Person

Branko Bauer

Directing · 1921–2002 · Dubrovnik, Croatia, Yugoslavia

Branko Bauer (18 February 1921 – 11 April 2002) was a Croatian film director. He is considered to be the leading figure of classical narrative cinema in Croatian and Yugoslav cinema of the 1950s. Bauer became interested in cinema as a school boy. During World War Two he attended local cinemas in Zagreb, which were very popular during the Nazi occupation. His father Čedomir Bauer and he hid their Jewish tenant Ljerka Freiberger from the Croatian Ustashi police in 1942. As a result of these actions, Yad Vashem honored both of them as Righteous among the Nations in 1992. In 1949, Branko began working in the Zagreb-based Jadran Film studio as a documentary filmmaker. His feature debut was the 1953 children's adventure film The Blue Seagull (Sinji galeb) which distinguished his work from then-native Yugoslav productions through vivid visual style and natural acting.

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  Superfluous

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  The Farm in the Small Marsh

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  Salas u malom ritu

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  Bosko Buha

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  The Grey Seagull

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• First Revue of Domestic Yugoslav cinema in Yugoslavia

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  Boshko Buha

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  Three Girls Named Ana

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  Wintering in Jakobsfeld

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• The Fourth Companion

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• 1980Bosko BuhaDirector
• 1978Boshko BuhaDirector
• 1976Salas u malom rituDirector
• 1976The Farm in the Small MarshWriter
• 1975Wintering in JakobsfeldDirector
• 1967The Fourth CompanionDirector
• 1965To Come and StayDirector
• 1964Nikoletina BursacDirector
• 1963Face to FaceDirector
• 1962SuperfluousDirector
• 1961Martin in the CloudsDirector
• 1959Three Girls Named AnaDirector
• 1957Only PeopleDirector
• 1956Don't Look Back, My SonDirector
• 1955Millions on the IslandDirector
• 1954First Revue of Domestic Yugoslav cinema in YugoslaviaDirector
• 1954The Dream of the Little BallerinaWriter
• 1953The Grey SeagullDirector
• —Salaš u Malom RituCreator