Bogdan Žižić

Croatian film director and screenwriter (1934–2021)

Bogdan Žižić

Born| (1934-11-08)8 November 1934

Solin, Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Died| 29 April 2021(2021-04-29) (aged 86)

Zagreb, Croatia

Occupation(s)| Film director, screenwriter
Years active| 1964–1998
Awards|

* Order of Danica Hrvatska

Bogdan Žižić (8 November 1934 – 29 April 2021)[1] was a Croatian film director and screenwriter. Žižić was regarded as one of the most prolific Croatian directors of short documentary films, and was also known for several critically acclaimed feature films made in the 1970s.[2]

Žižić had graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law before taking up filmmaking in the early 1960s. From 1960 to 1964 he worked as a dramaturge at the Zagreb Film production company, and he had his directing debut with the 1964 film The Flood (Croatian: Poplava), a documentary about the 1964 Zagreb flood. He went on to make a number of acclaimed documentaries in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly dealing with social issues and art.

After making a few surrealist experimental short films in the early 1970s, Žižić started making feature films, his most notable works being The House (Kuća, 1975) and Don't Lean Out the Window (Ne naginji se van, 1977), which both won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film awards at the 1975 and 1977 editions of the Pula Film Festival.[3][4] This made him the only film director whose first two feature films both won the award.[2]

In the second half of the 1980s and in the early 1990s Žižić served as head of Zagreb Film.[2] In 2008 Žižić was awarded the Vladimir Nazor Award for Life Achievement,[5] and in 2009 Žižić was named as the inaugural winner of the Honorary Stamp life achievement award "for contributions to documentary filmmaking" at the 2009 ZagrebDox film festival, along with American filmmaker Jon Alpert.[6]

## Filmography

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* The House (Kuća, 1975)
* Don't Lean Out the Window (Ne naginji se van, 1977)
* Whatever You Can Spare (Daj što daš, 1979)
* Early Snow in Munich (Rani snijeg u Münchenu, 1984)
* The Price of Life (Cijena života, 1994)

## References

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1. ^ Majstor kratke forme: Odlazak jednog od najvažnijih hrvatskih i jugoslavenskih redatelja (in Croatian)
2. ^ a b c "Bogdan Žižić". Baza HR kinematografije (in Croatian). Filmski-Programi.hr. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
3. ^ "22. Pulski filmski festival" (in Croatian). Pula Film Festival. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
4. ^ "24. Pulski flmski festival" (in Croatian). Pula Film Festival. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
5. ^ "Dobitnici "Nagrade Vladimir Nazor" za 2008. godinu" (in Croatian). Croatian Ministry of Culture. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
6. ^ "Otvoren 5. ZagrebDox" (in Croatian). ZagrebDox. 23 February 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2010.

## External links

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* Bogdan Žižić at IMDb
* Bogdan Žižić biography at Filmski-Programi.hr (in Croatian)

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Vladimir Nazor Award for Life Achievement in Film

1960s|

* Oktavijan Miletić (1967)

1970s|

* Branko Marjanović (1970)
* Fedor Hanžeković (1973)
* Branko Blažina (1974)
* Antun Nalis (1975)
* Rudolf Sremec (1976)
* Branko Majer (1977)
* Obrad Gluščević (1978)
* Branko Belan (1979)

1980s|

* Branko Bauer (1980)
* Aleksandar Marks (1981)
* Mate Relja (1982)
* Krešo Golik (1983)
* Fadil Hadžić (1984)
* Nikola Tanhofer (1985)
* Vatroslav Mimica (1986)
* Ante Babaja (1987)
* Tomislav Pinter (1988)
* Frano Vodopivec (1989)

1990s|

* Antun Vrdoljak (1990)
* Fabijan Šovagović (1991)
* Zvonimir Berković (1992)
* Radojka Tanhofer (1993)
* Pavao Štalter (1994)
* Željko Senečić (1995)
* Mia Oremović (1996)
* Tea Brunšmid (1997)
* Boris Dvornik (1998)
* Ante Peterlić (1999)

2000s|

* Duško Jeričević (2000)
* Ernest Gregl (2001)
* Borivoj Dovniković (2002)
* Ilija Ivezić (2003)
* Vladimir Tadej (2004)
* Zoran Tadić (2005)
* Krsto Papić (2006)
* Arsen Dedić (2007)
* Bogdan Žižić (2008)
* Veljko Bulajić (2009)

2010s|

* Božidarka Frajt (2010)
* Hrvoje Turković (2011)
* Ivica Rajković (2012)
* Nedeljko Dragić (2013)
* Ivo Štivičić (2014)
* Eduard Galić (2015)
* Božidar Smiljanić (2016)
* Rajko Grlić (2017)
* Rade Šerbedžija (2018)
* Vera Zima (2019)

2020s|

* Branko Ivanda (2020)
* Petar Krelja (2021)
* Dubravka Premar (2022)
* Branko Schmidt (2023)

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Films directed by Bogdan Žižić

* The House (1975)
* Don't Lean Out the Window (1977)
* Whatever You Can Spare (1979)
* Early Snow in Munich (1984)
* The Price of Life (1994)

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* FAST
* WorldCat

National|

* United States
* Czech Republic
* Poland

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