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Vilma Gütter. Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019) was a Croatian film producer best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for Schindler's List and Gladiator. He is the only person born in the territory of present-day Croatia to have won two Academy Awards. [2]
Nov 21, 2019 · Mr. Lustig, who went on to win a second Oscar as a producer of Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” (2000), died on Nov. 13 in Zagreb, Croatia, at 87. His daughter, Sara Lustig, said the cause was ...
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Lustig began his film career in 1955 as an assistant director at Jadran Film, a state-owned Zagreb-based film production company. In 1956 he worked as a unit production manager on Branko Bauer's World War II drama Ne okreći se sine, winner of three Golden Arena awards at the 1956 Pula Film Festival. Lustig was the location manager for Fiddler ...
Nov 16, 2019 · Branko Lustig was just a boy, newly arrived at Auschwitz, when he witnessed a scene that would be seared into his memory. Seven prisoners at the Nazi death camp were to be hanged in a public ...
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Nov 19, 2019 · Branko Lustig, famed producer of Schindler’s List, Sophie’s Choice, and Gladiator has died at the age of 87. As a child, Lustig was imprisoned for more than two years at Auschwitz and later Bergen-Belsen. It was while trying to survive in the former that he witnessed the hanging of seven prisoners.
Branko Lustig. Jump to Edit. Overview. Born. June 10, 1932 · Osijek, Croatia, Yugoslavia. Died. November 14, 2019 · Zagreb, Croatia (undisclosed) Mini Bio. Branko Lustig was born on June 10, 1932 in Osijek, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He was a production manager and producer, known for Gladiator (2000), Schindler's List (1993) and The Saint (1997).
Nov 14, 2019 · Branko Lustig, an Oscar-winning Croatian film producer and Holocaust survivor, has died at 87. The Yad Vashem centre in Jerusalem said Lustig died Thursday in Zagreb, the capital of his...
