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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.
Nov 21, 2019 · By Richard Sandomir. Nov. 21, 2019. Nearly 50 years after his liberation from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Branko Lustig stood onstage at the 1994 Academy Awards ceremony to accept an...
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Nov 14, 2019 · Branko Lustig, a Croatia-born Jew who survived the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen and went on to win two best picture Oscars, died Thursday at his home in Zagreb, Croatia. He...
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Nov 16, 2019 · By Emily Langer. November 15, 2019 at 9:09 p.m. EST. Branko Lustig visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in 2015. (Nir Elias/AP) Branko Lustig was just a boy, newly arrived...
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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 was born on 10 June 1932 in Osijek, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He was a production manager and producer, known for Gladiator (2000), Schindler's List (1993) and The Saint (1997). He was married to Mirjana. He died on 14 November 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia.
Nov 14, 2019 · Holocaust survivor and Academy Award winner Branko Lustig, who nabbed best picture Oscars for “Schindler’s List” and “ Gladiator ,” has died at his home in Croatia. He was 87. His death was...
