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Ante Babaja is a Director and Writer Croate born on 6 october 1927 at Imotski (Croatie)
Ante Babaja (6 October 1927 – 14 January 2010) was a notable Croatian film director and screenwriter.
Babaja finished high school in Zagreb before going on to enrol at the University of Zagreb where he studied law and economy. He started working in filmmaking in 1949, and his first job was as assistant director to Krešimir Golik on the making of Golik's 1950 feature film Blue 9 (Plavi 9). Babaja's directorial debut was the 1955 documentary short Jedan dan u Rijeci. He went on to film several short films before directing is first feature film The King's New Clothes (Carevo novo ruho) in 1961, a screen adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's short tale.
In the mid-1960s Babaja made several experimental documentary films, before filming The Birch Tree (Breza, 1967), his most well known film which is today regarded as one of the classic films of Croatian cinema. In the following decades Babaja turned to directing documentary films and only made a handful of feature films. Nevertheless, films such as Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh (Mirisi, zlato i tamjan, 1971) and Lost Homeland (Izgubljeni zavičaj, 1980) were also met with considerable critical acclaim.
He was also a longtime professor as the Zagreb Academy of Drama Arts and in 1988 he was awarded the Vladimir Nazor Award for Life Achievement.
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Ante Babaja
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Nationality Croatie
Birth 6 october 1927 at Imotski (Croatie)
Death 14 january 2010 (at 82 years) at Zagreb (Croatie)
Birth 6 october 1927 at Imotski (Croatie)
Death 14 january 2010 (at 82 years) at Zagreb (Croatie)
Babaja finished high school in Zagreb before going on to enrol at the University of Zagreb where he studied law and economy. He started working in filmmaking in 1949, and his first job was as assistant director to Krešimir Golik on the making of Golik's 1950 feature film Blue 9 (Plavi 9). Babaja's directorial debut was the 1955 documentary short Jedan dan u Rijeci. He went on to film several short films before directing is first feature film The King's New Clothes (Carevo novo ruho) in 1961, a screen adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's short tale.
In the mid-1960s Babaja made several experimental documentary films, before filming The Birch Tree (Breza, 1967), his most well known film which is today regarded as one of the classic films of Croatian cinema. In the following decades Babaja turned to directing documentary films and only made a handful of feature films. Nevertheless, films such as Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh (Mirisi, zlato i tamjan, 1971) and Lost Homeland (Izgubljeni zavičaj, 1980) were also met with considerable critical acclaim.
He was also a longtime professor as the Zagreb Academy of Drama Arts and in 1988 he was awarded the Vladimir Nazor Award for Life Achievement.
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The Stone Gate (1992)
Directed by Ante Babaja
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Božidar Alić, Zlatko Crnković, Pero Kvrgić, Boris Miholjević
Rating68%
Lost Homeland (1980)
Directed by Ante Babaja
Genres Drama
Actors Ivo Gregurević, Neda Spasojević, Zvonimir Črnko, Ines Fančović, Miodrag Krivokapić, Marija Kohn
Rating68%
The Birch Tree (1967)
, 1h32Directed by Ante Babaja
Genres Drama
Actors Bata Živojinović, Fabijan Šovagović, Nela Eržišnik, Stane Sever, Hermina Pipinić
Rating77%
Une belle fille mais malade est mariée à un homme dur qui ne se soucie pas d'elle. Ce n'est qu'après sa mort qu'il se rend compte qu'il l'aime réellement.
The Emperor's New Clothes (1961)
Directed by Ante Babaja
Genres Fantasy
Actors Ana Karić, Vanja Drach, Zvonimir Rogoz, Emil Glad, Fahro Konjhodžić
Rating71%
Blue 9 (1950)
, 1h35Directed by Ante Babaja, Krešo Golik
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors Stane Sever, Veljko Maričić
Rating70%
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The Stone Gate (1992)
Directed by Ante Babaja
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Božidar Alić, Zlatko Crnković, Pero Kvrgić, Boris Miholjević
Roles Writer
Rating68%
Lost Homeland (1980)
Directed by Ante Babaja
Genres Drama
Actors Ivo Gregurević, Neda Spasojević, Zvonimir Črnko, Ines Fančović, Miodrag Krivokapić, Marija Kohn
Roles Writer
Rating68%
Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh (1971)
Directed by Ante Babaja
Genres Drama
Actors Sven Lasta
Roles Writer
Rating73%
The Birch Tree (1967)
, 1h32Directed by Ante Babaja
Genres Drama
Actors Bata Živojinović, Fabijan Šovagović, Nela Eržišnik, Stane Sever, Hermina Pipinić
Roles Writer
Rating77%
Une belle fille mais malade est mariée à un homme dur qui ne se soucie pas d'elle. Ce n'est qu'après sa mort qu'il se rend compte qu'il l'aime réellement.