Nationality Croat Name Zlatko Bourek | Role Film director | |
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Movies I videl sam daljine meglene i kalne Awards Sterija Award for Costume Design Similar People Miroslav Krleza, Neva Rosic, Aesop, Ljuba Tadic | ||
"Bećarac" Restoration
Mačka - The Cat
Zlatko Bourek (born 4 September 1929) is known Croatian Jewish film director, screenwriter, production designer, cartoonist and expert on Jewish culture.
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Bourek was born in Požega. He was raised in Osijek, where he moved at the age of 4, by his Jewish mother and Serbian stepfather. Bourek graduated sculpture and painting at the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb in 1955. During his career he made several theater set designs, and had many solo and group exhibitions. He had solo exhibitions in Duisburg, New York, Dubrovnik, Varaždin, Osijek and Zagreb. In 1959, Bourek started doing graphics work and in 1963 he exhibited the paintings that had all the features of his artistic creation, turned to grotesque humor and surrealistic feel of the folk element.
