Elegy

Being a cartoonist and caricaturist Dragić applied for a competition organised by Zagreb Film and so his succesful career as an animator started However his films remained strongly connected with his comic strips both in terms of style and narrative and some of these are actually the animated version of his comics Elegy Dragićs debut film for example is based on his comic called Nostalgia as he explains in an interview with BosnianSwedish theorist and animator Midhat Ajanović in his book Nedeljko Dragić The Man and the Line 2014 Elegy is about a prisoner longing for the flower that caught his eye through the bars of his cell The animation is quite static a quality coming from his background in comics