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Alma mater
  
University of Zagreb

Education
  
University of Zagreb

Role
  
Playwright

Name
  
Mate Matisic

Occupation
  
Radio editor


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Born
  
17 January 1965 (age 59) (
1965-01-17
)

Known for
  
Plays, screenplays, film and theater music

Awards
  
Golden Arena for Best Film Music (2000, 2003, 2008)

Music director
  
The Priest\'s Children, No One\'s Son

Movies
  
The Priest\'s Children, Fine Dead Girls, No One\'s Son, Will Not End Here, When the Dead Start Singing

Similar People
  
Vinko Bresan, Drazen Kuhn, Marija Skaricic, Krsto Papic, Dalibor Matanic

Mate matisic hrvatski identitet


Mate Matišić (born 17 January 1965) is a Croatian playwright, screenwriter, composer and musician. His plays have been staged in Croatian theaters as well as internationally, and some of them have been adapted into feature films. As a composer, he is best known for his film and theatrical music. He is a three-time winner of Golden Arena for Best Film Music, awarded at the Pula Film Festival.

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Biography

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Matišić was born in Ričice, near Imotski. At the age of six, he moved to Zagreb, where he finished elementary and high school. Matišić graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, but he never practiced law.

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Between 1996 and 1998, Matišić worked as a dramaturge in Jadran Film. Since 1998, he works at the Croatian Radio. He is also a docent at the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb, where he is head of the Department of Dramaturgy. He is married and a father of three.

Literary work

Matišić began to write in his senior year in high school. He wrote his first play, Namigni mu, Bruno!, in 1985; it premiered in the Croatian National Theatre in Split in 1987 as Bljesak zlatnog zuba. Upon seeing the play, film director Krsto Papić asked Matišić to help him with the screenplay for My Uncle's Legacy (1988). This was Matišić's first screenwriting credit, and the beginning of collaboration with Krsto Papić, with whom he worked on three more feature films.

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Matišić's plays have been described as "shocking". His most controversial play, Angels of Babel (Anđeli Babilona), staged in Gavella Drama Theatre, features a rural politician that has a sexual intercourse with a sheep, which some interpreted as an allusion to the President of Croatia and some other high-ranked Croatian politicians. From comedies that marked his early career, Matišić moved towards dark humor and more sombre subjects, with death as one of his major themes. Matišić's plays have been staged in Croatia (Split, Rijeka, Varaždin and Zagreb), Macedonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Russia.

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His most recent theatrical work, Posthumous Trilogy (Posmrtna trilogija, 2006) is a collection of three plays: Sons Die First (Sinovi umiru prvi), No One's Son (Ničiji sin) and The Woman Without a Body (Žena bez tijela). Although these three plays share some common motifs such as fatherhood, belonging and family, and all three end in suicide of the protagonist, Matišić described them respectively as a tragicomedy, a drama, and a dark-humored psychological thriller. No One's Son and The Woman Without a Body have been adapted into feature films, No One's Son and Will Not End Here, both released in 2008.

Music

As of 2013, Matišić composed film music for all five Vinko Brešan's feature films, winning Golden Arena for Best Film Music for two of them: Marshal Tito's Spirit in 2000 and Witnesses in 2003. He won his third Golden Arena for Best Film Music for No One's Son in 2008. Apart from film scores, he composed music for theater and television.

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Matišić is a multi-instrumental musician and a member of Hot Club Zagreb, a gypsy jazz band with international experience. His long-standing interest is music of Django Reinhardt, which has been the subject of his research for more than two decades.

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References

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