Branko Bauer
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.
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Films (16)
Boshko Buha
1978 · Director
The Farm in the Small Marsh
1976 · Writer, Director
Wintering in Jakobsfeld
1975 · Director, Writer
The Fourth Companion
1967 · Director, Writer
To Come and Stay
1965 · Director
Nikoletina Bursac
1964 · Writer, Director
Face to Face
1963 · Director
Superfluous
1962 · Director, Writer
Martin in the Clouds
1961 · Director, Adaptation
Three Girls Named Ana
1959 · Director, Dialogue
Only People
1957 · Director
Don't Look Back, My Son
1956 · Writer, Director
Millions on the Island
1955 · Director
First Revue of Domestic Yugoslav cinema in Yugoslavia
1954 · Director
The Dream of the Little Ballerina
1954 · Writer, Director
The Grey Seagull
1953 · Writer, Director
