Zdravko Velimirović | |
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Born |
Cetinje, Zeta Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
11 October 1930
Died | 7 February 2005 Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro |
(aged 74)
Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1954-2005 |
Spouse(s) | Ranka Velimirović |
Children |
Mladen Velimirović Milica Velimirović Paunović |
Website | www.weblibra.com |
Zdravko Velimirović (11 October 1930 – 7 February 2005) was a Yugoslavian film director and screenwriter, University Professor, a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He directed 43 films between 1954 and 2005.
During his career he was involved in variety of Arts: film director of feature, documentary and short films, TV series director, radio drama director, theatre play director and screenwriter for all mentioned. Apart from his great achievement in arts and culture in Yugoslavia, he had outstanding cooperation with well-known film makers in the West and East and worldwide film societies. For many years in his career, He was also university professor and the principal at the Belgrade Dramatic Arts University, where many of his former students formed as world-class film makers. He was on sabbatical, teaching as a professor in Canada and lectured by invitation in various academies and art institutes around the world. He married Ranka Velimirovic, film and TV producer, in 1963, and they happily lived and worked together throughout life.