Fedor Hanžeković was a Croatia

Croatia

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n film director.

Hanžeković had studied art history

Art history

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 and English language

English language

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 at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences before starting his filmmaking career in the years following the end of World War II

World War II

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. Hanžeković made several political documentaries

Political cinema

Political cinema in the narrow sense of the term is a cinema which portrays current or historical events or social conditions in a partisan way in order to inform or to agitate the spectator...

 in the 1940s, most notable of which is the 1947 film Stepinac at the People's Court (Stepinac pred narodnim sudom), depicting the postwar trial of Alojzije Stepinac

Aloysius Stepinac

Aloysius Viktor Stepinac , also known as Blessed Aloysius Stepinac, was a Croatian Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 to 1960. In 1998 he was declared a martyr and beatified by Pope John Paul II....

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In the 1950s Hanžeković made a series of screen adaptations of novels penned by Yugoslav authors. He directed a total of three feature-lenghth films, most notably the highly popular 1957 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 Master of His Own Body

Master of His Own Body

Svoga tela gospodar is a Croatian film by Fedor Hanžeković. It was released in 1957....

(Svoga tela gospodar), based on the short story by Slavko Kolar and its theatre adaptation directed by Branko Gavella, and filmed in the Kajkavian dialect

Kajkavian dialect

The Kajkavian dialect is one of the three main dialects of Croatian. It has low mutual intelligibility with the other two dialects, Štokavian and Čakavian. All three are named after their word for "what?", which in Kajkavian is kaj....

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He is also notable as one of the founders and longtime editors of the influential Yugoslav film magazine Filmska kritika.

Filmography

• Bakonja fra Brne
  Bakonja fra Brne
  Bakonja fra Brne is a Croatian film. It was released in 1951....
  
  (1951)
• Stojan Mutikaša (1954)
• Master of His Own Body
  Master of His Own Body
  Svoga tela gospodar is a Croatian film by Fedor Hanžeković. It was released in 1957....
  
  (Svoga tela gospodar, 1957)

External links

• Fedor Hanžeković biography at Filmski-Programi.hr