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Croatian-Czech film director

Lordan Zafranović (born 11 February 1944) is an eminent Croatian-Czech-Yugoslav film director known for his World War II trilogy consisting of Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978), The Fall of Italy (1981), and Evening Bells (1986), all co-written with Mirko Kovač (writer), for his experimental black and white early work, which mark him as a major figure of the Yugoslav Black Wave, and for his dauntless exploration of Ustaše crimes during the NDH period.

Early life

Lordan Zafranović was born in 1944 in Maslinica, island of Šolta, in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia. He spent the first two years of his life in the El Shatt refugee camp together with his mother Marija and his elder brother Zdenko.

After the war, the family reunited with father Ivan and moved to Split, where younger brother Andrija was born. He graduated in ship-engineering from the Split Marine School in 1962 and continued with studies in literature and fine arts at