Don't Cry, Peter

by France Štiglic

Ne joči Peter, 1964, fiction, Digital DCP (2019), 92 min
Finished

YU (SI)

Two partisan miners are entrusted with the task of honor to transfer safely three orphan children from a dangerous zone of fighting to the safe liberated territory. In the beginning the two miners feel humiliated because they would like to engage in more important action, but later they become big friends with the children, especially with Peter, the youngest one.

screenwriter
Ivan Ribič
co-writer
France Štiglic, Andrej Hieng, Vladimir Koch
director
France Štiglic
director of photography
Ivan Marinček
music composer
Alojz Srebotnjak
film editor
Milka Badjura
production designer
Mirko Lipužič
costume designer
Nada Souvan
key make-up artist
Berta Meglič

featuring
Lojze Rozman, Bert Sotlar, Majda Potokar, Zlatko Šugman, Bogdan Lubej

production
Filmski studio Viba Film
distribution
Slovenian Film Centre

Slovenian Film Centre
Jaka Strnad
promocija@sfc.si

In 1948 the director France Štiglic (1919–93) shot On Our Own Land, the first Slovenian live-action feature after World War II. With this full-length debut he qualified among the candidates for the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1949. He then returned to Cannes twice more: in 1957 with The Valley of Peace and in 1960 with his film The Ninth Circle. Both times he was nominated for the Golden Palm. In 1961 The Ninth Circle also qualified, as the Yugoslav candidate, among the finalists nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Štiglic's more prominent achievements also include the films That Beautiful Day; The Ballad of the Trumpet and the Cloud; Don't Cry, Peter; Little Shepherds; and The Story of Good People. His directorial opus includes twelve feature films.