Veljko Bulajic

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Veljko Bulajić 1969

Veljko Bulajić (born March 22, 1928 in Vilusi, Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is a Montenegrin film director and screenwriter .

Life

Bulajić was born as one of three brothers in Vilusi ( Nikšić parish ); the oldest brother died in World War II . He spent his childhood and youth in Sarajevo and Vilusi and finished school in Sarajevo. After the war he went to the Yugoslav People's Army and then studied film directing at the Centro Sperimentale de Cinematografia in Rome until 1959, where he came into contact with directors such as Federico Fellini and Vittorio De Sica and also worked for De Sica as an assistant director. Bulajić was so strongly influenced by neorealism that he later brought to Yugoslav film.

He first directed various short films before making his debut feature film with the drama Vlak bez voznog reda in 1959 . The film ran at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1959 in the competition for the Palme d'Or . He turned to partisan film early in his career and, in retrospect, is considered the “grandmaster of the genre”. In addition to Kozara (1962) and Veliki transport (1983), the extremely expensive film The Battle of the Neretva, which was released in 1969, had a major impact on the genre. The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film in 1970 and exported to 46 countries.

Bulajić has won numerous international prizes and was a member of the jury at the Cannes International Film Festival twice - in 1969 and 1980 . After 1989 it became quieter around him. He was actively involved against Slobodan Milošević and began working on a film about the battle for Vukovar in the early 2000s , which he had to discontinue after a year. It only returned to the big screen in 2006 with the historical drama Libertas about the life of the poet Marin Držić, set in the 16th century . Since 2014 he has been working in Croatia on a film with the working title Bijeg do mora .

Bulajić lives in Croatia and is married; the marriage has two daughters.

Filmography

  • 1953: Oslobodjene snage (short film)
  • 1953: Osam godina poslije rata (short film)
  • 1953: Kamen i more (short film)
  • 1953: Brod lutalica (short film)
  • 1953: Briga o ljudima (short film)
  • 1954: Poslije deset godina (short film)
  • 1959: Vlak bez voznog reda
  • 1960: war (council)
  • 1961: Uzavreli grad
  • 1962: Kozara
  • 1964: Skopje '63 (documentary)
  • 1966: Pogled u zjenicu sunca
  • 1969: The Battle of the Neretva (Bitka na Neretvi)
  • 1973: Crna Gora (TV series)
  • 1975: The day that changed the world (Sarajevski atentat)
  • 1979: The Man Who Should Be Killed (Covjek koga treba ubiti)
  • 1980: Titovi memoari (documentary film)
  • 1981: Visoki napon
  • 1983: Veliki transport
  • 1986: Obećana zemlja
  • 1989: Donor
  • 2006: Libertas

Awards (selection)

Web links

Commons : Veljko Bulajić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Veljko Bulajić . vecernji.hr
  2. ↑ Daniel Suber, Slobodan Karamanic: Retracing Images: Visual Culture After Yugoslavia . BRILL, 2012, p. 139, FN 4.
  3. ↑ Veljko Bulajić: "Libertas" se svidio kardinalima u Vatikanu ( memento of the original from February 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jutarnji.hr 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. . jutarnji.hr July 22, 2006.
  4. ↑ Alexander Mirimov: "Easy" -Yugoslavia? Rediscovery of what used to be one of the most important European cinematographies: Metropolis is launching a four-month retrospective from partisan films to postmodern exhilaration . In: Die Tageszeitung , June 1, 2002, p. 27.
  5. ↑ a b c d Alen Matušin: Veljko Bulajić: Gdje je i što danas radi redatelj "Bitke na Neretvi" . evarazdin.hr, May 25, 2014.
  6. ↑ See 1980 award winners on sitgesfilmfestival.com
personal data
SURNAME Bulajić, Veljko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Montenegrin film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilusi , Kingdom of Yugoslavia