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Branko Bauer

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Directed movies: 8Directed series: 2All crew credits: 15

TMDB ID: 1256064

IMDb ID: nm0061763

Known for: Directing

Born: February 18, 1921

Died: April 11, 2002

Age: 81

Place of birth: Dubrovnik, Croatia, Yugoslavia

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1953 - 1980

Years active: 28

Wikidata: Q1257990

Also known as

Бранко Бауэр

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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.

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