Želimir Žilnik, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Želimir Žilnik

Serbian film director

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1942

Place of Birth: Crveni Krst concentration camp, Nišava District, Serbia

Profession: screenwriter, film director

Nationality: Serbia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Želimir Žilnik (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????? ??????; pronounced [???limi?r ?îlni?k]; born 8 September 1942) is a Serbian film director best known as one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave film movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
He is noted for his socially engaging style of filmmaking and criticism of censorship that was commonplace during the Yugoslav communist era.
After the fall of communism and the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, he became an outspoken critic of Slobodan Miloševic's regime in Serbia.