Ognjen Sviličić (born 1971 in

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) is a screenwriter and film director, based in Berlin noted for his critically acclaimed 2007 films

Sorry For Kung Fu ''Sorry for Kung Fu'' ( hr, Oprosti za kung fu) is a 2004 Croatian drama film directed by Ognjen Sviličić. The plot follows a pregnant unmarried woman played by Daria Lorenci, who returns to her village in Croatia after living in Germany du ...

, '' Armin and

These Are the Rules ''These Are the Rules'' ( hr, Takva su pravila) is a Croatian 2014 drama film written and directed by Ognjen Sviličić. Plot Maja (Jasna Žalica), Ivo ( Emir Hadžihafizbegović) and their 18-year-old son Tomica (Hrvoje Vladisavljević) are an o ...

Career

Sviličić was born 1971 in Split, in a family of

journalists A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

. He started his career with a series of TV features which had a mixed critical response. At the beginning of the 2000s, Sviličić often worked as a co-writer or

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on films by other directors ('' What Iva Recorded'' by

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, ''

The Melon Route ''The Melon Route'' ( hr, Put lubenica) is a Croatian drama film directed by Branko Schmidt. It was released in 2006. Cast * Krešimir Mikić - Mirko * Sun Mei - Chinese girl * Leon Lučev - Seki * Armin Omerović - Meho * Emir Hadžihafizbe ...

'' by

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). Many of the directors with whom he worked made significantly better films than usual while co-working with Sviličić. Sviličić was therefore sometimes nicknamed " Mabuse of Croatian cinema", who "resurrects irectorsfrom the dead". Sviličić's first international success was comedy ''

Sorry for Kung Fu ''Sorry for Kung Fu'' ( hr, Oprosti za kung fu) is a 2004 Croatian drama film directed by Ognjen Sviličić. The plot follows a pregnant unmarried woman played by Daria Lorenci, who returns to her village in Croatia after living in Germany du ...

'', in which young woman from the

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n highlands comes back from Germany to her native village. Girl ( Daria Lorenci) is pregnant, but does not reveal the identity of the father. Their old-fashioned parents try to find a husband for her, but she stubbornly refuses. The film was screened in a Forum program of Berlinale. Sviličić's next film, '' Armin'', was also screened in Berlin Forum. That is the story about a teenage musician and his simpleton father who travel from Bosnia to Zagreb to audition for a German coproduction film. Son is skeptical and bitter, and father is naive and overtly enthusiastic for anything that is "Western" and "European". His next internationally recognised film was

, premiered on

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, Orrizonti section where it won the award for the best actor. Sviličić is continually working as a script writer, he wrote the script for "The Father" together with director

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(Premiere Berlinale 2020, Panorama audience award). He was working as a script consultant for many European script development platforms like First Film First, EAVE or Nipkow Program Sviličić signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the

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and

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.Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language
official website, retrieved on 2021-01-06.

Filmography

* ''

Wish I Were a Shark ''Wish I Were a Shark'' (''Da mi je biti morski pas'') is a 1999 Croatian film written and directed by Ognjen Sviličić Ognjen Sviličić (born 1971 in Split) is a screenwriter and film director, based in Berlin noted for his critically ac ...

'' ''(Da mi je biti morski pas)'' (1999) - writer and director * ''

'' ''(Oprosti za kung fu)'' (2004) - writer and director * '' What Iva Recorded'' ''(Što je Iva snimila 21. listopada 2003.)'' (2005) - writer * ''

'' ''(Put lubenica)'' (2006) - writer * '' Armin'' (2007) - writer and director * ''

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'' (2009) - writer * ''

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'' (2010) - writer and director * ''

'' (2014) - writer and director * ''

We Will Be the World Champions ''We Will Be the World Champions'' ( sr, Бићемо прваци света, Bićemo prvaci sveta) is a 2015 Serbian Sports film, sports drama film directed by Darko Bajić. It was one of six films shortlisted by Serbia to be their submission ...

'' (2015) - writer * '' The Voice'' (2019) - writer and director * ''

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'' (2020) - writer

References

External links

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Ognjen Sviličić at film.hr

Ognjen Sviličić at hrfilm.hr
Croatian film directors Croatian screenwriters Living people 1971 births Film people from Split, Croatia Golden Arena winners Vladimir Nazor Award winners Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language {{Croatia-film-director-stub