Krsto Papić

Biography

Krsto Papić (7 December 1933 – 7 February 2013) was a Croatian screenwriter and film director whose career spanned several decades. Papić was born in Vučji Do, near Nikšić in today's Montenegro. His early feature films and documentaries were part of Croatian and Yugoslav New Cinema, and often regarded as Croatian echo of the Black Wave artistic movement that mostly took place within Serbia. Additionally, Papić himself was connected to the Croatian Spring political movement during the early 1970s. He was the member of the Zagreb filmophile circle influenced by the French New Wave, so-called "Hitchcockians", along with film-makers and critics Ante Peterlić, Zoran Tadić, Branko Ivanda, Petar Krelja and centered around film critics Vladimir Vuković and Hrvoje Lisinski. Papić's two best-known early feature films, Lisice and Predstava Hamleta u Mrduši Donjoj, were often attacked from the government sources. Lisice did not get permission to represent Yugoslavia in the Cannes Film Festival, so it entered Quinzaine program in 1970.Izbavitelj was heavily criticised by Stipe Šuvar, who alluded that film's allegory about Fascism actually also refers to the Communism. Papić's subsequent featu…

Directed

1. The Secret of Nikola Tesla (1980) — Director
2. The Rat Savior (1976) — Director
3. A Performance of Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1974) — Director
4. When My Knife Strikes You (1968) — Director
5. The Hub (1969) — Director
6. Handcuffs (1970) — Director
7. A Croatian Story (1991) — Director
8. Infection (2003) — Director
9. My Uncle's Legacy (1988) — Director
10. When the Dead Start Singing (1998) — Director
11. The Key (1965) — Director
12. Let Our Voices Be Heard Too (1971) — Director
13. Illusion (1967) — Director
14. Hallo, Munich (1968) — Director
15. Flower Square (2013) — Director
16. Special Trains (1972) — Director
17. A Little Journey (1975) — Director
18. A Little Village Performance (1971) — Director
19. Charter Flight Number... (1975) — Director
20. Unemployed Woman With Children (1986) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Hub (1969) — Himself
2. The Third Key (1983) — Franjo
3. At the Station in Pula (2001) — Himself
4. The Other Side of Welles (2005) — Self
5. Pula Confidential (2003) — Himself