Frano Vodopivec
Frano Vodopivec | |
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Born | (1924-07-04)4 July 1924 Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
Died | 13 March 1998(1998-03-13) (aged 73) Zagreb, Croatia |
Occupation | Cinematographer |
Years active | 1952–1977 |
Frano Vodopivec (4 July 1924 – 13 March 1998) was a Croatian cinematographer.
Background
Vodopivec first began working with film and photography in high school and during World War II he worked at Hrvatski slikopis, the state-sponsored film company which produced propaganda shorts for the short-lived fascist regime of the Independent State of Croatia.[1] After the war he worked on newsreels, before joining Jadran Film production company, for whom he shot his first short feature in 1947 and his first feature film in 1952 (U oluji, directed by Vatroslav Mimica).[1]
His second feature was The Girl and the Oak (1955, directed by Krešo Golik), which won him the Golden Arena for Best Cinematography at the 1955 Pula Film Festival, the Yugoslav national film awards.[2] Vodopivec went on to work with a number of renowned Croatian directors in the following decades, including Fadil Hadžić and Antun Vrdoljak, and he won his second Golden Arena in 1969, for Hadžić's An Event and Vrdoljak's When You Hear the Bells.[3]
Along with Oktavijan Miletić, he is considered the first cinematographer in Croatian cinema whose work highlighted the importance of cinematography in the overall aesthetic quality of film.[1] His last feature film was Fliers of the Open Skies (Letači velikog neba, 1977) and he retired from filmmaking in the early 1980s. Vodopivec was also awarded the Vladimir Nazor Award for Life Achievement in 1989, the highest Croatian national award for arts.[1]
Selected filmography
- The Girl and the Oak (Djevojka i hrast, 1955; directed by Krešo Golik)
- Kaya (Kaja, ubit ću te!, 1967; directed by Vatroslav Mimica)
- Three Hours to Love (Tri sata za ljubav, 1968; directed by Fadil Hadžić)
- When You Hear the Bells (Kad čuješ zvona, 1969; directed by Antun Vrdoljak)
- An Event (Događaj, 1969; directed by Vatroslav Mimica)
- Passing Days (Idu dani, 1970; directed by Fadil Hadžić)
- The Fed One (Hranjenik, 1970; directed by Vatroslav Mimica)
- There Grows a Green Pine in the Woods (U gori raste zelen bor, 1971; directed by Antun Vrdoljak)
- Eagle in a Cage (1972, directed by Fielder Cook)
- Fliers of the Open Skies (Letači velikog neba, 1977; directed by Marijan Arhanić)
References
- ^ a b c d "Vodopivec Frano". Filmski-programi.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 13 September 2010.
- ^ "2. Pulski filmski festival". Web Archive (in Croatian). Pula Film Festival. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
- ^ "16. Pulski filmski festival". Web Archive (in Croatian). Pula Film Festival. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
External links
- Frano Vodopivec at IMDb
- Frano Vodopivec biography at Filmski-Programi.hr (in Croatian)
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(1955–1990)
- Frano Vodopivec (1955)
- Aleksandar Sekulović (1956)
- Nenad Jovičić / Aleksandar Sekulović (1957)
- Mihajlo Popović (1958)
- Aleksandar Sekulović (1959)
- Ivan Marinček (1960)
- Rudi Vavpotič (1961)
- Aleksandar Sekulović (1962)
- Mile de Gleria (1963)
- Tomislav Pinter (1964)
- Tomislav Pinter (1965)
- Tomislav Pinter (1966)
- Tomislav Pinter (1967)
- Ivica Rajković (1968)
- Frano Vodopivec (1969)
- Rudi Vavpotič (1970)
- Milorad Jakšić (1971)
- Mišo Samoilovski (1972)
- Branko Blažina (1973)
- Nenad Jovičić (1974)
- Ljube Petkovski (1975)
- Branko Blažina (1976)
- Božidar Nikolić (1977)
- Živko Zalar (1978)
- Tomislav Pinter (1979)
- Mišo Samoilovski (1980)
- Tomislav Pinter (1981)
- Rado Likon (1982)
- Živko Zalar (1983)
- Goran Trbuljak (1984)
- Božidar Nikolić (1985)
- Goran Trbuljak (1986)
- Radoslav Vladić (1987)
- Boris Gortinski (1988)
- Tomislav Pinter (1989)
- Jure Pervanje (1990)
(1992–present)
- Goran Trbuljak (1992)
- Slobodan Trninić (1993)
- Tomislav Pinter (1995)
- Vjekoslav Vrdoljak (1996)
- Goran Trbuljak (1997)
- Goran Trbuljak (1998)
- Vjekoslav Vrdoljak (1999)
- Darko Šuvak (2000)
- Mirko Pivčević (2001)
- Silvije Jesenković (2002)
- Živko Zalar (2003)
- Mirko Pivčević (2004)
- Vjekoslav Vrdoljak (2005)
- Branko Linta (2006)
- Mirko Pivčević & Dragan Marković (2007)
- Davorin Gecl (2008)
- Mirko Pivčević (2009)
- Slobodan Trninić (2010)
- Vanja Černjul (2011)
- Dragan Ruljančić (2012)
- Erol Zupčević (2013)
- Branko Linta (2014)
- Mario Oljača (2015)
- Tamara Cesarec (2016)
- Branko Linta (2017)
- Radislav Jovanov Gonzo & Luka Matić & Dubravka Kurobasa (2018)
- Sven Pepeonik (2019)