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Filmmaker · Croatia

Lordan Zafranović

Lordan Zafranović was born in 1944 in Maslinica, on the island of Šolta, and spent his first two years in the El Shatt refugee camp in Egypt with his mother and older brother; the family was reunited afterwards in Split. A graduate of the naval school in 1962, he studied literature and the visual arts and, as a teenager, shot some twenty-five amateur films at the Split film club. A professional from 1965, he studied directing at the film school in Prague. He has devoted documentaries to the crimes of the Jasenovac camp and lives in Prague.

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