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Oktavijan Miletic

Oktavijan Miletic - The Father of Croatian Film. The founder of the Zagreb film club and the winner of an amateur film award in Paris (1933) - the film award is most notable as it was awarded by Louis Lumiere (one of the earliest film makers in history). He entirely created the first full-length Croatian film in 1944 (Lisinski) and was the man behind the Independent State of Croatia's Film Weekly (Slikopisni Tjednik). Because of mentioned affiliations he has been largely forgotten even though he was supported within communist Yugoslavia by Vladimir Nazor (who too produced works for the Croatian state prior to joining the communist party).