Vladimir Pogačić (23 September 1919 – 13 September 1999) was a Yugoslav film director.

Education

Before World War II, Pogačić studied art history at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. In the late 1940s he enrolled at the Belgrade Film School. Between 1945 and 1947 he worked as a screenwriter and director at Radio Zagreb (present-day Croatian Radio) and as a director at the Zagreb student theatre, where he directed a local production of '' Señora Carrar's Rifles'' in 1947, the first-ever work by

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staged in Yugoslavia).

Filmmaking career

Pogačić's filmmaking career began in 1949 with ''The Factory Story'' ( Serbo-Croat: ''Priča o fabrici''), after which he went on to become one of the most prolific Yugoslav film authors of the 1950s. He directed several landmark films of

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: ''The Last Day'' (''Poslednji dan'', 1951), which is considered the first Yugoslav

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; ''Legends of Anika'' (''Anikina vremena'', 1954), a film based on

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's story, which was the first Yugoslav film distributed in the

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, and ''Big and Small'' (''Veliki i mali'', 1956), which was the first Yugoslav

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to win an international prize, as it won Pogačić the Best Director award at the 1957

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. In addition, his 1953 film ''

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'' was screened at the

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in the international competition program. From 1954 to 1981, Pogačić was the director of the

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. He also served as president of the

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(FIAF) and vice-president of the International Council for Film Television and Audiovisual Communication (IFTC), the film division of

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, from 1972 to 1979. Pogačić later worked as a lecturer at the

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Faculty of Drama Arts and was editor of the influential Yugoslav film magazine ''Film danas'' ( English: ''Film Today'').

Filmography

*''The Factory Story'' (''Priča o fabrici'', 1949) *''The Last Day'' (''Poslednji dan'', 1951) *''

'' (''Nevjera'', 1953; based on a play by

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) *''

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'' (''Anikina vremena'', 1954; based on a story by

) *''Big and Small'' (''Veliki i mali'', 1956) *'' Saturday Night'' (''Subotom uveče'', 1957) *''Alone'' (''Sam'', 1959) *''

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'' (''Pukotina raja'', 1959) *'' Carolina'' (''Karolina Riječka'', 1961; based on a

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) *'' The Man in the Photograph'' (''Čovjek s fotografije'', 1963)

References

External links

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Vladimir Pogačić biography
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Vladimir Pogačić biography
at Film.hr {{DEFAULTSORT:Pogacic, Vladimir Croatian film directors Serbian film directors People from Karlovac Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni 1919 births 1999 deaths Yugoslav film directors