Ante Peterlić (18 May 1936 – 12 July 2007) was a Croatian film scholar, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his film '' Accidental Life'' (, 1969), his debut feature film. Peterlić was a prominent young film critic, and a professor of

film theory Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for und ...

at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in

Zagreb Zagreb ( ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, north of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the ...

. 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

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. First to hold Ph.D. in film studies in Yugoslavia, with prof. Vera Horvat-Pintarić serving as his thesis advisor, Peterlić wrote several books on theory and history of cinema.

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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 Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery