Branko Bauer

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.

Directed

1. Boshko Buha (1978) — Director
2. Don't Look Back, My Son (1956) — Director
3. The Farm in the Small Marsh (1976) — Director
4. Superfluous (1962) — Director
5. Only People (1957) — Director
6. Face to Face (1963) — Director
7. Martin in the Clouds (1961) — Director
8. To Come and Stay (1965) — Director
9. Three Girls Named Ana (1959) — Director
10. Millions on the Island (1955) — Director
11. The Grey Seagull (1953) — Director
12. Wintering in Jakobsfeld (1975) — Director
13. Nikoletina Bursac (1964) — Director
14. The Fourth Companion (1967) — Director
15. The Dream of the Little Ballerina (1954) — Director
16. First Revue of Domestic Yugoslav cinema in Yugoslavia (1954) — Director
17. Bosko Buha (1980) — Director
18. Salas u malom ritu (1976) — Director