Film
★ 5.8
1963
The Man in the Photograph
Pro-Nazi police arrests an ordinary man from the street because he is a dead ringer for a legendary resistance leader.
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Filmmaker
Born
1919-09-23 · 79 yrs
Died
1999-09-13
From
Karlovac, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]
Known for
Directing
Vladimir Pogačić (23 September 1919 – 13 September 1999) was a Yugoslav film director. Before World War II, Pogačić studied art history at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. In the late 1940s he enrolled at the Belgrade Film School. Between 1945 and 1947 he worked as a screenwriter and director at Radio Zagreb (present-day Croatian Radio) and as a director at the Zagreb student theatre, where he directed a local production of Señora Carrar's Rifles in 1947, the first-ever work by Bertolt Brecht staged in Yugoslavia). Pogačić's filmmaking career began in 1949 with The Factory Story (Serbo-Croat: Priča o fabrici), after which he went on to become one of the most prolific Yugoslav film authors of the 1950s.…
