Zagreb Film

Company type	Private company limited by shares
Industry	Animation,Film production
Founded	1953; 72 years ago (1953)
Headquarters	Zagreb , Croatia
Website	zagrebfilm.hr

Zagreb Film is aCroatianfilm company principally known for itsanimation studio. FromZagreb, it was founded in 1953. They have produced hundreds ofanimated films, as well asdocumentaries,television commercials,educational films and severalfeature films.

Zagreb Film produced thecartoon seriesProfessor Balthazar (Croatian:Profesor Baltazar), created byZlatko Grgić, about an amusing professor who solved various imaginative problems. Another cartoon of theirs wasInspector Mask (Inspektor Maska).

Zagreb Film was founded in 1953 with the main profile of an animated films production company. Since then, more than 600 animated films, 14 feature films, about 600 documentaries and 800 commercials as well as 600 educational films were produced in this studio.

The company operates at three locations; one with ateliers for artists, shooting equipment, small theater and one with film warehouse, video multiplication room and administration. The third location is used for commercial purposes. During all these years, Zagreb Film received more than 400 awards on Festivals all over the world. Among them is the Academy Award - Oscar for the best animated short film in 1962 whereDušan Vukotić had become the first European animator to win the Oscar award forSurogat (Ersatz).^[1] Wealth of genres and different styles that were growing in Zagreb was the reason forGeorges Sadoul, the French film theorist, critic and historian to coin the termZagreb school of animation, what became the trademark for top grade and innovative animated films made in Zagreb. Besides artistic films Zagreb film produced films and TV series likeInspektor Maska,Professor Balthazar,The Little Flying Bears andMaxi Cat. Most of these films were distributed internationally. The biggest global success was with the famous character of Professor Balthazar.^[2]

• Snake (1951)
• Inspektor Maska (1962–1963)
• Professor Balthazar (1967–1978)

• Adam (1970)
• Maxi Cat (1971–1973)
• Ptica i crvek (1978–1984)

• Cowboy Jimmy (1957)
• The Inspector Comes Home (1959)
• Cow on the Moon (1959)^[3]
• Piccolo (1959)^[3]
• Surogat (1961) - 1961Academy Award winner^[4][1]
• Don Kihot
• The Game (1963) - 1963Academy Award nominee^[5][6][7]
• The Wall (1966)^[8]
• Curiosity (1967)
• The Fly (1968)^[9][10]
• Tup Tup (1972) - 1972Academy Award nominee^[11][12]
• Second Class Passenger (1973)
• The Diary (1974)^[13]
• Satiemania (1978)^[14][15]
• Fisheye (1980)^[16]
• Big Time (1990)

• The Little Flying Bears (1990), co-production withCineGroupe
• Dream Doll (1979), co-production withBob Godfrey Films andHalas and Batchelor^[17] (Oscar nominee)^[18][19][20]
• Man: The Polluter (1973), co-production with the National Film Board of Canada

• The Best of Zagreb Film: Be Careful What You Wish For/The Classic Collection (2000)^[21]

• Zagreb School of Animated Films
• Pannonia Film Studio
• Modernist animation

• Official website(in Croatian)
• The Best of Zagreb Film-Rembrandt Films
• Works by or about Zagreb Film at theInternet Archive

• Film production companies of Croatia
• Companies based in Zagreb
• Croatian animation studios
• Croatian animation
• Mass media in Zagreb
• Mass media companies established in 1953
• 1953 establishments in Croatia
• Croatian brands
• Recipients of the Charter of the Republic of Croatia

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