Zdravko Šotra

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Zdravko Šotra
Здравко Шотра
Born	(1933-02-13) 13 February 1933 (age 88) Kozice, Littoral Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Occupation	Film & television director
Years active	1950s–present
Spouse(s)	Nikica Marinović ​ (m. 1970)​

Zdravko Šotra (Serbian Cyrillic: Здравко Шотра; born 13 February 1933) is a Serbian film and television director^[1] and screenwriter. And a grandfather of Andrea Šotra.

Early life[]

Šotra was born in the village of Kozice, near Stolac, at the time part of the Littoral Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern Bosnia and Herzegovina), into an ethnic Serb family.

Career[]

Television[]

Šotra started out during the early 1960s as a television director employed by TV Belgrade.

Feature films[]

Already a prominent TV director, 46-year-old Šotra made his feature film debut in 1979 with Osvajanje slobode, a post-World War II story written by Gordan Mihić about a cultural and infrastructural rebuilding effort in the small Serbian town.

He came back two years later with a folksy comedy Šesta brzina starring Zoran Radmilović. The following year, 1982, Šotra revisited the post-war theme with Idemo dalje, starring Dragan Nikolić as a World War II young Partisan transitioning into his new life as a schoolteacher as the war is coming to an end.

In 1983 came the spectacular World War II drama Igmanski marš, a high-budget project of the partisan film genre.

Personal life[]

In the late 1970s, Šotra married the former beauty queen , fourteen years his junior. Together they have a son Marko who is a television director employed at the Serbian state television.

He is a fan of Red Star Belgrade.^[2]

Filmography[]

Films

• Osvajanje slobode (1979)
• Šesta brzina (1981)
• Idemo dalje (1982)
• Igmanski marš (1983)
• Držanje za vazduh (1985)
• Braća po materi (1988)
• Boj na Kosovu (1989)
• Dnevnik uvreda 1993 (1994)
• Barking at the Stars (1998)
• Zona Zamfirova (2002)
• Pljačka Trećeg rajha (2004)
• Ivkova slava (2005)
• Šešir profesora Vujića (2012) (Professor Kosta Vujic's Hat)
• Santa Maria della Salute (2016)

Series

• Više od igre (1976)
• Gde cveta limun žut (2006)
• Ranjeni orao (2008-2009)
• Greh njene majke (2009-2010)
• Nepobedivo srce (2011-2012)
• Alexander of Yugoslavia (2021)^[3]

References[]

External links[]

Zdravko Šotra, Interview, published in Politika Newspapers, author: Saša Milivojev

Zdravko Šotra at IMDb