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On the occasion of Rene Medvešek's stage adaptation of the film One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, this text centres on the Croatian classic and tries to present the implications, potentials and traps of such a transfer in today's context from different angles. Stage adaptation can revitalize the interest in the analysis of the film considered one of the best Croatian films but it can also trigger so far unexplored associations. Although Medvešek's adaptation does not deviate from the intention to present a homage to Golik and Majer's work, several new elements or procedures raise new questions about the cinematic or rather literary predecessor while the time and the institution in which the play was staged bring their own interpretation potential, as well as their own requirements. Juxtaposing the critique and reception at the time of Golik's film premiere and the critique and reception in the more recent time of Medvešek's premiere, one can observe how the film has calcified into a classic with time, but at the same time how those joints can and have to be repeatedly limbered up. One can also find out what such a nostalgic revival of the film with nostalgia inherent to it means for today's critique and audience, and if it is possible, to what extent and how, to inscribe more ambitious meaning to the analysis of film to which the audience is a priori so sentimentally attached. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]