Hajrudin "Å iba" Krvavac (22 December 1926 â€" 11 July 1992) was a
Bosnian film director most notable for directing movies from the
Partisan film genre during 1960s and 70s.His gift for precise
storytelling was visible in his early documentaries and would become a
staple of his feature films later on. Starting with his directorial
debut, the segment Otac (Father) of the anthology film Vrtlog (Vortex,
1964), all his feature films are action films set in World War II.
Their storytelling owes a lot to comic books and American action
films, especially westerns, with an imaginative combination of action
and emotions, personal drama and epic tragedy, idealised heroism and
psychological trials, sometimes with a dose of humor. Because of the
style of his films, Krvavac was sometimes compared to Howard
Hawks.Hajrudin Krvavac was born in the Mejtaš neighborhood of
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 22 December 1926. His parents,
both originally from Gacko, were Muslims and ethnic Bosniaks. Krvavac
had a brother Sabahudin.As a teenager in Sarajevo, Krvavac assisted
the Partisan resistance on the outskirts of the city that like the
rest of Bosnia had since April 1941 been occupied by the newly created
Nazi German puppet entity Independent State of Croatia â€" the
youngster reportedly made treks out of the city on four separate
occasions in order to take part in actions organized by local
resistance leader Valter Perić.
Bosnian film director most notable for directing movies from the
Partisan film genre during 1960s and 70s.His gift for precise
storytelling was visible in his early documentaries and would become a
staple of his feature films later on. Starting with his directorial
debut, the segment Otac (Father) of the anthology film Vrtlog (Vortex,
1964), all his feature films are action films set in World War II.
Their storytelling owes a lot to comic books and American action
films, especially westerns, with an imaginative combination of action
and emotions, personal drama and epic tragedy, idealised heroism and
psychological trials, sometimes with a dose of humor. Because of the
style of his films, Krvavac was sometimes compared to Howard
Hawks.Hajrudin Krvavac was born in the Mejtaš neighborhood of
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 22 December 1926. His parents,
both originally from Gacko, were Muslims and ethnic Bosniaks. Krvavac
had a brother Sabahudin.As a teenager in Sarajevo, Krvavac assisted
the Partisan resistance on the outskirts of the city that like the
rest of Bosnia had since April 1941 been occupied by the newly created
Nazi German puppet entity Independent State of Croatia â€" the
youngster reportedly made treks out of the city on four separate
occasions in order to take part in actions organized by local
resistance leader Valter Perić.
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