As Director
Boško Buha
1978
6.5
Branko Bauer
Directing
Birth Date
February 18, 1921
Place of Birth
Dubrovnik, Croatia, Yugoslavia
Date of Death
April 11, 2002
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.
Complete Filmography
As Director, As Writer
The Farm in the Small Marsh
1976
7.0
As Director, As Writer
Wintering in Jakobsfeld
1975
8.0
As Director, As Writer
Nikoletina Bursac
1964
6.0
As Director
Face to Face
1963
6.3
As Director, As Writer
Superfluous
1962
5.9
As Director
Only People
1957
5.2
As Director, As Writer
Don't Look Back, My Son
1956
6.8
As Director
Millions on the Island
1955
7.0
As Director, As Writer
The Grey Seagull
1953
5.0