''It Was Not in Vain'' () is a 1957 Yugoslavian

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Nikola Tanhofer Nikola Tanhofer (; 25 December 1926 – 24 November 1998) was a Croatian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the r ...

. It was entered into the

7th Berlin International Film Festival The 7th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June to 2 July 1957. The Golden Bear was awarded to '' 12 Angry Men'' directed by Sidney Lumet. The International Federation of Film Critics awarded FIPRESCI Award for the firs ...

Cast

Boris Buzančić Boris Buzančić (13 March 1929 – 9 October 2014) was a Croatian actor and politician who served as the 47th Mayor of Zagreb between 1990 and 1993. A native of Bjelovar, Buzančić began acting very early. He appeared in numerous films and TV ...

Mira Nikolić Mira (), designation Omicron Ceti (ο Ceti, abbreviated Omicron Cet, ο Cet), is a red-giant star estimated to be 200–300 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Cetus. ο Ceti is a binary stellar system, consisting of a varia ...

Mia Oremović Mia Oremović (31 July 1918 – 24 July 2010) was a Croatian theatre, film and television actress. Selected filmography *'' It Was Not in Vain'' (1957) *'' H-8'' (1958) *''I Have Two Mothers and Two Fathers'' (1968) *''One Song a Day Takes Mischi ...

* Zlata Perlić *

Zvonimir Rogoz Zvonimir Rogoz (10 October 1887 – 6 February 1988) was a Croatian actor who played in German, Croatian, Slovenian, Czech and Slovak, on stage and in cinema, during a career lasting 81 years. A native of Zagreb, Rogoz started his actor ...

* Vjera Simić * Ivan Šubić *

Ljuba Tadić Ljubomir "Ljuba" Tadić ( sr-cyr, Љубомир Љуба Тадић; 31 May 1929 – 28 October 2005) was a Yugoslav actor who enjoyed a reputation as one of the greatest names in the history of former Yugoslav cinema. Biography He made his scr ...

(as Ljubo Tadić) *

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 ...

Mladen Šerment Mladen () is a South Slavic masculine given name, derived from the Slavic root ''mlad'' (, ), meaning "young". It is present in Bosnian, Slovenian, Montenegrin, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and Croatian society since the Middle Ages. Not ...

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* 1957 films 1957 drama films Serbo-Croatian-language films Yugoslav black-and-white films Films directed by Nikola Tanhofer Jadran Film films 1957 directorial debut films Yugoslav drama films Films set in Yugoslavia {{Yugoslavia-film-stub