Surogat[1] (known in English as Ersatz and The Substitute) is a 1961 Yugoslav short animated film by Croatian director Dušan Vukotić, produced by Zagreb Film, then a Yugoslav film production company. The film is also known by several other names in other languages: Cyррогат, Der Ersatz, Le Succēdanē and Surrogatto.[2]
| Surogat Ersatz The Substitute | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Dušan Vukotić |
| Written by | Rudolf Sremec |
| Music by | Tomica Simović |
Production company | Zagreb Film |
| Distributed by | Herts-Lion and Gelt Ventures |
Release date |
|
Running time | 10 minutes |
| Country | Yugoslavia |
A man takes a trip to the beach and every object he brings with him, no matter how unlikely, is inflatable.[3][4]
The film won an Academy Award for Short Subjects (Cartoons) in 1962.[5][6]
The Academy Film Archive preserved Ersatz in 2012.[7]