Boštjan Hladnik

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1929-01-30

Deathday 2006-05-30 (77 years old)

Place of Birth Kranj, Slovenia, Yugoslavia

Also Known As Bostjan Hladnik

Boštjan Hladnik

Biography

Boštjan Hladnik (30 January 1929 – 30 May 2006) was a Yugoslav/Slovene filmmaker. Hladnik was born in Kranj. He started with amateur short films after acquiring a projector and a 8mm camera in 1947. From 1949 he studied at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana and made a name for himself with several highly acclaimed short films. In 1957, Hladnik moved to Paris to apprentice under French filmmakers such as Claude Chabrol, Philippe de Broca, and Robert Siodmak. Hladnik's early-'60s features, Ples v dežju (Dance in the Rain) (1961) and Peščeni grad/Sand Castle (1962), influenced the course of Yugoslav cinema, through integrating influences from the nouvelle vague into it. Hladnik has an obsession with eroticism. He made many films dealing openly with sex and his Erotikon [de] (1963), with its openly sensual approach to taboo sexual relationships, not only triggered angry protests in the press, but it also led to it being banned in some Yugoslav republics. Western European critics and public however, supported Hladnik enough for him to find foreign backing for his even more provocative feature film on sexuality, Maškarada/Masquerade (1971). Hladnik died in Ljubljana in 2006.

Known For

Director

1988
1979
Kill Me Softly

as Director

1976
White Grass

as Director

1974
The Revolution

as Director

1972
The Lion Is Coming

as Director

1971
Masquerade

as Director

1968
1963
1962
A Sand Castle

as Director

1961
1958
Fantastic Ballad

as Director

Actor

2000
Porno Movie

as The Customer

1992
Enfant terrible

as Himself

1988
1978
Occupation in 26 Pictures

as Njemački časnik s fotoaparatom

Writer

1974
The Revolution

as Writer

1968
1963
1962
A Sand Castle

as Writer

1961