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The Blue 9

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Music by
  
Bruno Bjelinski

Distributed by
  
Jadran Film

Directed by
  
Krešo Golik assistant directors: Ante Babaja Vladimir Krstulović

Written by
  
Krešo Golik Hrvoje Macanović Geno Senečić

Starring
  
Antun Nalis Irena Kolesar

Cinematography
  
Nikola Tanhofer Slavko Zalar

The Blue 9 (Plavi 9) is a 1950 Croatian football comedy film. The film was directed by Krešo Golik.

That film is a bizarre mixture of the Soviet-style industrial epic, romantic comedy and football film. It is famous for superbly directed football sequences. After release it quickly became the biggest hit of then-young Yugoslav cinema.

This film is first Croatian movie with sport as the main topic. The Blue 9 is also first Croatian comedy film from sound era.

Movie was filmed on the locations in Croatia (Split, Rijeka and Zagreb) and in Serbia (Belgrade).

References

The Blue 9 Wikipedia