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Veljko Bulajic
Birth at
23 March 1928
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Velko Bulajic was born on March 22, 1928 in Zagreb (Yugoslavia). Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb. He did journalism. He entered the cinema in 1952, was an assistant director, studied at the Experimental Film Center in Rome. Velko Bulajic made many documentary films, including a film about the earthquake in the city of Skople - Skople (1963), awarded the main prize of the Venice Film Festival. After returning from Italy, Velko Vulajic directed a feature film, The Train
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Velko Bulajic was born on March 22, 1928 in Zagreb (Yugoslavia). Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb. He did journalism. He entered the cinema in 1952, was an assistant director, studied at the Experimental Film Center in Rome. Velko Bulajic made many documentary films, including a film about the earthquake in the city of Skople - Skople (1963), awarded the main prize of the Venice Film Festival. After returning from Italy, Velko Vulajic directed a feature film, The Train Out of Schedule, in 1959, about the social transformations in a post-war Yugoslav village. He is known as the creator of large-scale epic films dedicated to the antifascist struggle of partisans in Yugoslavia: Kozara (1962) and Battle of Neretva (1969). The latter film was nominated for an Oscar as the best foreign film. Velko Bulajic also directed the films War (1960), Burning City (1961), A Look at the Zenith of the Sun (1966), Attempt at Sarajevo (1976), The Man Who Should Be Killed (1979), and High Tension (1981). Delivered in 1983, the film "Big Transport" was severely criticized and proved a financial failure for the creators.