Ante Peterlić (18 May 1936 – 12 July 2007) was a Croatian film scholar, screenwriter and film director.[1] He is best known for his film Accidental Life (Croatian: Slucajni zivot, 1969), his debut feature film.
Ante Peterlić | |
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| Born | 18 May 1936 |
| Died | 12 July 2007 (aged 71) Zagreb, Croatia |
Peterlić was a prominent young film critic, and a professor of film theory at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. In the 1960s, he directed his first short TV drama, and was active as an assistant director in several feature films and documentaries, working also as a script doctor.[2] First to hold Ph.D. in film studies in Yugoslavia, with prof. Vera Horvat-Pintarić serving as his thesis advisor, Peterlić wrote several books on theory and history of cinema.
References
edit- ^ Pavičić, Jurica (6 January 2011). "Ante Peterlić: Portret kritičara koji je oblikovao filmsko mišljenje kod nas". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ Pavičić, Jurica (2008). "Novo viđenje 'nevidljivog' filma". Zapis (in Croatian) (63). Croatian Film Association. Retrieved 2016-06-01.