{"id":226,"date":"2013-05-14T19:46:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T23:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aleksandarpetrovic.org\/english\/?page_id=226"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:13:53","slug":"flight-over-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aleksandarpetrovic.org\/en\/filmography\/documentaries-and-short-films\/flight-over-the-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight Over The Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Flight Over The Swamp<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

 (Let nad mo\u010dvarom)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A magnificient poem of the tragic love between two wild ducks. The suicidal sacrifice of the male for his female, we do not witness a hunting scene, but a real tragedy of the birds Romeo and Juliet. \u2013 Dusan Makavejev 1957<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Production company:<\/td>Slavija film, Belgrade, 1957<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Screenplay:<\/td>Aleksandar Petrovi\u0107<\/td><\/tr>
Director:<\/td>Aleksandar Petrovi\u0107<\/td><\/tr>
Camera:<\/td>J. Jovanovi\u0107, S. Banovi\u0107<\/td><\/tr>
Text (in voice-over):<\/td>Vicko Raspor<\/td><\/tr>
Film editing:<\/td>M. Levi<\/td><\/tr>
Editor:<\/td>K. Haristiades<\/td><\/tr>
Harfa:<\/td>V. Milankovi\u0107<\/td><\/tr>
Tone recording:<\/td>M. Nedi\u0107<\/td><\/tr>
Choice of music:<\/td>Aleksandar Petrovi\u0107<\/td><\/tr>
Set organizer:<\/td>I. Gaj<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Awards, honors, festivals:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • L\u2019Europe autour de l\u2019Europe Festival, Paris-Normandy 2011<\/li>\n
  • International Films Festival<\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/span>Cinema City, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2009 <\/span>– <\/span>Hommage to national auteur <\/span>Aleksandar Sacha Petrovi\u0107 <\/span><\/li>\n
  • Europe around Europe Festival, Paris 2008<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Documentary Film Festival of Rennes, November 17-22, 1992<\/li>\n
  • Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, Yugoslav Cinema, 1986<\/li>\n
  • Yugoslavian Short Film Festival in Belgrade, March 1960<\/li>\n
  • London Film Festival<\/li>\n
  • Moscow Film Festival<\/li>\n
  • Edinburgh Film Festival<\/li>\n
  • IV Pula Film Festival 1957: Critic\u2019s Prize<\/li>\n
  • Cannes International Film Festival 1957<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>
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Cannes Film Festival 1957: screening of Flight Over the Swamp<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Cannes Film Festival 1957: screening of Flight Over the Swamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Press review<\/b>:<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

 <\/b>\u201cThis movie is a perfect poem about the love between two birds; with little words that all find their place and an excellent choice of music. We will never live Beethoven\u2019s intimate Symphony Pastoral the same, accompanied by the images, the plot, the cinematic truth of an extraordinary experience that we share in this film. <\/i>Mira Boglic \u201cVjesnik\u201d 8\/2\/1057<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI really loved the poetry of the short yugoslavian film Flight Over The Swamp that naturalistically exposes the love between two wild ducks\u2026\u201d<\/i> Georges Sadoul, Lettres francaises, Cannes Film Festival, 1957<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aleksandar Petrovic talks about Flight Over The Swamp<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy using real events, I attempted to create a documentary that is organized by the principals of a fiction film (at least on the dramaturgy and montage aspects), by also using plot, actors (the birds) and a vital truth, which all together allowed me to reach my goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what is significant for me and for the evolution of my work in Flight Over The Swamp<\/i>: I started with a fact, a lived experience, a truth that was used to understand and define other more general truths, as is the order of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are not on Earth to judge, we have to tell the truth, the heart and reason of the audience will hold the judgement.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the filming of Flight Over The Swamp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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