Oktavijan Miletić was a Croatian cinematographer

Cinematographer

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 and director

Film director

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. His avant-garde

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 work in the period from 1928 to 1945 remains as one of the foundations of Croatian film

Cinema of Croatia

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Miletić was one of the founders of the Zagreb film club in 1928.

Miletić participated in an amateur film competition in Paris

Paris

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 in 1933 with his Poslovi konzula Dorgena and received an award from Louis Lumière

Auguste and Louis Lumière

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. His 1937 film Šešir was the first Croatian movie filmed with sound. In the Independent State of Croatia

Independent State of Croatia

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, Miletić filmed three cultural films for Germany

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's Tobis Film

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: Hrvatski kipari, Hrvatski seljački život and Agram, die Hauptstadt Kroatien. While all three films were originally thought lost, Daniel Rafaelić discovered Hrvatski seljački život in a Vienna

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 film archive in 2004 and in 2008 discovered Agram, die Hauptstadt Kroatien in a German film archive.

In 1942 he filmed Barok u Hrvatskoj

Barok u Hrvatskoj

Barok u Hrvatskoj is a 1942 documentary short directed by Oktavijan Miletić about the life of Janko Drašković. Music for the film was produced by Croatian composer Boris Papandopulo....

, about the life of count Janko Drašković

Janko Draškovic

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. In 1944 Miletić filmed the full-length feature Lisinski

Lisinski (film)

Lisinski is a 1944 film directed by Oktavijan Miletić about the life of Croatian composer Vatroslav Lisinski. Music for the film was recorded by Boris Papandopulo....

about the Croatian composer Vatroslav Lisinski

Vatroslav Lisinski

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. He spent the waning months of the Second World War working to safekeep the films of the Croatian state institute Hrvatski slikopis.

In 1967 he received the Vladimir Nazor Award

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 for lifetime achievement in film arts. The Oktavijan Award is awarded annually by the Croatian Association of Film Critics as part of the Days of Croatian Film.

He was born in Zagreb

Zagreb

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, which is also where he died.

Filmography

• Most (1938)
• Barok u Hrvatskoj
  Barok u Hrvatskoj
  Barok u Hrvatskoj is a 1942 documentary short directed by Oktavijan Miletić about the life of Janko Drašković. Music for the film was produced by Croatian composer Boris Papandopulo....
  
  (1942)
• Agram, die Hauptstadt Kroatien
  Agram, die Hauptstadt Kroatien
  Agram, die Hauptstadt Kroatien is a short film directed by Oktavijan Miletić in 1943 in the Independent State of Croatia. It was produced for Tobis Film in Germany and showed cultural activities in Zagreb, as well as the main monuments of the city....
  
  (1943)
• Lisinski
  Lisinski (film)
  Lisinski is a 1944 film directed by Oktavijan Miletić about the life of Croatian composer Vatroslav Lisinski. Music for the film was recorded by Boris Papandopulo....
  
  (1944)

External links

• Oktavijan Miletić biography at Filmski-Programi.hr