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Branko Bauer (1921-2002)

Alias:
Бранко Бауэр

Birthplace:
Dubrovnik, Croatia, Yugoslavia

Born:
February 18, 1921

Died:
April 11, 2002

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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Film Production

Adaptation:
1961  Martin in the Clouds

Dialogue:
1959  Three Girls Named Ana
1961  Martin in the Clouds

Director:
1953  The Grey Seagull
1954  First Revue of Domestic Yugoslav cinema in Yugoslavia
1954  The Dream of the Little Ballerina
1955  Millions on the Island
1956  Don't Look Back, My Son
1957  Only People
1959  Three Girls Named Ana
1961  Martin in the Clouds
1962  Superfluous
1963  Face to Face
1964  Nikoletina Bursac
1965  To Come and Stay
1967  The Fourth Companion
1975  Wintering in Jakobsfeld
1976  The Farm in the Small Marsh
1978  Boško Buha

Writer:
1953  The Grey Seagull
1954  First Revue of Domestic Yugoslav cinema in Yugoslavia
1954  The Dream of the Little Ballerina
1955  Millions on the Island
1956  Don't Look Back, My Son
1957  Only People
1959  Three Girls Named Ana
1961  Martin in the Clouds
1962  Superfluous
1963  Face to Face
1964  Nikoletina Bursac
1965  To Come and Stay
1967  The Fourth Companion
1975  Wintering in Jakobsfeld
1976  The Farm in the Small Marsh
1978  Boško Buha

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TV Production

Creator:
1976  Salas u malom ritu
????  Salaš u Malom Ritu

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