Drak sa vracia

In 1948 the Hungarian film theorist and director Béla Balász contributed to the first version of the script for this film, based on a novella of the same name from 1943 by Dobroslav Chrobák. In 1952 the then FAMU student Eduard Grečner composed a new version, yet he was only able to shoot the film several years later: the end result stands outs with its unusual combination of natural panoramas and folk motifs with cinematic experiments and a multi-award-winning avant-garde soundtrack by Ilja Zeljenka, quite possibly the most important Slovak film composer of his time.