Boštjan Hladnik was a Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

n/Slovene filmmaker.

Hladnik was born in Kranj

Kranj

' is the third largest municipality and fourth largest city in Slovenia, with a population of 54,500 . It is located approximately 20 km north-west of Ljubljana...

. He started with amateur short films after acquiring a projector and a 8mm camera

8 mm film

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 in 1947. From 1949 he studied at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television

Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television

The Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television is an academy of the University of Ljubljana in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is the only college and graduate school in Slovenia with a similar curriculum. It is composed of three colleges: the College for Theatre and Radio, the College for Film and...

 in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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 and made a name for himself with several highly acclaimed short films. In 1957, Hladnik moved to Paris

Paris

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 to apprentice under French filmmakers such as Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...

, Philipe de Broca, and Robert Siodmak

Robert Siodmak

Robert Siodmak was a German born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s.-Early life:...

. Hladnik's early-'60s features, Ples v dežju

Ples v dežju

Ples v dežju is a 1961 Slovene film directed by Boštjan Hladnik. Its international English title is Dance in the Rain. It is a love drama based on the novel Črni dnevi in beli dan by Dominik Smole....

 (Dance in the Rain) (1961) and Peščeni grad/Sand Castle (1962), influenced the course of Yugoslav cinema, through integrating influences from the nouvelle vague into it. Hladnik has an obsession with eroticism. He made many films dealing openly with sex and his Erotikon (1963), with its openly sensual approach to taboo sexual relationships, not only triggered angry protests in the press, but it also led to it being banned in some Yugoslav republics. Western European critics and public however, supported Hladnik enough for him to find foreign backing for his even more provocative feature film on sexuality, Maškarada/Masquerade

Maskarada

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(1971). Hladnik died in Ljubljana in 2006.