Kekec's Tricks

1968 Slovenian film

23 December 1968 (1968-12-23)

Running time

78 minutesCountriesSlovenia
YugoslaviaLanguageSlovene

Kekec's Tricks (Slovene: Kekčeve ukane) is a 1968 Yugoslav/Slovenian adventure film directed by Jože Gale. The film is based on the Kekec mountain narratives by Josip Vandot, originally published in Slovenian youth magazine Zvonček. It was produced at Viba film and distributed originally at Vesna film and currently at Viba film.

This is the last of three in the Jože Gale film series about Kekec and has two previous parts: Kekec from 1951 and Good Luck, Kekec (Srečno, Kekec!) from 1963.

Plot

In the third and last part of the film trilogy about Kekec (Zlatko Krasnič), the evil poacher Bedanec (Polde Bibič) appears again. Kekec and his friends chase and hunt Bedanec again and drive him away. Nevertheless Bedanec catches Brincelj (Milorad Radovič) and Rožle (Boris Ivanovski). The brave Kekec saves both of them with the help of his wisdom and tricks Bedanec, who gets caught in one of his own traps he set.

Kekec saves Bedanec out of the trap because he politely asks him, but Bedanec doesn't learn anything out of this. A wise man Vitranc (Jože Zupan) wants to bring peace to these places.

Cast

Actor	Character
Zlatko Krasnič	Kekec
Polde Bibič	Bedanec
Boris Ivanovski	Rožle
Jasna Krofak	Mojca
Fanika Podobnikar	Tinkara
Milorad Radovič	Brincelj
Jože Zupan	Vitranc

Music

The whole music including theme was composed by Bojan Adamič, a Slovenian composer. Lyrics for theme song called "Kekčeva pesem" were written by Kajetan Kovič and performed by Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra.