Nedeljko Dragic

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Nedeljko Dragić (born September 13, 1936 in Paklenica near Novska ) is a Croatian animator , cartoonist and comic artist who has lived and worked in Germany since 1990.

Life

Dragić studied law in Zagreb and also turned to cartoon and comic drawing from 1953. His works have appeared in the Večernji list , among others . From 1960 he worked as an animator at the Zagreb Animated Film Studio , where he realized his first animated film as a director in 1965 with Elegija . The film was based on comics that Dragić had previously published, and his animation style also approached the style of a comic.

Dragić first became famous with the more metaphorical Krotitelj divljih konja (1966) and Možda Diogen (1967). The high point of his work as an animation filmmaker was the Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film for Tup Tup (1972). In the 1980s, Dragić's films received less attention, with the exception of a series about the mascot of the 1984 Winter Olympics, Vučko , so that he went to Germany in 1990 and has lived in Munich ever since. Among other things, he worked here as a commercial filmmaker. His lectures at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , which he gave between 1994 and 1995 on the subject of animation, have been published in book form.

In 2009, at the request of the head of Zagreb Film, Vinko Brešan , Dragić began working on the animated short film series Rudijev leksikon . It should include 365 episodes and treats one term per episode, which is explained about the television-loving, single male Rudi. Episodes that appeared included the terms fame , love , dictatorship , philosophy and luck . Dragić had the idea for the series back in the 1970s.

Filmography

  • 1965: Elegija
  • 1967: Striptiz
  • 1967: Možda Diogen
  • 1967: Krotitelj divljih konja
  • 1969: Per Aspera Ad Astra
  • 1969: Idu Dani
  • 1971: Vrata
  • 1973: Man: The Polluter
  • 1973: Tup Tup
  • 1974: Dnevnik
  • 1982: Put k susjedu
  • 1984: Vučko - najvani jinglovi
  • 1984: Vučko igra hokej
  • 1984: Vučko na olimpijadi
  • 1990: Slike iz sjecanja
  • 1993: Vrata
  • from 2009: Rudijev leksikon

Publications

  • 1966: Lexicon for illiterate people
  • 1986: Tupko: antistrip
  • 1997: Classic animation: how to make cartoons

Awards

At the Festival d'Animation Annecy , Dragić was awarded the Cristal d'Annecy for Krotitelj divljih konja in 1967. Mozda Diogen won a gold medal at the Belgrade Film Festival. For Dnevnik , Dragić received a Grand Prize at the Animafest Zagreb in 1974 and the City of Zagreb Prize in 1975, a gold medal at the Belgrade Film Festival and the Will Wehling Memorial Prize at the West German Short Film Festival in 1975 .

In 1973 Nedeljko Dragić received an Oscar nomination for Tup Tup for Best Animated Short Film .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Nina Ožegović: Nedeljko Dragić - Münchenski projekti doajena hrvatske animacije (interview). In: national June 2, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Dragic, Nedeljko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian animation filmmaker and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Paklenica near Novska , Yugoslavia