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Branko Bauer was born on 18 February, 1921 in Dubrovnik, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, is a Croatian film director. Discover Branko Bauer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Occupation Director, screenwriter
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 18 February 1921
Birthday 18 February
Birthplace Dubrovnik, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Date of death 11 April, 2002
Died Place Zagreb, Republic of Croatia
Nationality Croatia

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1921

Branko Bauer (18 February 1921 – 11 April 2002 ) was a Croatian film director.

1942

His father Čedomir Bauer and he hid their Jewish tenant Ljerka Freiberger from the Croatian Ustashi police in 1942.

1949

In 1949, Branko began working in the Zagreb-based Jadran Film studio as a documentary filmmaker.

1950

He is considered to be the leading figure of classical narrative cinema in Croatian and Yugoslav cinema of the 1950s.

Bauer became interested in cinema as a school boy.

During World War Two he attended local cinemas in Zagreb, which were very popular during the Nazi occupation.

The film was a critical flop, mainly because melodrama was not considered a serious genre in 1950s communist Yugoslavia.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Bauer was regarded as a master of Yugoslav cinema and commanded respect from the government and his colleagues alike.

Although his films never questioned the regime, the dominant set of values in these films was described as "old-fashioned" and "bourgeois": instead of the usual glorification of youth and revolution his films often praised the decent, old, middle-class type of families.

Bauer's typical heroes made the right moral choices not inspired by ideology but driven by a sense of honor instead.

Contemporary Croatian filmmaker Hrvoje Hribar once wrote that "Bauer had a sense for the blind spot of [communist] ideology, so he put his films in a place where it was as close as possible, yet least influential."

1953

His feature debut was the 1953 children's adventure film The Blue Seagull (Sinji galeb) which distinguished his work from then-native Yugoslav productions through vivid visual style and natural acting.

1956

Bauer became one of the most respected directors in Yugoslavia after his third film, the 1956 war thriller Don't Look Back, My Son (Ne okreći se sine; released as Don't Turn Around, Son in the US).

The film tells a story about a World War II resistance fighter who escapes a train en route to the Jasenovac concentration camp and returns to Zagreb in an attempt to find his son and join the partisans in the Croatian hinterland.

However, he realizes that his son is in an Ustaša boarding school and has been brainwashed.

The hero manages to escape the city with his son but throughout their journey, he is forced to lie to his son about their actions.

The film was loosely based on Carol Reed's thriller Odd Man Out, and its last scene - which inspired the title of the film - was inspired by Disney's film Bambi.

1957

Bauer's next film was the 1957 feature Only People (Samo ljudi), a melodrama influenced by films of Douglas Sirk.

1959

After that film, Bauer worked for a Macedonian production company and made Three Girls Named Anna (Tri Ane; 1959), a neorealism-influenced film sometimes compared to Umberto D. by Vittorio De Sica.

Three Girls Named Anna tells a story of an old man who lives alone believing that his daughter was killed in World War II as a child.

Suddenly the man receives information that she could have had survived and is now probably living as an adult in a foster family.

Bauer's gritty, authentic portrayal of post-war poverty and the lower classes of society was not welcomed by the establishment, and the film was never shown in cinemas, but it is today often considered Bauer's "forgotten masterpiece" and his best film.

1960

During the 1960s, Yugoslav films shifted to modernism, and Bauer couldn't accommodate to an auteur cinema.

In the 1960s he made two unsuccessful modernist films, and was subsequently unable to get funding for his new cinema projects.

However, by the late 1960s and 1970s, with the rise of modernist cinema, Bauer was pushed to the sidelines.

1961

Bauer's next two films were more commercially successful - the 1961 comedy Martin in the Clouds (Martin u oblacima); and the 1962 film Superfluous (Prekobrojna, 1962), which introduced Milena Dravić as a future Yugoslav superstar.

1963

Probably the best known of Bauer's films is the 1963 feature Face to Face (Licem u lice), a film which is considered to be the first Yugoslav political film.

It tells a story about a rebel worker who challenges a manager during a communist party meeting in a huge construction company.

Although it was initially seen as controversial due to its political content, the film eventually received support by communist officials, which was understood among filmmakers as a green light for more overt depictions of socially controversial topics.

Serbian director Živojin Pavlović said that Face to Face had been "the most important film shot in Yugoslavia by that time".

1970

During the 1970s, he directed the TV series Salaš u malom ritu (1976), a war drama set in Vojvodina, one of the most memorable works of Yugoslav television.

In the late 1970s his works were rediscovered by young critics as a kind of a Yugoslav version of old Hollywood masters.

Slovenian film historian Stojan Pelko wrote in the British Film Institute's Encyclopedia of Russian and Eastern European Cinema that "Bauer was for Yugoslav critics what Hawks and Ford were for French New Wave critics".

1980

A substantial critical reevaluation of Bauer's work took place since the mid-1980s.

1990

In a late 1990s critics' poll of all-time greatest Croatian film directors, Bauer took second place, behind Krešo Golik.

1992

As a result of these actions, Yad Vashem honored both of them as Righteous among the Nations in 1992.