Ivo Škrabalo (; 19 February 1934 – 18 September 2011) was a

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, and member of parliament. Škrabalo was born in

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, where he finished elementary and high school before moving to

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in 1952. He enrolled at the

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's Faculty of Law and earned an MSc in

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, with a doctoral thesis on the creation of

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. He also studied at the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art and graduated from its film directing department. Škrabalo then worked as a

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at Zagreb-based film studios

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(1958–1962) and

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(1964–1967) and was later hired as an advisor at

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in the late 1960s. He directed a number of

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s and wrote or co-wrote several screenplays for feature films including the 1970 comedy classic ''

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''. Škrabalo was also a prolific film critic and he made significant contributions to film publications published by the

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. He also authored four books about the history of

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, including his seminal work ''101 Years of Film in Croatia 1896–1997'' published in 1998. He also gained some fame for quirky translations of titles of imported pornographic films which entered nationwide distribution in Yugoslavia in the 1980s. In the early 1990s Škrabalo became involved in politics. Between 1991 and 1992 he briefly a senior post in the

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in the

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led by Prime Minister

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, and was elected to the

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twice – from 1992 to 1995 he served as member of the

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(HSLS) and from 2000 to 2003 as member of its short-lived splinter party

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which later merged into the present-day

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. He was one of the mayors proposed by the opposition and rejected by President

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during the 1995–1997 Zagreb crisis. Scientist and diplomat

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was his older brother.

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Umro Ivo Škrabalo, istaknuti filmski kritičar, scenarist i saborski zastupnik
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