Veljko Despotović, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Serbian production designer
Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1931
Place of Birth: Zagreb, Zagreb County, Croatia
Date of Death: 06-Apr-2013
Profession: production designer
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Veljko Despotović
- Veljko Despotovic (1 October 1931 – 6 April 2013) was a notable Serbian film and television production designer.In 1958 he graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture, after which he continued with designing theatre, film and television sets.
- Between 1950 and 1962 he was working as an assistant in the art department and as an architect in theatre, film and television.
- Since 1962 he works as independent Serbian and foreign film set designer.
- He has done over 150 domestic and foreign movies and co-productions. Despotovic won two Golden Arena for Best Production Design awards at the 1979 and 1984 editions of the Pula Film Festival, the Yugoslav national film awards.
- for his work on the films The Man to Kill (Covjek koga treba ubiti, 1979; directed by Veljko Bulajic), Burning (Usijanje, 1979; directed by Boro Draškovic), and Strangler vs.
- Strangler (Davitelj protiv davitelja, 1984; directed by Slobodan Šijan).
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