The Great Meeting

The Great Meeting

20 mins | Animation | Jan. 1, 1951

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.

The Great Meeting

20 mins | Animation | Jan. 1, 1951

The Great Meeting
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.
Producers Duga Film
Original title Veliki miting
Directors Walter Neugebauer
Writers Mirko Trišler, Eduard Gloz, Walter Neugebauer, Norbert Neugebauer, Albert Pregernik, Frano Vodopivec

Cast

Dragoje Čović

as (voice)

Ivan Lalić

as (voice)

Josip Sudar

as (voice)

Stevo Vujatović

as (voice)