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The international title for this Yugoslavian animated film is "Curiosity" and it is told using rather simple animation and a very limited color palate (perhaps it has faded a lot over the years, but most of the colors are very, very subdued and white prevails).

AS guy is sitting on a park bench. He falls asleep now and again as people keep coming up to see what he had in a bag sitting next to him. It's all very silly and overly exaggerated...but also kind of funny because of its absurdity. I am sure that after a while, the audience, too, becomes curious--especially because when people do look inside the sack, they make odd faces--it must be something pretty strange. See the film yourself if you, too are curious.

While the animation is only okay, the idea of showing how stupidly curious we all can be is pretty cute. Not exactly a must-see film, but since it's not at all dependent upon language (using nonsense speech instead of a Slavic or other language), it's a good film for anyone to watch.

Borivoj Dovnikovic-Bordo's "Znatiželja" ("Curiosity" in English) looks at humanity's proclivity to look into trivial topics. The main character suffers repeated interruptions as passersby try to find out what he has in a paper bag.

I've seen a number of cartoons from the Eastern Bloc over the years, mostly the Czech ones. But I've recently started watching a number of Yugoslavian cartoons. I've liked all the ones that I've seen. It goes to show that talent is all that a cartoon needs to be good, and that cartoons don't always have to be cute stuff for children. Indeed, cartoons are one of the best ways to satirize society's shortcomings. Watching these cartoons, one gets the feeling that people's day-to-day lives weren't much different in the communist countries than they were in the Western Bloc.

As for Croatian cinema, I also recommend "A Wonderful Night in Split", about some stories centering on a concert.