''Atomic War Bride'' () is a 1960
Yugoslav science-fiction and drama film directed by
Veljko Bulajić.
The film won three Golden Arena awards at the 1960
Pula Film Festival
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, including for
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Film awards
* AACTA Award for Best Direction
* Academy Award for Best Director
* As ...
(Veljko Bulajić),
Best Actor (
Antun Vrdoljak
Antun Vrdoljak (; born 5 June 1931) is a Croatian film actor and director, sports official, and head of Croatian Radiotelevision during the Yugoslav Wars. Between the 1960s and early 1990s he was mainly a film artist. In the early 1990s he became ...
) and Best Scenography (Duško Jeričević),
and was nominated for the
Golden Lion
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award at the 1960
Venice Film Festival
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.
Plot
At a church in the country, eternally optimistic John marries Maria, unaware that a nuclear war is about to begin, and she becomes his Atomic War Bride.
References
External links
*
''Atomic War Bride''at hrfilm.hr
1960 films
1960s science fiction drama films
Croatian black-and-white films
Films about nuclear war and weapons
Films directed by Veljko Bulajić
Films shot in Croatia
Jadran Film films
Serbo-Croatian-language films
Films with screenplays by Cesare Zavattini
Yugoslav science fiction drama films
Croatian science fiction drama films
Films set in Yugoslavia
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