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Jadran Film is a film production studio and distribution company founded in 1946 in Zagreb, Croatia.[1]

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  1. 92 relations: Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Academy Awards, Adriatic Sea, Alan J. Pakula, American frontier, Ancient Rome, Anthony Perkins, Armour of God (film), Avala Film, B movie, Bogdan Žižić, Branko Bauer, Branko Lustig, Breakup of Yugoslavia, Central Europe, Cinema of Croatia, Cinema of Yugoslavia, Croatia, Croatia Film, Croatian language, Croatian War of Independence, David, David and Goliath (1960 film), David Jackson (director), Death Train, Don't Lean Out the Window, Dubrava, Zagreb, Face to Face (1963 film), France Štiglic, Franz Kafka, Grbavica (film), H-8 (film), Handcuffs (film), Ivica Pajer, Jackie Chan, Jasmila Žbanić, Jeanne Moreau, Krsto Papić, List of Croatian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, List of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Lordan Zafranović, Memed, My Hawk (film), Meryl Streep, Monday or Tuesday (film), Nacional (weekly), Nikola Tanhofer, Occupation in 26 Pictures, Orson Welles, Paklenica, Paolo Cavara, ... Expand index (42 more) »

  2. 1946 establishments in Croatia
  3. Cinema of Yugoslavia
  4. Film production companies of Croatia
  5. Mass media companies established in 1946
  6. Mass media in Zagreb

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.

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Alan J. Pakula

Alan Jay Pakula (April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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American frontier

The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few contiguous western territories as states in 1912.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Anthony Perkins

Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor, director, and singer.

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Armour of God (film)

Armour of God is a 1986 Hong Kong action-comedy written and directed by Jackie Chan, who also starred in the film in the lead role.

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Avala Film

Avala Film (Aвала филм) is a Serbian film studio, founded in 1946 as the first studio founded in post-war Yugoslavia. Jadran Film and Avala Film are cinema of Yugoslavia and Mass media companies established in 1946.

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B movie

A B movie (American English), or B film (British English), is a type of low-budget commercial motion picture.

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Bogdan Žižić

Bogdan Žižić (8 November 1934 – 29 April 2021) was a Croatian film director and screenwriter.

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Branko Bauer

Branko Bauer (18 February 1921 – 11 April 2002) was a Croatian film director.

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Branko Lustig

Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019) was a Croatian film producer best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for Schindler's List and Gladiator.

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Breakup of Yugoslavia

After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart, but the unresolved issues caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav Wars.

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Central Europe

Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.

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Cinema of Croatia

The cinema of Croatia has a somewhat shorter tradition than what is common for other Central European countries: the serious beginning of Croatian cinema starts with the rise of the Yugoslavian film industry in the 1940s.

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Cinema of Yugoslavia

The Cinema of Yugoslavia refers to the film industry and cinematic output of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which existed from 1945 until it disintegrated into several independent nations in the early 1990s.

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Croatia

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe.

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Croatia Film

Croatia Film d.o.o. (formerly Croatia Film d.d.) is a state-owned film production and distribution company based in Zagreb, Croatia. Jadran Film and Croatia Film are 1946 establishments in Croatia, Companies based in Zagreb, film production companies of Croatia, Mass media companies established in 1946 and Mass media in Zagreb.

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Croatian language

Croatian (hrvatski) is the standardised variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language mainly used by Croats.

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Croatian War of Independence

The Croatian War of Independence was an armed conflict fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat operations in Croatia by 1992.

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David

David ("beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.

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David and Goliath (1960 film)

David and Goliath (David e Golia) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Ferdinando Baldi and Richard Pottier with sequences filmed in Israel and Yugoslavia.

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David Jackson (director)

David Jackson is an American television director and television writer.

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Death Train

Death Train (also known as Detonator) is a 1993 American made-for-television action-thriller disaster film featuring Pierce Brosnan, Patrick Stewart, Christopher Lee, Ted Levine, and Alexandra Paul.

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Don't Lean Out the Window

Don't Lean Out the Window (Ne naginji se van), is a 1977 Yugoslav drama film directed by Bogdan Žižić.

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Dubrava, Zagreb

Dubrava is a large urban area in east Zagreb, Croatia.

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Face to Face (1963 film)

Face to Face (Licem u lice) is a 1963 Yugoslavian political film.

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France Štiglic

France Štiglic (12 November 1919 – 4 May 1993) was a Slovenian film director and screenwriter.

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language novelist and writer from Prague.

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Grbavica (film)

Grbavica is a 2006 film by Jasmila Žbanić about the life of a single mother in contemporary Sarajevo in the aftermath of systematic rapes of Bosniak women by Serbian soldiers during the Bosnian War.

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H-8 (film)

H-8 is a 1958 Yugoslav film directed by Nikola Tanhofer starring Đurđa Ivezić, Boris Buzančić, and Antun Vrdoljak.

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Handcuffs (film)

Handcuffs (Lisice) is a Croatian film directed by Krsto Papić.

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Ivica Pajer

Ivica Pajer (9 September 1934 – 17 August 2006) was a Yugoslavian-born Croatian actor.

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Jackie Chan

Chan Kong-sang (born 7 April 1954), known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kong actor, director, writer, producer, martial artist, and stuntman known for his slapstick acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and innovative stunts, which he typically performs himself.

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Jasmila Žbanić

Jasmila Žbanić (born 19 December 1974) is a Bosnian film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau (23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite.

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Krsto Papić

Krsto Papić (7 December 1933 – 7 February 2013) was a Croatian screenwriter and film director whose career spanned over five decades.

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List of Croatian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Independent Croatia has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1992.

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List of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

This is the list of Yugoslav submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film category.

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Lordan Zafranović

Lordan Zafranović (born 11 February 1944) is an eminent Croatian-Czech-Yugoslav film director known for his World War II trilogy consisting of Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978), The Fall of Italy (1981), and Evening Bells (1986), all co-written with Mirko Kovač (writer), for his experimental black and white early work, which mark him as a major figure of the Yugoslav Black Wave, and for his dauntless exploration of Ustaše crimes during the NDH period.

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Memed, My Hawk (film)

Memed My Hawk is a 1984 British-Yugoslav drama film directed by and starring Peter Ustinov, with Herbert Lom, Denis Quilley and Michael Elphick.

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Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress.

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Monday or Tuesday (film)

Monday or Tuesday (Ponedjeljak ili utorak) is a 1966 Yugoslav drama film directed by Vatroslav Mimica starring Slobodan Dimitrijević.

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Nacional (weekly)

Nacional is a Croatian weekly news magazine published in Zagreb.

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Nikola Tanhofer

Nikola Tanhofer (25 December 1926 – 24 November 1998) was a Croatian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.

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Occupation in 26 Pictures

Occupation in 26 Pictures (Serbo-Croatian: Okupacija u 26 slika; also distributed internationally as Occupation in 26 Tableaux) is a 1978 Yugoslav anti-war film directed by Lordan Zafranović.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre.

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Paklenica

The Paklenica karst river canyon is a national park in Croatia.

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Paolo Cavara

Paolo Cavara (4 July 1926 – 7 August 1982) was an Italian screenwriter and film director.

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Peter Richardson (British director)

Peter Richardson (born 15 October 1951) is an English director, screenwriter, actor and comedian.

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Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov (born Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov; 16 April 192128 March 2004) was a British actor, director and writer.

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Privatization

Privatization (rendered privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector.

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Prometheus of the Island

Prometheus of the Island (Prometej s otoka Viševice), also known in English as Prometheus from the island of Viševica, is a 1964 Yugoslav film directed by Vatroslav Mimica.

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Pula Film Festival

Pula Film Festival (Pulski filmski festival) is an annual Croatian film festival, established in 1954. Jadran Film and Pula Film Festival are cinema of Yugoslavia.

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Revolutions of 1989

The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world.

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Richard Shepard

Richard Shepard (born 1965) is an American film and television director and screenwriter.

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Rijeka

Rijeka (local Chakavian: Reka or Rika; Reka, Fiume (Fiume; Fiume; outdated German name: Sankt Veit am Flaum), is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia (after Zagreb and Split). It is located in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and in 2021 had a population of 108,622 inhabitants.

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Romy Schneider

Romy Schneider (born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach; 23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982) was a German-French actress.

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Saul

Saul (שָׁאוּל) was a monarch of ancient Israel and Judah and the first king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.

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A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores.

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Sophie's Choice (film)

Sophie's Choice is a 1982 psychological drama directed and written by Alan J. Pakula, adapted from William Styron's 1979 novel of the same name.

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Spaghetti Western

The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe.

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The Day That Shook the World

The Day That Shook the World (Sarajevski atentat, lit. The Sarajevo Assassination) is a 1975 Czechoslovak-Yugoslav-German co-production film directed by Veljko Bulajić, starring Christopher Plummer and Florinda Bolkan.

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The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin, with an ensemble supporting cast including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Ralph Meeker, Robert Ryan, Trini Lopez, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Clint Walker and Robert Webber.

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The Fall of Italy

The Fall of Italy is a 1981 Yugoslav war film by Croatian director Lordan Zafranović.

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The House (1975 film)

The House (Kuća) is a 1975 Yugoslav film directed by Bogdan Žižić.

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The Hunting Party (2007 film)

The Hunting Party is a 2007 American satirical black comedy thriller film, starring Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Diane Kruger, Jesse Eisenberg and Ljubomir Kerekeš.

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The Ninth Circle

The Ninth Circle (Deveti krug / Девети круг) is a 1960 Yugoslavian film directed by France Štiglic.

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The Pope Must Die

The Pope Must Die (alternative known title as The Pope Must Diet! in the United States and Canada) is a 1991 British Catholic Church comedy film directed by Peter Richardson, who also wrote the screenplay with Pete Richens derived from elements of an earlier screenplay for a three-part mini-series satirising the Catholic Church, and which had been rejected by Channel 4.

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The Ravine

The Ravine (La cattura) is a 1969 Italian-Yugoslav-American war drama film written and directed by Paolo Cavara and starring David McCallum, Nicoletta Machiavelli and John Crawford.

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The Tin Drum (film)

The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) is a 1979 internationally co-produced magical realistic dark comedy anti-war film adaptation of Günter Grass's novel of the same name, directed by Volker Schlöndorff from a screenplay co-written by Schlöndorff, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Franz Seitz.

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The Trial

The Trial (Der Process) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925.

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The Trial (1962 film)

The Trial (Le Procès) is a 1962 drama film written and directed by Orson Welles, based on the 1925 posthumously published novel of the same name by Franz Kafka.

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The Winds of War (miniseries)

The Winds of War is a 1983 American war drama television miniseries, based on the 1971 novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk.

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Train Without a Timetable (Vlak bez voznog reda) is a 1959 Yugoslav film directed by Veljko Bulajić.

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University of California Press

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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Vatroslav Mimica

Vatroslav Mimica (25 June 1923 – 15 February 2020) was a Croatian film director and screenwriter.

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Veljko Bulajić

Veljko Bulajić (22 March 1928 – 2 April 2024) was a Montenegrin film director and UNESCO Kalinga Prize recipient.

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Vikings

Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.

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Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff (born 31 March 1939) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer who has worked in Germany, France and the United States.

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War and Remembrance (miniseries)

War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the 1978 novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk.

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Washed Out (film)

Washed Out (Isprani) is a 1995 Croatian film directed by Zrinko Ogresta.

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When the Dead Start Singing

When the Dead Start Singing (Kad mrtvi zapjevaju) is a Croatian feature film directed by Krsto Papić.

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Winnetou

Winnetou is a fictional Native American hero of several novels written in German by Karl May (1842–1912), one of the best-selling German writers of all time with about 200 million copies worldwide, including the Winnetou trilogy.

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Zagreb

Zagreb is the capital and largest city of Croatia.

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Zagreb Film

Zagreb Film is a Croatian film company principally known for its animation studio. Jadran Film and Zagreb Film are Companies based in Zagreb, film production companies of Croatia and Mass media in Zagreb.

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Zrinko Ogresta

Zrinko Ogresta (born 5 October 1958) is a Croatian screenwriter and film director, professor of film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb and a member of the European Film Academy in Berlin.

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32nd Academy Awards

The 32nd Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 4, 1960, at the RKO Pantages Theatre, to honor the films of 1959.

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33rd Academy Awards

The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960, were held on April 17, 1961, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California.

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51st Academy Awards

The 51st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1978 and took place on April 9, 1979, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning at 7:00 p.m. PST / 10:00 p.m. EST.

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68th Academy Awards

The 68th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1995 in the United States and took place on March 25, 1996, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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See also

1946 establishments in Croatia

Cinema of Yugoslavia

Film production companies of Croatia

Mass media companies established in 1946

Mass media in Zagreb

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadran_Film

Also known as Jadran Films.

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