The Story of Good People

by France Štiglic

Povest o dobrih ljudeh, 1975, fiction, Digital DCP (2020), 99 min
Finished

YU (SI)

The story is set on an island in the middle of the river Mura, where Jožef and Ana, an old couple, can bear the solitude of their life, because of their affection and their compassion for the blind Katica. The girl is living with them because her mother and stepfather work abroad and only visit her now and then. Katica sings charmingly, pleasing everybody who hears her. One day Peter, the grandson of the old couple, who is a bandit on the run from the police, comes to the house. Katica falls in love with him, her mother Marta is caught by passion. Peter is causing a lot of troubles and he is chased by the police all the time. Katica saves him with her singing in the middle of the marsh and unable to find her way out, drowns.

based on the book by
Miško Kranjec
screenwriter
Andrej Hieng, France Štiglic
director
France Štiglic
director of photography
Rudi Vavpotič
music composer
Uroš Krek
music supervisor
Oliver Telban
film editor
Dušan Povh
production designer
Niko Matul
costume designer
Irena Felicijan
key make-up artist
Hilda Jurečič

featuring
Elvira Kralj, Karel Pogorelec, Bata Živojinović, Olga Kacjan, Majda Grbac, Sandi Krošl

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.