Krsto Papi?

Krsto Papi? 7 December 1933 7 February 2013 was a Croatian screenwriter and film director whose career spanned several decades Papi? was born in Vu?ji Do near Nikši? in todays Montenegro His early feature films and documentaries were part of Croatian and Yugoslav New Cinema and often regarded as Croatian echo of the Black Wave artistic movement that mostly took place within Serbia Additionally Papi? himself was connected to the Croatian Spring political movement during the early 1970s He was the member of the Zagreb filmophile circle influenced by the French New Wave socalled Hitchcockians along with filmmakers and critics Ante Peterli? Zoran Tadi? Branko Ivanda Petar Krelja and centered around film critics Vladimir Vukovi? and Hrvoje Lisinski Papi?s two bestknown early feature films Lisice and Predstava Hamleta u Mrduši Donjoj were often attacked from the government sources Lisice did not get permission to represent Yugoslavia in the Cannes Film Festival so it entered Quinzaine program in 1970Izbavitelj was heavily criticised by Stipe Šuvar who alluded that films allegory about Fascism actually also refers to the Communism Papi?s subsequent feature films were more classical in its narration but again politically controversial in the last decade of Yugoslavia Particularly My Uncles Legacy critical picture of Yugoslavias political situation under titoism during Informbiro period which won nomination for Golden Globe in 1989 has been surrounded by controversy and political attacks from traditional Party circles and especially Partisan Veterans organisations so the production was delayed for couple of years but achieved due to support of intellectuals newspapers and Party fractions in the time of disolvement and fight among Party fractions in last years of the Yugoslav federation Papi? was awarded with Croatias highest Vladimir Nazor Award for live achievement in cinema in 2006 and with Grand Prix Special des Amériques at the Montreal Film Festival in 2004