O, Vrba

[1] It was commissioned by the Educational Union (Slovene: Prosvetna zveza), directed by Mario Förster [sl] and produced in 1941 under the auspice of the company Emona Film.

[3] Due to the so-called "cultural silence" imposed in the Slovene Lands during World War II, it was released only in 1945 by the State Film Company.

[2] It is a short black and white film that shows the Prešeren House after it was opened as a museum, on the day when the authors found out about the German assault on Poland, reflected in a dark atmosphere of clouds traversing the Karawanks.

[2] It contains voice recordings of the writer Fran Saleški Finžgar, who led the arrangement of the house, and of the poet Oton Župančič, who recited the Prešeren's poem O Vrba.

[1] The montage and mixing of sound and picture were done by Rudi Omota [sl].