Ante Peterlić (18 May 1936 – 12 July 2007) was a Croatian screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his film ''

Accidental Life ''Accidental Life'' (''Slučajni život'') is a 1969 Yugoslav drama film directed by Ante Peterlić, starring Dragutin Klobučar, Ivo Serdar, Ana Karić and Zvonimir Rogoz. An existential study of ordinary lives led by two alienated urban whit ...

'', his debut feature film. Peterlić was a prominent young film critic, and a professor of

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at the

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. In the

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, he directed his first short TV drama, and was active as an assistant director in several feature films and documentaries, working also as a

script doctor A script doctor is a writer or playwright hired by a film, television, or theatre production company to rewrite an existing script or improve specific aspects of it, including structure, characterization, dialogue, pacing, themes, and other elemen ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Peterlic, Ante 1936 births 2007 deaths People from Kaštela Croatian film directors Academic staff of the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Croatian film critics Film theorists