Portret bivšeg partizana, osamljenog i nezadovoljnog društvom za koje se borio jedan je od četiri hrvatska dokumentarna filma u produkciji ‘Zagreb filma’ koja su početkom 1973. godine povučena s beogradskog festivala kratkometražnog i dokumentarnog filma. Babićev film ocijenjen je politički provokativnim i on je zajedno s drugim prozvanim autorima, Kreljom i Benažićem, bio suđen na dvodnevnom plenumu u Društvu filmskih radnika gdje je Ivica Račan svima presudio već poznatim riječima: ‘Umjetnička sloboda – da, ali u okvirima samoupravnog socijalizma!’
Nikola Babić
Nikola Babić was born in 1935 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is one of the most prominent Croatian documentary makers of the 70s, who also inclined to experiments. He graduated at Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and made his directorial debut in 1969 with a short documentary ‘Nova Jugoslavija’. His latest film is a controversial political documentary ‘Bruno Bušić’ (1992) in which he used an investigation about murderers of a famous immigrant to confront some people at the Croatian political scene. His documentary opus can be divided in 3 stages: dedicated to showing human nature in play (awarded ‘Mur bur’, 1969; ‘Vox Populi’, ‘Šije’, both 1970), about ex soldiers of different armies (‘Bino, oko galebovo’), and about human persistence and achievements (‘Jači od mora’, 1975). He also made two narrative features - ‘Ludi dani’ i ‘Medeni mjesec’.
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