Krsto Papić

Krsto Papić (7 December 1933 – 7 February 2013)[2] was a Croatian screenwriter and film director whose career spanned over five decades. He is generally considered among the best directors of former Yugoslavia and the only director from Croatia that can be counted among the Yugoslav Black Wave.

Krsto Papić
Papić in March 2012
Born(1933-12-07)7 December 1933
Vučji Do, Yugoslavia
Died7 February 2013(2013-02-07) (aged 79)
Zagreb, Croatia
NationalityCroatian
Occupation
  • Screenwriter
  • film director
Years active1965–2012
Spouse(s)
Jadranka Štefanac
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(m. 1990; his death 2013)​
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Children2
AwardsBerlin Golden Bear for Best Film
Nominated 1974 A Village Performance of Hamlet
Golden Arena for Best Director
1970 Handcuffs
1992 Story from Croatia
1998 When the Dead Start Singing
Fantasporto Award
1982 The Redeemer

Biography

Papić was born in Vučji Do, near Nikšić in today's Montenegro.[3] His early feature films and documentaries were part of Croatian and Yugoslav New Cinema, and often regarded as Croatian echo of the Black Wave artistic movement that mostly took place within Serbia. Additionally, Papić himself was connected to the Croatian Spring political movement during the early 1970s. He was the member of the Zagreb filmophile circle influenced by the French New Wave, so-called "Hitchcockians", along with film-makers and critics Ante Peterlić, Zoran Tadić, Branko Ivanda, Petar Krelja and centered on film critics Vladimir Vuković and Hrvoje Lisinski. Papić's two best-known early feature films, Lisice and Predstava Hamleta u Mrduši Donjoj, were often attacked from the government sources. Lisice did not get permission to represent Yugoslavia in the Cannes Film Festival, so it entered Quinzaine program in 1970.[4] Izbavitelj was heavily criticised by Stipe Šuvar, who alluded that film's allegory about Fascism actually also refers to the Communism.[5]

Papić's subsequent feature films were more classical in its narration, but again politically controversial in the last decade of Yugoslavia. Particularly My Uncle's Legacy, critical picture of Yugoslavia's political situation under Titoism during Informbiro period, which was nominated for Golden Globe in 1989,[6] has been surrounded by controversy and political attacks from traditional Party circles and especially Partisan Veterans' organisations, so the production was delayed for couple of years, but achieved due to support of intellectuals, newspapers and Party fractions in the time of disolvement and fight among Party fractions in last years of the Yugoslav federation.

Papić was awarded with Croatia's highest Vladimir Nazor Award for live achievement in cinema in 2006,[7] and with Grand Prix Special des Amériques (for exceptional contribution to the cinematographic art) in 2004.[8]

He died in Zagreb on 7 February 2013 after a battle with stomach cancer, aged 79.[9]

Filmography

References
  1. Ba., G. (2015-12-05). "Preminula udovica Krste Papića brigu o blizankama preuzet će obiteljski prijatelji". index.hr (in Croatian). Index.hr. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  2. Krsto Papić Dead at 79
  3. "Krsto Papić u razgovoru: "Želim pridobiti vječnu publiku"" (PDF). Hrvatski Studiji - Zagreb. p. 10. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2010-12-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. Quoted in Predratna psihoza: slike 30-tih u Izbavitelju Krste Papića, an article by Nikica Gilić (in Croatian) "I would say that among creative forces in our /i.e. Yugoslav/ cinema we have two tendencies. One is oriented on apologetics and self-censorship; it is of course sterile.... Another orientation manifested in so-called Black Wave, indeed in showing how here we are on the dead end of world's events.... Sometimes that is reduced to a primitive pamphlet, like in films The Rat Saviour and Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja, which are then regarded as works of art in our community."
  6. "My Uncle's Legacy". Golden Globes. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  7. ""Vladimir Nazor" zaslužnima u kulturi". Novi List. 20 June 2007. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  8. "Awards of the Montreal World Film Festival - 2004". FFM - Montreal. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  9. Matić, Ružica (2013-02-07). "'Bio je uzor i učitelj, njegovo ime bilo je garancija kvalitete' - 24sata". 24sata.hr (in Croatian). 24sata. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
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