The Seventh Continent (Croatian: Sedmi kontinent) is a 1966 Yugoslav and Czechoslovak co-production film directed by Dušan Vukotić.
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Plot
A group of children discovers a new continent, not inhabited by adults. Soon, thousands of children of all races begin to abandon their parents and arrive at the new continent, forming a friendly and joyous society, where everyone is equal. Their parents realize children are going missing all over the world and begin to look for them, but are unaware of the existence of the seventh continent.
Cast
Demeter Bitenc as White Boy's Father
Karla Chadimová as General's Wife
Vanja Drach as Diplomat
Oudy Rachmat Endang as Yellow Girl's Father
Mikloš Huba as General
Jindřich Láznička
Antun Nalis as Otac djece
Tomislav Pasarić as White Boy
Hermina Pipinić as White Boy's Mother
Abdoulaye Seck as Black Boy
Viktor Starčić as Expert at Conference
Iris Vrus as Yellow Girl
Dano Živojinović
Production
The film was shot in Ulcinj, Montenegro. A number of children of foreign diplomats serving in Yugoslavia were cast in the film. Abdoulaye Seck, playing the role of the Black Boy, was the son of a Senegalese diplomat stationed in Belgrade.
Themes and reception
Croatian film critic Nenad Polimac described the film as a "benign fairytale-like fantasy with a moral". The Croatian Film Association database of Croatian cinema notes the film's criticism of the modern civilization and its mechanisms of repression, as well as its poetic visuals, but also its ultimately excessive idealization of the children's world, stereotypically contrasted with the world of grown-ups.