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The Seventh Continent (1966 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Seventh Continent' is a 1966 Yugoslav and Czechoslovakian co-production film directed by Duan Vukoti.
Plot
A group of children discovers a new continent, not inhabited by adults. Soon, thousands of children of all races begin to abandon their parents and arrive at the new continent, forming a friendly and joyous society, where everyone is equal. Their parents realize children are going missing all over the world and begin to look for them, but are unaware of the existence of the seventh continent...
Cast
* Demeter Bitenc as White Boy's Father
* Karla Chadimov as General's Wife
* Vanja Drach as Diplomat
* Oudy Rachmat Endang as Yellow Girl's Father
* Miklo Huba as General
* Jindich Lznika
* Antun Nalis as Otac djece
* Tomislav Pasari as White Boy
* Hermina Pipini as White Boy's Mother
* Abdoulaye Seck as Black Boy
* Viktor Stari as Expert at Conference
* Iris Vrus as Yellow Girl
* Dano ivojinovi
Production
The film was shot in Ulcinj, Montenegro. A number of children of foreign diplomats serving in Yugoslavia were cast in the film. Abdoulaye Seck, playing the role of the Black Boy, was the son of a Senegalese diplomat stationed in Belgrade.
Themes and reception
Croatian film critic Nenad Polimac described the film as a "benign fairytale-like fantasy with a moral". The Croatian Film Association database of Croatian cinema notes the film's criticism of the modern civilization and its mechanisms of repression, as well as its poetic visuals, but also its ultimately excessive idealization of the children's world, stereotypically contrasted with the world of grown-ups.
References
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