Želimir Žilnik

Želimir Žilnik was born in 1942 in the Red Cross concentration camp in Niš, where the Gestapo was holding his parents, communist activists. His mother was executed there in December of the same year, and his father, a partisan, was killed by the Chetniks in 1944; the child was raised by his grandparents. He came to cinema through the documentary short. After run-ins with the censors, he worked in West Germany in the mid-seventies, came back to make films for television, and lives in Novi Sad, where he films marginal people with performers who play their own lives.

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• CinemaEarly WorksРани радовиŽelimir Žilnik · 1969Cinema