Krsto Papić

Personal Info

Known For Director

Birthday 1933-12-07

Deathday 2013-02-07 (79 years old)

Place of Birth Vučji Do, Montenegro

Krsto Papić

Biography

Krsto Papić (7 December 1933 – 7 February 2013) was a Croatian screenwriter and film director whose career spanned several decades. Papić was born in Vučji Do, near Nikšić in today's Montenegro. His early feature films and documentaries were part of Croatian and Yugoslav New Cinema, and often regarded as Croatian echo of the Black Wave artistic movement that mostly took place within Serbia. Additionally, Papić himself was connected to the Croatian Spring political movement during the early 1970s. He was the member of the Zagreb filmophile circle influenced by the French New Wave, so-called "Hitchcockians", along with film-makers and critics Ante Peterlić, Zoran Tadić, Branko Ivanda, Petar Krelja and centered around film critics Vladimir Vuković and Hrvoje Lisinski. Papić's two best-known early feature films, Lisice and Predstava Hamleta u Mrduši Donjoj, were often attacked from the government sources. Lisice did not get permission to represent Yugoslavia in the Cannes Film Festival, so it entered Quinzaine program in 1970.Izbavitelj was heavily criticised by Stipe Šuvar, who alluded that film's allegory about Fascism actually also refers to the Communism. Papić's subsequent feature films were more classical in its narration, but again politically controversial in the last decade of Yugoslavia. Particularly My Uncle's Legacy, critical picture of Yugoslavia's political situation under titoism during Informbiro period, which won nomination for Golden Globe in 1989, has been surrounded by controversy and political attacks from traditional Party circles and especially Partisan Veterans' organisations, so the production was delayed for couple of years, but achieved due to support of intellectuals, newspapers and Party fractions in the time of disolvement and fight among Party fractions in last years of the Yugoslav federation. Papić was awarded with Croatia's highest Vladimir Nazor Award for live achievement in cinema in 2006, and with Grand Prix Special des Amériques at the Montreal Film Festival in 2004.

Known For

Director

2013
Flower Square

as Director

2003
Infection

as Director

1991
Story from Croatia

as Director

1988
My Uncle's Legacy

as Director

1976
The Rat Savior

as Director

1975
A Little Journey

as Director

1975
1972
Special Trains

as Director

1970
Handcuffs

as Director

1969
The Hub

as Director

1968
Hallo, Munich

as Director

1967
Illusion

as Director

1965
The Key

as Director

Writer

2003
Infection

as Writer

1991
1988
1976
The Rat Savior

as Writer

1975
1972
Special Trains

as Screenplay

1970
Handcuffs

as Writer

1969
The Hub

as Writer

1968
Hallo, Munich

as Writer

1967
Illusion

as Writer

1965
The Key

as Writer

Actor

2003
2001
1983
The Third Key

as Franjo

1969
The Hub

as Himself