death_place death_date years_active birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
zagreb , sfr yugoslavia 5 september 1980 1948 -- 1980 metković , austria-hungary 17 january 1913 obrad gluščević
 obrad gluščević film director , screenwriter
obrad gluščević

obrad gluščević -lrb- 17 january 1913 -- 5 september 1980 -rrb- was a yugoslav and croatian film director .
he wrote and directed around twenty documentaries , five feature films and two television series .
born in metković , gluščević first began acting in theatres in nearby dubrovnik .
his first notable works were documentary and live-action shorts made in the 1950s and 1960s , some of which won awards at film festivals in venice , cannes , oberhausen and belgrade .
in the mid-1960s gluščević turned to making feature films , and made three comedies which depict life in rural dalmatia : `` lito vilovito '' -lrb- 1964 -rrb- , '' Čovik od svita '' -lrb- 1965 -rrb- and `` goli čovik '' -lrb- 1968 -rrb- .
after that he directed two children 's films -lrb- `` vuk samotnjak '' in 1972 and `` kapetan mikula mali '' in 1974 -rrb- .
`` mikula mali '' was later expanded into a television series aired in 1976 .
gluščević also authored the popular yugoslav children 's tv series `` jelenko '' in 1980 produced by the radiotelevision zagreb .
gluščević was honoured with the vladimir nazor award for life achievement in film in 1978 , two years before his death in september 1980 .
