Mladen Juran | |
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| Born | (1942-05-08)8 May 1942 (age 82) Zagreb, Cr Awardoatia |
Mladen Juran (born 8 May 1942) is a Croatian film director, screenwriter and actor - the author with the nominations for the Main Film Prize in Latin America and the Best European Fantastic Film, Oscar Academy Awards Candidate - films thematic related to roots and emigration, rebellion - an individual in the whirlpool of unfavorable and surreal social events, organized crime, love, loneliness, fate, the existential measure of everyone’s life, whether that life in monumental, ordinary, null or simply human - with debuting in French cinema, recorded in "Histoire du cinéma français 1966-1970", on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of French cinema.
Juran was born inZagreb. He graduated from high school inSplit in 1960. After obtaining a diploma from theFaculty of Economics at theUniversity of Zagreb in 1964, he went toParis, where he graduated in 1968 from the Dramatic Arts College Charles Dullin at Jean Vilar'sThéâtre National Populaire - "l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art Dramatique Charles Dullin au Théâtre National Populaire" at the Palais de Chaillot. During his study, he performed as an actor and worked with the theater, television and film, assisting directorsMichael Cacoyannis,Abel Gance andMed Hondo. In 1967 he worked in Paris as an intern forLee Strasberg, director of theActors Studio.[1]
After his return to Croatia, Juran started a career at the national television. Since 1973, he created more than 200 films and television series - Last Post Zagreb (Original Music Score by Croatian vibraphonistBoško Petrović), Zagreb's Greetings, Zagreb's Panopticum, Scenes of the Last Century - of various genres including - the full-length featuresThirty Horses (1987), a comedy about the consequences of the totalitarian system which he directed from a screenplay byIvo Brešan and with a number of renowned actors, including:Boris Dvornik,Milena Dravić,Milan Štrljić,Josip Genda,Sven Lasta...),And while the heart is going to be Croatia - AG Matoš (1993, a retrospective of exciting life adventures, morals, politics, culture, love and thoughts are glamorous, intriguing and demanding about us today more than ever),The Tin Heart (1994),(Original Music ScoreArsen Dedić) - a successful "rock generation - defenderSlavko Juraga and businessmanFilip Šovagović in the fullness of the iconography of Croatian War of Independence Profiters.
Juran's 18-minuteshort filmTransatlantic (1982) - described as a "surrealist depiction of tragic fate of the Croatian emigrant" - received high acclaim, and has been listed among the best Croatian short films ever. Both before and after making the short film, Juran was trying to make a full-length feature film with the same subject, but hints to political emigration were not seen as welcome, and Juran's idea was realized only after the fall of communism.
Transatlantic - afeature film of the same name - A movie epic about emigration, roots, America, Croatia, organized crime, love, loneliness, fate, the existential measure of everyone's life, whether that life in monumental, ordinary, null or simply human, with famous actor names such as - the Australian dive of Croatian originMelita Jurišić (co-stars of theBest World Film in 2015 by Fripesci Critics -Mad Max: Fury Road), Filip Šovagović, Boris Dvornik,Alen Liverić, Relje Bašić,Ivo Gregurević, Matije Prskalo - to the special guest star in the Prologue ofMartin Sheen - with the lyrical music of the song and the theme ofNenad Bach (Can We Go Higher - with Vince Welnick from The Greateful Dead), also with Original Music Score ofAlan Bjelinski andBruno Bjelinski - was world-wide accepted who won the 4 Golden Arenas at thePula Film Festival in 1998 and the Kodak Award, is a record for the Croatian television (by 2016, over Five and a Half million viewers!), selected as the first film of independent Croatia in the official competition of one of Few Recognized World Class A Festivals - nomination for the Golden Ombu,Mar del Plata International Film Festival 1999, the only Category A Festival in Latin America, where it was at the opening of the festival and in the festival distribution in Argentina, over 30,000 spectators - selected for the official program of another A category -Moscow International Film Festival 1999 - was also Croatia's submission for theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film that year.
"A movie epic about emigration, roots, America, Croatia, organized crime, love, loneliness, fate, the existential measure of everyone’s life, whether that life in monumental, ordinary, null or simply human. This taboo-theme in Croatian culture is brilliantly realized in the genre of a social psychological drama with melodramatic, criminal and adventure elements. This MichaelCiminoesque film was successfully presented in Los Angeles cinemas as the Croatian Oscar nomination - for best foreign film in 1998." - R. G. Tilly, 2003.
The Sunken Cemetery (2002) - According toGoran Tribuson's novel - surrealistic depiction of this time of war disaster in Croatia in the nineties - a terrible atmosphere, in the milestone of returnees' emigrants (Barbara Nola andSven Medvešek) in the catastrophic homeland, with the music ofIgor Kuljerić and with the screenplay and acting collaboration of Oscar-winnerJiri Menzel, upgraded to thriller elements and occasional comedy or grotesque situations - was nominated for theMelies d'Or Award - the Best European Fantastic Film -Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 2003.
"The Horror of Mladen Juran The sunken cemetery that won the Sci-Fi festival in Brussels portrays a middle-aged man who returns to (...) ... the development of the drama, upgraded to thriller elements and occasional comedy or grotesque situations. The director takes the film with an extraordinary sense of rhythm, refined eye for detail, creating true characters. Despite the provocative theme, this is about unsurpassed quality. "- Andre Deutsch, Variety, 2004.[1]
Syndrome Halla, The Inception of Croatian Professional Film – Born to Die (2017), withRelja Bašić the Faustian idea of restoring the lost films in the tradition of the first Croatian feature films, missing and forgotten of the horror of forgetfulness, shot by the first Croatian professional cinematographer Josip Halla, whose name also disappeared in the indoctrined silence of the twentieth century) - the short feature filmThe attack on the National Bank in Rijeka, 1909 (2009, the remake of the first feature film shot in Croatia) - the documentary filmsTake off (1976),Fear in the Bliznec Creek Valley (1978),Do not look up (1979), The Trilogy ofThe Living Photographs 1,2,3 (1982, 2006 and 2008),School of Public Health Andrija Štampar - Our Unknown Film Industry (1984),Between Life and Death (1989),The first went to documentaries (1990),A Tribute to America (2007),Dr. Andrija Štampar, Visionary (2012).
Juran's 1982 documentary about the early history of Croatian cinematography, The Living Photographs (Živuće fotografije) has been credited with establishing a new perspective on the history of film in Croatia and influencing the education of future Croatian filmmakers and film scholars.
Juran returns to the theater which he directed for the Croatian National Theatre, Rijeka in 1995- Poet's Fate, a drama of identity, the poet Petar Preradović, an Austrian officer who had forgotten Mother tongue and dealt with spiritualism (with Slavko Juraga, Olivera Baljak, Alen Liverić).[1]
Mladen Juran, together with his son, multimedia artist Igor Juran, is the founder of the artistic art organizationAdriatic Art Media Film (2011) (Dr Andrija Štampar - Visionary,Syndrome Halla,Morning Program andQuest to North).[2]