| The Cormorant Scarecrow[1] | |
| Director: | Branko Ištvančić |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
| Country: | Croatia |
| Language: | Croatian |
The Cormorant Scarecrow (Plašitelj kormorana) is a Croatian documentary film directed by Branko Ištvančić. It was released in 1998.
The film has received a number of awards and is seen by many as the best Croatian documentary of the 1990s.[2]
The film depicts the daily lives of people whose job is to chase away cormorants that eat fish from a fish farm near Donji Miholjac, Croatia. Cormorants are protected by law and their nesting grounds are located across the border, in Hungary, which gives the protagonists' efforts a Sisyphean, absurdist feel.[3]