HFS: Authors

He was born in 1950, in Zagreb, where he attended primary school and gymnasium, and studied at the Electro technical Faculty and College for Foreign Trade. 1971. In 1971 he graduated as a programmer of mainframe computer systems. He has become a member of the Croatian Literary Translators Association in 1976, a member of the Croatian Cinematographers Association, a member of the Croatian Artists Association in 1981, and a member of the Croatian Film Directors Association in 2001. 2001. He was one of the founders and first president of the Croatian Producers Association in 2001. From 2004 he has been working as a guest lecturer at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, production department.
From 1975, he has translated 22 novels from English and German, a number of expert books and a number of films. Since 1976 he has been working as screenplay writer, director’s assistant, assistant director and director and producer in coo productions and domestic films and TV shows, and a greater number of commissioned films and videos.
He lives in Zagreb, he is a widower with two children, cameraman Borna and Blanka, the costume designer.

FILMOGRAFIJA

Stealing Heaven, 1987, assistant director
Director: Clive Donner
Cast: Derek de Lint, Kim Thompson
Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern, 1990, assistant director, director of the second cast
Director: Tom Stoppard
Cast: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss
No Cause for Alarm, 1989, assistant director, air scenes coordinator
Director: Francis Shields
Cast: Michael Nouri, Darlene Fluegel
Death of a Schoolboy, 1989, assistant director
Director: Peter Patzak
Cast: Reuben Pillsbury, Christopher Chaplin, Alexis Arquette
Dirty Dozen, the Series, 1988, assistant director, action scene director
Directors: Kevin Connor, Doug Hickox
Cast: Ben Murphy, Jon Tenney, John D’Aquino
If it’s Tuesday it must be Belgium, 1987, assistant director
Director: Bob Sweeney
Cast: Claude Akins, Courtney Cox, Kiel Martin
Goetz von Berlichingen, 1985, assistant director, action scene director
Director: Dr. Harald Reinl
Cast: Reimund Harmsdorf, Ulli Bauer
Dirty Dozen, The Deadly Mission, 1986, assistant director
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Cast: Telly Savallas, Ernest Borgnine, Bo Svenson
Race for the Bomb, 1986, assistant director
Director: Jean-François Delassus, Alan Eastman
Cast: Miki Manojlović, Jean-Paul Muell, Mauri Chaykin
Force Ten from Navarone, 1978, director’s assistant
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Harrison Ford, Robert Shaw, Edward Fox, Franco Nero
The Lorry (Black Sun), 1977, director’s assistant
Director: Arne Mattson
Cast: Helmut Griem, Zvonimir Črnko, John Hamill
Egon Schiele, 1981, director’s assistant
Director: Herbert Vesely
Cast: Jane Birkin, Mathieu Carriere
High Road to China, 1980, director’s assistant, director of the second cast
Director: Brain Huttan
Cast: Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong
The Aviator, 1982, assistant director
Director: George Miller
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Rosanne Arquette
Secret of the Black Dragon, TV show six episodes, 1983, assistant director
Director: Sigi Rothemund
Cast: Julian Glover, Charles Brauer, Oleg Vidov, Relja Bašić
Transylvania 6500, 1984, assistant director, director of the second cast
Director: Rudy de Luca
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Gena Davis, Jo Bologna, Michael Richards
Destiny, 1986, assistant director, director of the second cast
Director: Gregory Nava
Cast: William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Francisco Rabal
Appuntamento a Budapest, 1987, assistant director
Director: Franco Rossi
Garibaldi, 1988, assistant director
Director: Gigi Magni
Cast: Franco Nero, Relja Bašić
Flyers of the Great Sky, 1977, director’s assistant
Director: Marijan Arhanić
Cast: Boris Dvornik, Zvonko Lepetić, Milan Štrljić
Man who has to be Murdered, 1978, director’s assistant
Director: Veljko Bulajić
Cast: Zvonimir Črnko, Charles Millot
The Return, 1979, director’s assistant
Director: Antun Vrdoljak
Cast: Boris Dvornik, Fabijan Šovagović
The Journalist, 1979, director’s assistant
Director: Fadil Hadžić
Cast: Rade Šerbedžija, Fabijan Šovagović, Milena Zupančić
Crazy House, 1980, director’s assistant
Director: Ljubiša Ristić
Cast: Janez Bermez, Ratko Buljan, Perica Martinović
High Voltage, 1982, director’s assistant
Director: Veljko Bulajić
Cast: Milan Štrljić, Božidarka Frajt
The Great Transport, 1982, postproduction coordinator, dubbing director
Director: Veljko Bulajić
Cast: Steve Railsback, Robert Vaughn
AntiCasanova, 1986, assistant director
Director: Vladimir Tadej
Cast: Ljubiša Samardžić, Milena Dravić
Convicted, 1988, assistant director
Director: Zoran Tadić
Cast: Rade Šerbedžija, Mira Furlan
Hockey players, TV show, 1989, assistant director
Director: Vladimir Tadej
Cast: Boris Dvornik, Zdravka Krstulović, Martin Sagner
Blooksuckers, 1989, assistant director
Director: Dean Šorak
Cast: Ksenija Marinković, Danilo Lazović, Maro Martinović
Stela, 1990, assistant director
Director: Petar Krelja
Cast: Anja Šovagović-Despot, Žarko Laušević, Mira Furlan
Transatlantic, 1997, assistant director
Director: Mladen Juran
Cast: Filip Šovagović, Alen Liverić
The Tranquilizer Gun, 1998, assistant director
Director: Hrvoje Hribar
Cast: Rene Medvešek, Alma Prica, Filip Šovagović
Mercy of the Sea, 2002, assistant director
Director: Jakov Sedlar
Cast: Renee Estevez, Martin Sheen

Video clips:

Director

Kia Sephia, 2 versions
Kia Croatia
Tobacco Factory Zagreb
Križevčanka, meat factory Križevci
Weekly magazine Stamp, 2 versions
Naprijed, Zagreb – bibliotheque Stribor, 12 versions
Gaj, Wood-processing industry Slatina, 2 versions
Maraska, Zadar, 2 versions
MIF – children and mines, 2 versions
MIF children and guns
Leukemia and Limphoma Association
Unikomerc, 4 versions
Dona juices, 3 versions
KIM, Milk processing industry Karlovac
Naronaplast, Metković
Car reseller Kovačević, 2 versions
Ana-Marija coffee
INA Millenium, 4 versions

Producer

Erste Steirmärkische Bank, production Mican film, Vienna, 2 clips

Specified-purpose films:

Director

Istra Terra Magica - 60 minutes – Istria tourist office, Ministry of Tourism of the RC
GAJ – 30 minutes – Wood-processing industry Slatina
Križevčanka – 30 minutes – Meat factory Križevci
Naronaplast – 15 minutes – OTM
Bone marrow transplantation – 15 minutes – Leukemia and Lymphoma Association
Closing Door – 30 minutes – CTV, Leukemia and Lymphoma Association
Coupon privatisation – 6 specified-purpose educational films – Ministry of Privatization – GRAL film
Agrokor – The Story of Success – 7 minutes – Agrokor, Interfilm
Ledo – 6 minutes – Interfilm
Jamnica – 7 minutes – Interfilm
LDC Logistic-distribution center Rijeka – 5 minutes – Agrokor, Interfilm
Zvijezda – 5 minutes – Agrokor, Interfilm
Down Croatia – 7 minutes – Agrokor, Interfilm
Sarajevski Kiseljak – 5 minutes – Agrokor, Interfilm

Producer

Beyond the Blue, 1999, documentary, GRAL film (director: Boris Watz)
In Broad Daylight, 1998, documentary, Lakehurst productions, GRAL film (režiser: Ljubo Lasić)
Buzzing in the Head, motion picture, Gral film-Zagreb, Novi Val-Ljubljana, 2002 (director: Andrej Košak)
Ledina, motion picture, GRAL film-Zagreb, Cinema design-Beograd, 2002 (director: Ljubiša Samardžić)