Veljko Despotović
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Born | (1931-10-01)1 October 1931 Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia (present-day Croatia) |
Died | 6 April 2013(2013-04-06) (aged 81) |
Occupation | Production designer |
Years active | 1964–present |
Veljko Despotović (1 October 1931 – 6 April 2013) was a notable Serbian film and television production designer.[1]
In 1958 he graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture, after which he continued with designing theatre, film and television sets. Between 1950 and 1962 he was working as an assistant in the art department and as an architect in theatre, film and television. Since 1962 he works as independent Serbian and foreign film set designer. He has done over 150 domestic and foreign movies and co-productions.
Despotović won two Golden Arena for Best Production Design awards at the 1979 and 1984 editions of the Pula Film Festival, the Yugoslav national film awards. for his work on the films The Man to Kill (Čovjek koga treba ubiti, 1979; directed by Veljko Bulajić), Burning (Usijanje, 1979; directed by Boro Drašković), and Strangler vs. Strangler (Davitelj protiv davitelja, 1984; directed by Slobodan Šijan).[2][3]
Selected filmography
- I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967)
- It Rains in My Village (1968)
- Who's That Singing Over There (1980)
- The Secret of Nikola Tesla (1980)
- Strangler vs. Strangler (1984)
- The Meeting Point (1989)
- Silent Gunpowder (1990)
- Tito and Me (1992)
- Tears for Sale (2008)
References
- ^ "RTS :: Preminuo scenograf Veljko Despotović" (in Serbian). Rts.rs. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
- ^ "26. Festival igranog filma u Puli" (in Croatian). Pula Film Festival. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
- ^ "31. Festival igranog filma u Puli" (in Croatian). Pula Film Festival. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
External links
- Official homepage
- Veljko Despotović at IMDb
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(1955–90)
- Želimir Zagotta (1956 shared)
- Ivo Spinčić (1956 shared)
- Miomir Denić (1957)
- Miomir Denić (1958)
- Vasilije Popović (1959)
- Duško Jeričević (1960)
- Dime Šumka (1961)
- Mirko Lipužić (1963 shared)
- Miomir Denić (1963 shared)
- Željko Senečić (1964)
- Vlatko Gilić (1965)
- Dragoljub Ivkov (1967)
- Nikola Lazarevski (1968)
- Niko Matul (1969)
- Bogić Risimović (1970)
- Miodrag Nikolić (1971)
- Vlastimir Gavrik (1972)
- Niko Matul (1973)
- Vlastimir Gavrik (1974)
- Niko Matul (1975)
- Dragoljub Ivkov (1976)
- Drago Turina (1977)
- Niko Matul (1978)
- Veljko Despotović (1979)
- Mirko Lipužić (1980)
- Vlastimir Gavrik (1981)
- Niko Matul (1982 shared)
- Janez Kovič (1982 shared)
- Niko Matul (1983)
- Veljko Despotović (1984)
- Željko Senečić (1985)
- Dinka Jeričević (1986)
- Kemal Hrustanović (1987)
- Snježana Petrović (1988)
- Slobodan Rundo (1989)
- Janez Kovič (1990)
(1992–present)
- Željko Senečić (1992)
- Ivica Trpčić (1995)
- Ivan Ivan (1996)
- Grubimix Labyrinth (1997)
- Vladimir Domitrović (1998)
- Gorana Stepan (1999)
- Ivica Trpčić (2000)
- Željko Senečić (2001)
- Mladen Ožbolt (2002)
- Ivica Trpčić (2003 shared)
- Kemal Hrustanović (2003 shared)
- Ivo Hušnjak (2004)
- Mario Ivezić (2005)
- Mladen Ožbolt (2006)
- Tanja Lacko (2007)
- Mario Ivezić (2008)
- Velimir Domitrović (2009)
- Ivo Hušnjak (2010)
- Ivo Hušnjak (2011)
- Ivana Škrabalo (2012)
- Mario Ivezić (2013)
- Damir Gabelica (2014)
- Ivan Veljača (2015)
- Željka Burić (2016)
- Petra Poslek (2017 shared)
- Iva Rodić (2017 shared)
- Ivana Škrabalo (2018)
- Jana Piacun (2019)