Rudolf Sremec was a Yugoslav and Croatia

Croatia

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n film director

Film director

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. He is regarded as one of the most important Croatian authors of short documentary film

Documentary film

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s. In a career spanning four decades Sremec directed and wrote some 90 documentary shorts, mainly dealing with various cultural and anthropological topics.

Born in Vinkovci

Vinkovci

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, Sremec graduated from the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

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 with a degree in Slavic studies and French language

French language

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. Sremec began making films in 1945 after spending some time working as a high school teacher.

Apart from documentaries he directed a handful of live-action short films and he also wrote the screenplay for the The Substitute (Surogat; 1961), a short animated film directed by Dušan Vukotić

Dušan Vukotic

Dušan Vukotić was an award-winning cartoonist, author and director of animated films from Yugoslavia. He is the best known member of the Zagreb school of animated films....

 which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Sremec spent a number of years working at the Croatian Radiotelevision

Croatian Radiotelevision

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 and directed a 1981 two-part television film August Šenoa about Croatian writer August Šenoa

August Šenoa

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. He was also a prolific film critic, editor of the Filmska kultura film magazine and taught courses in film history and film theory

Film theory

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 at the comparative literature

Comparative literature

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 department of the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Sremec was honoured with the Vladimir Nazor Award

Vladimir Nazor award

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for life achievement in film in 1976.

External links

• Rudolf Sremec biography at Filmski-Programi.hr