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Mar 22, 1928 Vilusi, Nikšić Municipality, Montenegro 96 years old
Croatian film director
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About Veljko Bulaji
- Veljko Bulajic (born 22 March 1928) is a Montenegrin-Croatian film director and UNESCO Kalinga Prize recipient.
- He has spent the majority of his life working in Croatia and is primarily known for directing the Yugoslav state-sponsored World War II-themed movies from the Partisan film genre.
- Bulajic was a resistance fighter in World War II having joined the Yugoslav Partisans group at the age of 13.
- Bulajic and his two older brothers were all wounded in battle and at one point his entire family was imprisoned in an Italian fascist concentration camp.
- The two surviving brothers, Veljko and Stevan, would later co-write the movies Kozara and Battle of Neretva.
- According to the Croatian Public Broadcasting Company, his films have reached an audience in excess of 500 million viewers worldwide.
- The top four most viewed Yugoslav films of all time were all directed by Bulajic.
