France Štiglic

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France Štiglic (born November 12, 1919 in Kranj ; † May 4, 1993 in Ljubljana , Slovenia ) was a Yugoslav film director .

Live and act

Štiglic came as the tenth of eleven children of the officer France Štiglic and his wife Marija, b. Strmec, born in Kranj . After attending schools in his hometown, he began to study law at the University of Ljubljana in 1939 , which he dropped out of in the same year. Instead he took acting lessons, attended a conservatory in Ljubljana and the Milan Skrbinšek drama school, and from October 1939 to April 1941 he played at the youth theater. In the further course of the Second World War he worked as a journalist and fought as a partisan under the name "Tugo". After the war he first appeared as a theater actor, wrote scripts and made documentaries. His short documentary Mladina gradi was the first Yugoslav film to receive an international award, the Bronze Lion of San Marco .

In 1948, Štiglic directed his first feature film, Na svoji zemlji ( on their own land ). The film was produced by the Ljubljana-based company Triglav film. It is about the inhabitants of a Slovenian mountain village during the fighting between partisans and Italian occupiers in World War II. Like many films of this time, he shows strong patriotic and nationalistic tendencies, emphasizes the importance of a new, independent state of Yugoslavia and pays homage to Tito . However, critics praised its richer film language and greater plausibility of the settings and the psychological milieu in contrast to other contemporary war films.

The theme of war dominates the work of Štiglic. Among other things, he directed the war drama The Valley of Peace with John Kitzmiller in the lead role. He plays an American aviator who crashes over Slovenia in World War II and meets a group of children who are seeking refuge from the dangers of war in a valley. For this role, Kitzmiller received an award in the category of best actor at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1957 .

Štiglic's best-known film, The Ninth Circle (1960), deals with the persecution of the Jews in Croatia using the example of a Jewish girl who, fearful of persecution, entered into a fictitious marriage with a student in Zagreb during World War II and falls in love, but is then deported to a concentration camp becomes. In 1961 , The Ninth Circle was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Foreign Language Film .

His films The Valley of Peace and The Ninth Circle brought Štiglic international recognition as one of the most important contemporary directors in Yugoslavia. For many years he was the chairman of the Association of Slovenian Filmmakers and from 1953 to 1967 he was a member of the Education and Culture Assembly ( Prosvetno-kulturni zbor ) of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia . Štiglic lived mainly in Ljubljana and taught there regularly at the Academy for Theater, Radio, Film and Television . In 1973 he became professor and in 1976 dean of the academy, and in 1981 he retired.

Štiglic died in Ljubljana in 1993. He left a son, Tugo Štiglic (* 1946), who also works as a director.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1946: Vojni zlocinci bodo kaznovani (documentary short film)
  • 1946: Mladina gradi (documentary short film)
  • 1948: Na svoji zemlji
  • 1951: Trst
  • 1952: Svet na kajzarju
  • 1953: Slovo od Borisa Kidrica (documentary short film)
  • 1955: Volca noc
  • 1956: The Valley of Peace ( Dolina miru )
  • 1959: Viza na zloto
  • 1960: The ninth circle ( Deveti krug )
  • 1961: Balada o trobenti in oblaku
  • 1962: A wonderful day ( Tistega lepega dne )
  • 1964: Don't cry, Peter ( Ne joci, Peter )
  • 1966: Amandus
  • 1969: Bratovscina Sinjega galeba (TV series)
  • 1972: SLO v Beli Krajini (Documentary)
  • 1973: Kamnik
  • 1973: Pastirci
  • 1975: The House in the Moor ( Povest o dobrih ljudeh )
  • 1978: Spring storms ( Praznovanje pomladi )
  • 1983: Strici so mi povedali (TV series)
  • 1984: Veselo gostivanje

Web links

Commons : France Štiglic  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ŠTIGLIC, France In: Biografski leksikon Gorenjci. Kranj City Library. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
  2. ^ A b Daniel J. Goulding: On Their Own Ground In: Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2002, ISBN 0-253-21582-X , p. 21.
  3. ↑ Dolina miru festival-cannes.com. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
  4. ^ The 33rd Academy Awards 1961 oscars.org. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ Stiglic, France In: Georges Sadoul, Peter Morris Dictionary of Filmmakers. University of California Press, Berkeley 1972, ISBN 0-520-02151-7 , p. 241.
  6. ↑ Štiglic, Francè In: Slovenski biografski leksikon. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
  7. ↑ Štiglic, France In: Kdo je kdo za Slovence. Fago, Ljubljana 1993.
  8. ↑ Štiglic, France In: Dušan Voglar, Alenka Dermastia (ed.): Enciklopedija Slovenije. Volume 13, Mladinska Knjiga, Ljubljana 1999, ISBN 86-11-15364-2 , p. 141.
personal data
SURNAME Štiglic, France
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav film director
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Kranj
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1993
Place of death Ljubljana , Slovenia