FILM PIONEER
I was pleased to read Kenneth Turan’s articles last week about the Sarajevo Film Festival. His description of the state of Balkan films was excellent, although I was surprised to note no reference to one of the pioneers of Yugoslavian film, Aleksandar Petrovic, one of the greatest directors in film history.
Petrovic, who passed away three years ago, won a Palme d’Or at Cannes for “I Even Met Happy Gypsies” in 1967 (the first in Yugoslavian film history) and was nominated twice at the Academy Awards (for “Three” in 1966 and “Gypsies” in 1967).
A headline on Turan’s article about Emir Kusturica, “From Film Hero to Outcast,” applies as well to Petrovic, whose movies were forbidden in Communist Yugoslavia and acclaimed in the rest of the world.
JOVANA GOBIN
Los Angeles
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