Branko Bauer

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1921-02-18

Deathday 2002-04-11 (81 years old)

Place of Birth Dubrovnik, Croatia, Yugoslavia

Also Known As Бранко Бауэр

Branko Bauer

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

1978
Boško Buha

as Director

1975
1967
1965
To Come and Stay

as Director

1964
Nikoletina Bursac

as Director

1963
Face to Face

as Director

1962
Superfluous

as Director

1961
1959
1957
Only People

as Director

1956
1955
1953
The Grey Seagull

as Director

Writer

1967
1964
1962
Superfluous

as Writer

1961
Martin in the Clouds

as Adaptation

1959
1953

Creator

1976