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Lordan Zafranović
Lordan Zafranović (born 11 February 1944) is a Czech-Croatian film director. He was a major figure of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Early life Lordan Zafranović was born in 1944 in Maslinica, island of Šolta, Dalmatia, during the fascist occupation of Yugoslavia. He spent the first two years of his life in the El Shatt refugee camp together with his mother Marija and his older brother Zdenko. After the war, the family reunited with father Ivan and moved to Split, where younger brother Andrija was born. He graduated in ship-engineering from the Split Marine School in 1962 and continued with studies in literature and fine arts at the Split Pedagogical Academy (later University of Split) from 1963 to 1967. Work Zafranović belongs to the Prague wave (sometimes also called Praška filmska škola), a generation of acclaimed Yugoslav directors who had studied at the Prague Film School ( FAMU) around 1968. His peers were Rajko Grlić, Goran Marković, Goran Paskaljević, Srđan Karanovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maslinica
Maslinica ( it, Porto Olivetto) is a port village on the island of Šolta in Croatia in the Split-Dalmatia County. It is connected by the D111 (Croatia), D111 highway. Maslinica has 208 inhabitants. The center of the village, the westernmost town of the island, the castle Martinis Marchi, now a luxury hotel with marina for about 60 boats. During the time of the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire the villages of Šolta still have their Italian language, Italian names as well as ''Porto Olivetto''. In the 19th century the best wine of the island came from Maslinica. The best qualities of national importance were created in the 1870s and 80s by Pietro degli Alberti from Porto Oliveto di Solta. At the 1873 Vienna World's Fair, Vienna World Fair in 1873 he received an honorary prize. At the Triester exhibition in 1882 he received a gold medal. Image gallery Image:Šolta Maslinica Hrvatska Hafen 2012 d.jpg, Southern bay Image:Šolta Maslinica Hrvatska Hafen 2012 g.jpg, New Marin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Prix Martovski Belgrade
Grand may refer to: People with the name * Grand (surname) * Grand L. Bush (born 1955), American actor * Grand Mixer DXT, American turntablist * Grand Puba (born 1966), American rapper Places * Grand, Oklahoma * Grand, Vosges, village and commune in France with Gallo-Roman amphitheatre * Grand Concourse (other), several places * Grand County (other), several places * Grand Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone * Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway, a parkway system in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States * Le Grand, California, census-designated place * Grand Staircase, a place in the US. Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Grand'' (Erin McKeown album), 2003 * ''Grand'' (Matt and Kim album), 2009 * ''Grand'' (magazine), a lifestyle magazine related to related to grandparents * ''Grand'' (TV series), American sitcom, 1990 * Grand piano, musical instrument * Grand Production, Serbian record label company * The Grand Tour, a new British automobile show O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goran Paskaljević
Goran Paskaljević ( sr-cyr, Горан Паскаљевић; ; 22 April 1947 – 25 September 2020) was a Serbian and former Yugoslav film director. Biography Born in Belgrade, he was raised by his grandparents in Niš in southern Serbia, following the divorce of his parents. Fourteen years later he returned to Belgrade where he worked with his stepfather at the Yugoslav Film Archive. Paskaljević belonged to a group of Praška filmska škola, several Yugoslav filmmakers who studied abroad and graduated from the prestigious Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). After returning to Yugoslavia, he made some 30 documentaries and 16 feature films which were screened at many international film festivals (such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto and San Sebastian) and met with critical acclaim. The rise of nationalism during the breakup of Yugoslavia forced him to leave his country in 1992. In 1998 he returned to Yugoslavia to make ''Cabaret Balkan'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goran Marković (film Director)
Goran Marković ( sr-cyr, Горан Марковић, ) (born 24 August 1946) is a Serbian film and theatre director, screenwriter, writer, and playwright. He has directed approximately 50 documentaries, 13 feature films, and 3 theatre plays. He has also written five books. Marković is one of the few directors from the former Yugoslavia credited with popularizing Yugoslav films, as well as achieving success domestically and internationally. Career Marković was born in Belgrade to Rade and Olivera Marković, both established Serbian actors. He finished 5th Belgrade Gymnasium prior to attending FAMU at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Marković is the winner of more than 30 Yugoslavian, Serbian, and international film and theatre awards, the most significant of them being two Pula festival "Zlatna arena" awards, an award for the best director at the San Sebastian Film Festival for the film ''Tito and Me'', Grand Prix of Americas at the Montreal World Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajko Grlić
Rajko Grlić (born 2 September 1947) is a Croatian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of film theory at Ohio University and artistic director of the Motovun Film Festival in Motovun, Croatia. Biography Rajko Grlić was born in 1947 in Zagreb, SR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia. His father was Danko Grlić, famous Croatian philosopher. Grlić's (Gerlich) family by father's side came to Zagreb from Schwarzwald, Germany in the 19th century, while his mother Eva ( née Izrael) is from Jewish family of Sarajevo. He graduated from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) at the same time as Emir Kusturica, Serbian film director. During Croatian War of Independence Grlić moved to the USA. In 2017, Grlić has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins. Filmography As director * ''Whichever Way the Ball Bounces'' (''Kud puklo da puklo'', 1974) * ''Bravo Maestro'' (''Bravo maestro'', 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film And TV School Of The Academy Of Performing Arts In Prague
The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague ( cs, Filmová a televizní fakulta Akademie múzických umění v Praze) or FAMU is a film school in Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 1946 as one of three branches of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. It is the fifth oldest film school in the world. The teaching language on most courses at FAMU is Czech, but FAMU also runs certain courses in English. The school has repeatedly been included on lists of the best film schools in the world by ''The Hollywood Reporter''. In the 1960s and 1970s, several young directors from Yugoslavia were FAMU students (Rajko Grlić, Srđan Karanović, Emir Kusturica, Goran Marković, Goran Paskaljević and Lordan Zafranović). All of these directors would become very successful in the following decades, prompting the coinage of the term ''Praška filmska škola'' ("Prague film school"), or ''Praški talas'' ("Prague wave"), which is sometimes considered a prominent subgenre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Praška Filmska škola
The Prague film schoolPraška škola: Pametni filmovi mogu biti napravljeni za široku publiku ( sh, Praška filmska škola, script=Latn, ), also known as the Czech film school ( sh, Češka filmska škola, script=Latn, ) or the Prague waveDejan Dabić: Praška škola ne postoji ( sh, Praški talas, script=Latn, ) was a group of |
El Shatt Refugee Camp
The El Shatt was a complex of World War II refugee camps in the desert of the Sinai peninsula in Egypt, established in early 1944. The region of Dalmatia (in today's modern Croatia, then Yugoslavia) was evacuated by the Allies of World War II, Allies, following the September 1943 Italian surrender and ahead of a Nazi Germany, German invasion. The camp was disbanded after the war ended, in March 1946. Background Fleeing the German offensive in the fall and winter of 1943–1944 and in fear of reprisals, nearly 40,000 civilians escaped to the remote Vis (island), island of Vis. Vis already hosted the allied British army, British forces and had been established as the Headquarters for the Yugoslav Partisans, Partisan army. Scarce of food and unable to ensure their protection, the allies decided to send the evacuated refugees and non-combatant population of the island to southern Italy, first to Bari and then to Taranto. The refugees were mostly from Makarska (around 5800), Korčula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yugoslav Black Wave
Yugoslav Black Wave (also referred to as Black Wave; or sh-Latn-Cyrl, label=none, separator=" / ", Crni talas, Црни талас) is a blanket term for a Yugoslav film movement of the 1960s and early 1970s. Notable directors include Dušan Makavejev, Žika Pavlović, Saša Petrović, Želimir Žilnik, Mika Antić, Lordan Zafranović, Mića Popović and Marko Babac. Their films are known for their non-traditional approach to film making, their dark humor and their critical examination of the Yugoslav society at the time. History In the early 1960s Yugoslavia produced more films than ever before. Exports soared during this period of intense creativity and experimentation. The film makers were linked by a common wish to increase the freedom of artistic expression, and to reform the cinematic language. The filmmakers wanted the right to show the darker side of the human psyche and to openly criticize the policy of the socialist state. This stream gained international attention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lifetime Achievement Award
Lifetime achievement awards are awarded by various organizations, to recognize contributions over the whole of a career, rather than or in addition to single contributions. Such awards, and organizations presenting them, include: A * A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award * Academy Honorary Award * Acharius Medal * ACUM prize * AFI Life Achievement Award * Áillohaš Music Award * American Society of Landscape Architects Medal * Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards * ANR National Award * Asianet Film Awards B * BBC Jazz Awards * BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award * BET Lifetime Achievement Award * BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards * BBC Sports Personality of the Year * BET Awards * ''Billboard'' Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award * Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement * Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music * British Academy Television Awards * British Comedy Awards * Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award * BCAHRB Lifetime Achievement Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celestial City Symphony
Celestial may refer to: Science * Objects or events seen in the sky and the following astronomical terms: ** Astronomical object, a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structure that exists in the observable universe ** Celestia, a 3D astronomy program that allows users to travel through the universe, also known as a celestial body or object ** Celestial coordinate system, a system for mapping positions on the celestial sphere ** Celestial mechanics, the branch of astronomy that deals with the motions of celestial objects ** Celestial navigation, a position-fixing technique that helps sailors cross the oceans ** Celestial pole, the two points in the sky, north and south, where the projection of a planet's axis of rotation intersects its celestial sphere ** Celestial sphere, an imaginary sphere concentric with the Earthall objects in the sky can be thought of as projected upon the celestial sphere ** Celestial spheres, fundamental entities of the cosmological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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