The read
It runs a compact 20m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Frano VodopivecWriter
- Walter NeugebauerWriter
- Eduard GlozWriter
- Norbert NeugebauerWriter
- Albert PregernikWriter
- Walter NeugebauerDirector
- Mirko TrišlerWriter
Cast
- Dragoje Čović(voice)
- Ivan Lalić(voice)
- Josip Sudar(voice)
- Stevo Vujatović(voice)
Themes
journalistpropaganda