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Branko Lustig

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Croatian film producer (1932–2019)
Branko Lustig
Lustig at theLAMOTH 2nd Annual Dinner in 2009
Born(1932-06-10)10 June 1932
Died14 November 2019(2019-11-14) (aged 87)
Zagreb, Croatia
OccupationFilm producer
Years active1955[1]–2019
Spouse
Mirjana Lustig
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(m. 1970)​
Children1
Parents
  • Mirko Lustig
  • Vilma Gütter

Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019) was a Croatian film producer best known for winningAcademy Awards for Best Picture forSchindler's List andGladiator. He is the only person born in the territory of present-dayCroatia to have won twoAcademy Awards.[2]

Early life

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Lustig was born inOsijek,Kingdom of Yugoslavia to aCroatian Jewish family. His father, Mirko, was head-waiter at an Osijek Café Central, and his mother, Vilma (Gütter), was a housewife. Lustig's grandparents, unlike his parents, were religious and he regularly attended the localsynagogue with them.[3][4][5]

DuringWorld War II, as a child he was imprisoned for two years inAuschwitz andBergen-Belsen. Most members of his family perished in the death camps throughout Europe, including his grandmother who was killed in thegas chamber, while his father was killed inČakovec on 15 March 1945. Lustig's mother survived theHolocaust and was reunited with him after the war.[6] On the day of the liberation, he weighed only 66 pounds (29.94 kg).[3][7] Lustig credited his survival in Auschwitz to a German officer who happened to be from the same suburb of Osijek as Lustig. He overheard Lustig crying and asked him who his father was. It turned out the officer had known Lustig's father.[8][9]

Movie career

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Lustig began his film career in 1955 as an assistant director atJadran Film, a state-ownedZagreb-based film production company.[1] In 1956 he worked as a unit production manager onBranko Bauer's World War II dramaNe okreći se sine, winner of three Golden Arena awards at the 1956Pula Film Festival. Lustig was the location manager forFiddler on the Roof (1971).[10] In the 1980s Lustig worked on theminiseriesThe Winds of War (1983) and its sequelWar and Remembrance (1988). He moved to the United States in 1988.[1]

Lustig received his first Oscar in 1993 for the production ofSchindler's List, a film based on the novel ofThomas Keneally (which is, in turn, based on the true-life story of aGerman manufacturer who saved hundreds of Jews during World War II). Lustig himself had a cameo early in the film as a nightclub maitre d’. In July 2015, Lustig presented the Oscar toYad Vashem for eternal safekeeping.[11] He received his second Oscar for the epic movieGladiator about a struggle for power inImperial Rome, in 2001. Other major Hollywood films that Lustig worked on as a producer orexecutive producer includeThe Peacemaker (1997),Hannibal (2001), andBlack Hawk Down (2001). In 2008, Lustig helped establish an independent production companySix Point Films to produce "meaningful, thought-provoking independent films".[10]

Personal life and death

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In 1994 Lustig received theOrder of Duke Trpimir by PresidentFranjo Tuđman for his work in film.[1][12] In 2008 he became the first filmmaker ever, and second in the field of the arts (preceded byVladimir Nazor), to be awarded anhonorary doctorate from theUniversity of Zagreb.[2]

TheLos Angeles Museum of the Holocaust honored Branko Lustig together withAndreas Maislinger at his 2nd Annual Dinner on 8 November 2009 at theBeverly Hills Hotel for his long-time commitment to Holocaust education and commemoration. Lustig was the honorary president and one of the founding members of the Jewish Movie Festival in Zagreb.[13] On 16 September 2010, he was awarded honorary citizenship of Osijek.[14]

Lustig celebrated hisbar mitzvah on 2 May 2011 at Auschwitz, in front of barrack No. 24a. He missed his rite of passage as a 13-year-old because at the time he was a prisoner in the very same barrack, having been deported from Osijek when he was ten years old.[4] The bar mitzvah ceremony was held during aMarch of the Living educational tour ofPoland andIsrael for high school students.[15]

Lustig resided betweenLos Angeles andZagreb, and called both of the cities his home, although in theJutarnji list interview from September, 2012 he stated: "But more and more, slowly, I am returning to Zagreb. I'm coming back."[16] In the2017 local elections Lustig was elected member of theZagreb City Assembly as a candidate ofMilan Bandić'sparty list[17] but eventually did not take his seat.[citation needed]

Lustig died inZagreb on 14 November 2019, aged 87.[18][19][20][21]

Lustig's life was remembered inBBC Radio 4's obituary programmeLast Word in December 2019.[22]

Filmography

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YearTitleRoleNotes
1962KozaraA German wounded in the eyes[23]
1975Anno Domini 1573Bringer of the execution crown[23]
1984Memed, My HawkPrison Guard[23]
1993Schindler's ListNightclub Maitre d'[23]
1997The PeacemakerMan with Poodle(final film role)[23]

References

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  1. ^abcd"Hollywoodska večer za Branka Lustiga".Vjesnik (in Croatian). Archived fromthe original on 28 May 2009. Retrieved10 July 2008.
  2. ^abPenić, Goran."Oskarovac predavač na Akademiji".Jutarnji list (in Croatian). Archived fromthe original on 11 July 2008. Retrieved10 July 2008.
  3. ^ab"Moj put od logora do Hollywooda".Gloria (in Croatian). Archived fromthe original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved21 December 2010.
  4. ^ab"S Oscarovcem Lustigom na bar micvi u Auschwitzu: Mazel tov, Branko!".Jutarnji list (in Croatian).Archived from the original on 10 May 2011. Retrieved8 May 2011.
  5. ^Sandomir, Richard (21 November 2019)."Branko Lustig, 87, Dies; Holocaust Survivor Turned Film Producer".The New York Times.
  6. ^Flax, Peter; Baum, Gary; Roxborough, Scott; Guthrie, Marisa; Lewis, Andy (16 December 2015)."Hollywood's Last Survivors of the Holocaust share their stories".The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved16 December 2015.
  7. ^"U Hollywoodu održana večer posvećena Branku Lustigu".Jutarnji list (in Croatian).Archived from the original on 28 May 2009. Retrieved10 July 2008.
  8. ^Branko Lustig:Plakao sam Hrvatski (Crying in Croatian) onYouTube,Nova TV Interview, October 2010.
  9. ^"Branko Lustig: 'Logorovao sam s Annom Frank'".Dnevnik.hr (in Croatian). 22 May 2009.Archived from the original on 26 March 2017. Retrieved26 March 2017.
  10. ^ab"Branko Lustig".www.cinema.com. Archived fromthe original on 26 August 2006. Retrieved20 August 2006.
  11. ^"Branko Lustig, 'Schindler's List' Producer, Donates Oscar to Yad Vashem".NBC News. 22 July 2015.Archived from the original on 22 July 2018. Retrieved7 October 2019.
  12. ^"Odluka o dodjeli Ordena kneza Trpimira".narodne-novine.nn.hr. Retrieved10 February 2020.
  13. ^"Festival Židovskog filma Zagreb".www.jff-zagreb.hr (in Croatian). Archived fromthe original on 1 June 2011. Retrieved9 June 2011.
  14. ^"Branko Lustig primio priznanje počasnog građanina grada Osijeka".Osijek.hr (in Croatian). 16 September 2010. Archived fromthe original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved16 May 2011.
  15. ^Torok, Ryan."‘Schindler’s List’ producer named Mensch"Archived 24 August 2016 at theWayback Machine, jewishjournal.com, 6 February 2013; accessed 6 February 2013.
  16. ^"Lustig: 'Bio sam nedavno u Auschwitzu i bilo me je sram! Vijorile su se sve zastave svijeta. Osim moje Hrvatske'".Jutarnji list (in Croatian).Archived from the original on 24 September 2012. Retrieved22 September 2012.
  17. ^"U ZG skupštinu ulaze poznata glazbenica, bivše ministrice, proslavljeni filmski producent..."dnevnik.hr (in Croatian).Archived from the original on 22 May 2017. Retrieved23 May 2017.
  18. ^"UMRO BRANKO LUSTIG Dvostruki dobitnik Oscara napustio nas je u 88. godini - Jutarnji List".www.jutarnji.hr. 14 November 2019. Retrieved14 November 2019.
  19. ^""Schindler's List" Producer Branko Lustig Dies at 87".The New York Times. 14 November 2019.ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved14 November 2019.
  20. ^""Schindler's List" producer Branko Lustig dies at 87".ABC News. Retrieved14 November 2019.
  21. ^"Branko Lustig, Oscar-Winning Producer of 'Schindler's List' and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 87".The Hollywood Reporter. 14 November 2019.
  22. ^Presenter:Matthew Bannister; Contributor: Michael Goldfarb; Producer: Neil George (22 December 2019)."Last Word: Kenny Lynch OBE, Chris Moncrieff CBE, Kate Figes, Branko Lustig".Last Word. 13:35 minutes in.BBC.BBC Radio 4. Retrieved22 December 2019.
  23. ^abcde"Branko Lustig".IMDb. Retrieved26 April 2021.

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