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The Way to Paradise (film)
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Wikipedia article
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'The Way to Paradise' is a 1970 Croatian film directed by Mario Fanelli and written by Miroslav Krlea, starring Boris Buzani and Ljuba Tadi. Krlea based the script on his own novellas 'The Cricket under a Waterfall' and 'The Finale'. It was the first film adaptation of his literary work, and the only one he was personally involved with.
Plot
A man dies and goes to heaven, escaping the predicament of the modern civilisation. However, once there, he encounters similar people and situations.
Cast
* Boris Buzani as Professor Bernardo Leander
* Ljuba Tadi as the doctor
* Zvonko Strmac as chief physician
* Mato Grkovi as priest from the sarcophagus
* Sneana Niki as Miss Amalija
* Svjetlana Kneevi as Marijana
* Zvonko Lepeti as Ensign Bandera
* Jovan Liina as chief physician's patient
* Branko Supek as Cadet Rizling
* Relja Bai as Kristian Pendrekovski
* Viktor Stari as Baron Silvester
* Dragan Milivojevi as first councillor to the embassy
* Antun Nalis as surgeon
* Vladimir Medar as chemist
* Branka Strmac as the lady with the black hat
* Ljiljana Gazdi as the woman who committed suicide from a window
Reception
The film was poorly received at the time of its release. Croatian cinema historian Ivo krabalo described it as a film where "Krleian rhetoric was not completed by suggestive development of the plot, so that one could hear only an outpouring of words on the screen, without connected connotations found in literature." The film did not enter competition at the 1971 Pula Film Festival.
Krlea disagreed with the critics of 'The Way to Paradise' who had argued that extensive "meditative dialogue" dominated the film, maintaining his belief that "the human word in a film is equivalent to camera" and that without it, film is "merely commedia dell'arte and nothing else". Nevertheless, he was disappointed by the reception, and denied permissions for film adaptations of his works for the rest of his life.
References
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