Son, Don't Turn Round in the United States, is a 1956 Yugoslav film by Croatian director Branko Bauer. It is based on a children's novel of the same name by Arsen Diklić.{{Cite web |title=Baza HR kinematografije |url=http://hrfilm.hr/baza_film.php?id=286 |access-date=2023-11-06 |website=hrfilm.hr |language=hr}}
In 1999, a poll of Croatian film critics found it to be the eighth greatest Croatian film ever made.{{cite news | url = http://arhiv.slobodnadalmacija.hr/19991128/kultura.htm | language = Croatian | newspaper = Slobodna Dalmacija | title = "Tko pjeva, zlo ne misli" najbolji hrvatski film svih vremena! | date = 1999-11-28 | accessdate = 2013-02-08}}
Plot
During World War II, engineer Neven Novak, a member of the illegal partisan resistance, escapes from a train with which the Ustashe are transporting prisoners to Jasenovac. After a successful escape, he tries to rescue his son Zoran, a boy who has been indoctrinated into Ustasha and Nazi-fascist ideology, from the Ustasha children's home in Zagreb. When Zoran learns that his father is an enemy of the regime, he refuses to flee with him to partisan territory. Novak is faced with his son's resistance and increased pressure that the police and agents are placing on him.
Cast
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- Bert Sotlar as Neven Novak
- Zlatko Lukman as Zoran Novak
- Lila Andres as Vera
- Radojko Ježić as Leo
- Zlatko Madunić as agent
- Tihomir Polanec as shoe cleaner
- Marija Merlić as Paola
- Viki Glovacki as porter
- Branko Špoljar as Brkić
- Nikša Stefanini as head of Ustasha unit
- Mladen Šerment as gravedigger
- Ivo Pajić as ustasha
- Kruno Valentić as policeman
- Stjepan Jurčević as Ivica's father
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Awards
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0049546}}
- [http://www.filmski-programi.hr/baza_film.php?id=286 Don't Look Back, My Son] at Filmski-Programi.hr {{in lang|hr}}
Category:1950s Croatian-language films
Category:Yugoslav war drama films
Category:Films directed by Branko Bauer
Category:Croatian black-and-white films
Category:Yugoslav black-and-white films
Category:Croatian war drama films
Category:1950s war drama films
Category:Films scored by Bojan Adamič
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