Rajko Grlić

Born: 1947-09-02

Rajko Grlić (born 2 September 1947) is a Croatian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of film theory at Ohio University and artistic director of the Motovun Film Festival in Motovun, Croatia. Rajko Grlić was born in 1947 in Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia. His father was Danko Grlić, a famous Croatian philosopher. Grlić's family by his father's side came to Zagreb from Schwarzwald, Germany in the 19th century, while his mother Eva (née Izrael) is from a Jewish family in Sarajevo. He graduated from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) at the same time as Emir Kusturica, a Bosnian film director. During the Croatian War of Independence, Grlić moved to the USA. In 2017, Grlić signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rajko Grlić, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Special Education

as Zatvorenik
Released: 1977-04-28

Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take...

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Us from Prague

as Himself
Released: 1971-12-31

Students from the Prague Academy of Film (FAMU) talk about their life in Prague. Filmed in...

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Occupation, the 27th Picture

as Himself
Released: 2013-06-29

We encounter the controversial Croatian film director Lordan Zafranovic in voluntary exile in...

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Winter of One Spring

as Himself
Released: 2022-11-29

Predrag Popovic, Goran Markovic, Srdjan Karanovic, Rajko Grlic and Lordan Zafranovic talk about...

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