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Branko Lustig (2009)

Branko Lustig (born June 10, 1932 in Osijek , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; died November 14, 2019 in Zagreb ) was a Yugoslav or Croatian film producer and actor .

Life

Branko Lustig, who came from a Jewish family, was interned as a child in the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps during the Second World War .

He began his career in the film business as an assistant director at the Zagreb-based film production company Jadran Film . In 1956 he worked as a production manager on Ne okreći se sine (English title Don't Look Back Son ), a notable Second World War drama. In the 1980s, Lustig worked on the miniseries The Firestorm (1983) and the sequel Firestorm and Ashes (1988). In the same year he moved to the United States.

He became the first Croat to win an Oscar in 1994 when he was awarded the prize for Best Picture as the producer of Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List . He was also awarded a Golden Globe for the same film . Lustig also took on the role of head waiter in the Kraków nightclub in the first scene of the film.

In 2001 he received his second Oscar and the Golden Globe for Gladiator .

Branko Lustig is the only Croatian who has been awarded an Oscar twice. Lustig has worked as a producer or senior producer on films such as Project: Peacemaker (1997), Hannibal (2001) and Black Hawk Down (2001).

The Croatian President Franjo Tuđman awarded him the "Order of Duke Trpimir" for his work. In 2008 he was the first filmmaker to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Zagreb . In the same year, he founded the production company Six Point Films with Phil Blazer in Los Angeles "to produce deeper and thought-provoking films." Lustig has been Honorary President of the Zagreb Jewish Film Festival since 2008 .

In November 2009 he was honored by the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust as part of the second "Annual Dinner" in Beverly Hills with memorial service founder Andreas Maislinger for his commitment to the memory of the Holocaust. The laudatory speech was given by Holocaust survivor Renée Firestone.

Filmography (selection)

Executive Producer

Associate Producer

  • 1983: The Winds of War
  • 1988: Firestorm and Ashes (War and Remembrance)

Producer

actor

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 233.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hollywoodska večer za Branka Lustiga ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Croatian). Vjesnik, April 20, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vjesnik.hr
personal data
SURNAME Funny, Branko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav-American film producer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Osijek
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2019
Place of death Zagreb