Živorad "Žika" Mitrović ( sr-Cyrl, Жика Митровић; 3 September 1921 – 29 January 2005) was a
Serbian and
Yugoslav film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
and
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
. He started his career as a comics artist.
Mitrovic directed 20
feature films between 1955 and 1986. His 1974 film ''
The Republic of Užice
''Guns of War'' ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=/, Užička republika, Ужичка република, Republic of Užice) is a 1974 Yugoslav film directed by Žika Mitrović. It is one of the most notable examples of partisan film, a Yugoslav subgenre ...
'' was entered into the
9th Moscow International Film Festival
The 9th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 10 to 23 July 1975. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Polish film '' The Promised Land'' directed by Andrzej Wajda, the Soviet-Japanese film ''Dersu Uzala'' directed by Akira Kurosawa a ...
where it won a Diploma.
Filmography
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1921 births
2005 deaths
Film people from Belgrade
Serbian film directors
Golden Arena for Best Director winners
Serbian screenwriters
Male screenwriters
Yugoslav film directors
20th-century screenwriters
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