Vladimir Pogačić

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Vladimir Pogačić
Born(1919-09-23)23 September 1919
Karlovac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died13 September 1999(1999-09-13) (aged 79)
Belgrade, Serbia
OccupationDirector, screenwriter
Years active1949–1963

Vladimir Pogačić (23 September 1919 – 13 September 1999) was a Yugoslav film director.

Education[]

Before World War II, Pogačić studied art history at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. In the late 1940s he enrolled at the Belgrade Film School.[1]

Between 1945 and 1947 he worked as a screenwriter and director at Radio Zagreb (present-day Croatian Radio) and as a director at the Zagreb student theatre, where he directed a local production of Señora Carrar's Rifles in 1947, the first-ever work by Bertolt Brecht staged in Yugoslavia).[2]

Filmmaking career[]

Pogačić's filmmaking career began in 1949 with The Factory Story (Serbo-Croat: Priča o fabrici), after which he went on to become one of the most prolific Yugoslav film authors of the 1950s. He directed several landmark films of Yugoslav cinema: The Last Day (Poslednji dan, 1951), which is considered the first Yugoslav spy film; Legends of Anika (Anikina vremena, 1954), a film based on Ivo Andrić's story, which was the first Yugoslav film distributed in the United States,[2] and Big and Small (Veliki i mali, 1956), which was the first Yugoslav feature film to win an international prize, as it won Pogačić the Best Director award at the 1957 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.[1] In addition, his 1953 film Perfidy was screened at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival in the international competition program.[3]

From 1954 to 1981, Pogačić was the director of the Yugoslav Film Archive. He also served as president of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and vice-president of the International Council for Film Television and Audiovisual Communication (IFTC), the film division of UNESCO, from 1972 to 1979.[1] Pogačić later worked as a lecturer at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Drama Arts and was editor of the influential Yugoslav film magazine Film danas (English: Film Today).[2]

Filmography[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Vladimir Pogačić". Baza HR kinematografije (in Croatian). Filmski-Programi.hr. Retrieved 22 May 2010.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Vladimir Pogačić" (in Croatian). Film.hr. Retrieved 25 May 2010.
  3. ^ "Vladimir Pogacic - Awards". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 24 May 2010.

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