Jože Pogačnik

Jože Pogačnik was born on 22 April 1932 in Maribor. After studying directing at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, he was a film critic for the press, then made nearly a hundred documentaries and television films, often critical and committed, which won prizes at Oberhausen, Berlin, Venice and Belgrade. He made only three feature films, the second eighteen years after the first; the third won a prize at Pula in 1989. In 2015 he received the first Štiglic Lifetime Achievement Award and died in Ljubljana on 16 February 2016.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmStronghold of ToughsGrajski bikiJože Pogačnik · 1967Cinema