Krešo Golik

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Krešo Golik
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died20 September 1996(1996-09-20) (aged 74)
Zagreb, Croatia
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter
Years active1948–1990

Krešimir "Krešo" Golik (20 May 1922 – 20 September 1996) was a Croatian

television series
.

Working almost exclusively at

Croatian cinema and his 1970 comedy One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away
is widely regarded as the greatest Croatian film ever made.

According to Croatian film scholar Ivo Škrabalo, Golik was "the only Croatian film-maker who managed to retain his integrity in all the periods of the post-war Croatian cinema, from its beginnings in the service of the propaganda of the victorious communist system to the last years of its existence".[1]

Life and career

Golik was born in

Plavi 9
(Blue 9, 1950), a mixture of the Soviet-style industrial epic, romantic comedy and football film, and is famous for its football sequences. After release it quickly became the biggest hit of then-young Yugoslav cinema.

During the 50s, Golik also directed

Djevojka i hrast (The Young Girl and the Oak, 1955). During the 1960s, it was revealed that Golik worked as a journalist during the fascist Ustashe regime when he was teenager. Golik was thus banned from directing for almost a decade, but continued working as an assistant. His comeback was marked by the nthological documentary Od 3 do 22
(From 3 to 22, 1966).

His melodramatic comedy films I Have Two Mothers and Two Fathers (1968) and One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away (1970) were the pinnacle of his career, humorously depicting the Zagreb middle class under communism and between the world wars, respectively. Those two films (especially the latter) have been regularly included among the top 10 Croatian films of all time, both by critics and audiences. He Who Sings... is considered as most popular film about Zagreb, and its popularity was so huge that a fast-food chain held the name of the characters of the movie.

Golik was very successful on television as well. He made TV films and dramas. His greatest TV success was another comedy: Gruntovčani, a series about the life of villagers in the Croatian region of Podravina. It was shot in the northwestern Kajkavian dialect. The success of the series encouraged the renaissance of the use of dialects in contemporary Croatian culture.

From 1979 until his retirement in 1989, he taught film direction at the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art. He was awarded the Vladimir Nazor Award for a lifetime achievement. Krešo Golik died in Zagreb in September 1996.

Although he did some art films, Kreško Golik is most famous for his more lightweight films and seria, and has been compared to Billy Wilder and Lubitsch.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ Škrabalo, Ivo (1998). One hundred and one years of the Croatian film (1896–1997). p. 546.

External links

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