
Known for
Directing
Born
February 18, 1921
Birthplace
Dubrovnik, Croatia, Yugoslavia
Died
April 11, 2002 (aged 81)
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...
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1975
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1965
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1964
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1963
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1961
Director, Adaptation
1959
Director, Dialogue
1957
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1956
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1955
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1954
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1953
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