Obrad Gluščević, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Obrad Gluščević

film director

Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1913

Place of Birth: Metković, Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia

Date of Death: 05-Sep-1980

Profession: screenwriter, film director

Nationality: Serbia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Obrad Glušcevic (17 January 1913 – 5 September 1980) was a Yugoslav and Croatian film director.
He wrote and directed around twenty documentaries, five feature films and two television series.Born in Metkovic, Glušcevic first began acting in theatres in nearby Dubrovnik.
His first notable works were documentary and live-action shorts made in the 1950s and 1960s, some of which won awards at film festivals in Venice, Cannes, Oberhausen and Belgrade.In the mid-1960s Glušcevic turned to making feature films, and made three comedies which depict life in rural Dalmatia: Lito vilovito (1964), Covik od svita (1965) and Goli covik (1968).
After that he directed two children's films (Vuk samotnjak in 1972 and Kapetan Mikula Mali in 1974).
Mikula Mali was later expanded into a television series aired in 1976.
Glušcevic also authored the popular Yugoslav children's TV series Jelenko in 1980 produced by the Radiotelevision Zagreb. Glušcevic was honoured with the Vladimir Nazor Award for life achievement in film in 1978, two years before his death in September 1980.