The Man to Destroy

The Man to Destroy
Directed by	Veljko Bulajić
Written by	Veljko Bulajić
Starring	Zvonimir Črnko
Release date	29 March 1979 (1979-03-29)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Yugoslavia
Language	Serbo-Croatian

The Man to Destroy (Serbo-Croatian: Čovjek koga treba ubiti) is a 1979 Yugoslav historical-fantasy film directed by Veljko Bulajić, made in Croatian-Montenegrin coproduction. The film was selected as the Yugoslav entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 52nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

The film won grand prix at the Sitges Film Festival in 1980, while Bulajić was awarded for best direction at the Paris International Festival of Fantastic and Science-Fiction Film. It also won ESFS Award, and was awarded by European Science Fiction Society at Eurocon 1980, as best film of the year (tie-in with Luigi Cozzi's Starcrash).

Cast

• Zvonimir Črnko as Farfa odnosno Scepan Mali / car Petar III
• Vladimir Popović as Kapetan Tanovic
• Charles Millot as Agent prvog reda
• Ranko Kovačević as Djakon
• Tanja Bošković as Elfa
• Dušica Žegarac as Justina
• Tanasije Uzunović as Vrhovni sotona
• Mate Ergović as Stanko Palikarda, Elfin otac
• Zuzana Kocúriková as Zefira, bludnica
• Danilo Radulović
• Antun Nalis
• Ivica Pajer as Ruski Knez
• Ivo Vukcevic
• Veljko Mandic as Crnogorac

See also

• List of submissions to the 52nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

External links

• The Man to Destroy at IMDb