Kino Istra: The Girl from the Salt Pans (Bread and Salt)

Kino Istra presents the film The Girl from the Salt Pans (Bread and Salt), directed by František Čáp, 1957, 94 min. The legendary Czech director made this unique Italian-German-Yugoslav co-production in Piran and Portorož, featuring some of the biggest European stars of the time. In this melodrama about survival and love, young Marina is forced to take on hard work in the salt pans after the death of her parents, where she becomes the target of harassment and schemes by the saltworkers.