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Filmmaker · Croatia

Vatroslav Mimica

Died in 2020

Vatroslav Mimica was born in Omiš in 1923. A medical student in Zagreb, he joined the clandestine communist youth in 1942 and in 1943 joined the Partisans, in their medical units. After the war he was a critic and one of the editors of the journal Izvor, then from 1950 directed the Jadran film studio, of which he was one of the founders. A director of fiction films from 1952, he moved to animation, then returned to feature films. He received the Vladimir Nazor Prize for his life's work in 1986 and died in Zagreb in 2020.

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