Director
Vlado Kristl
103 years · Zagreb · 18 films
Vladislav "Vlado" Kristl (24 January 1923, Zagreb, Croatia – 7 July 2004, Munich, Germany) was a filmmaker and artist, best known for his animations and short films. Vladislav "Vlado" Kristl was born 24 January 1923 in Zagreb, Croatia.[citation needed] Kristl first came to international prominence for his formally challenging and rigorous animations, particularly Don Kihot (freely inspired by Cervantes' Don Quixote). The film is a "graphical and abstract masterpiece which went beyond all existing conventions" and was awarded the main prize at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. Kristl regarded this film, which was not his first, as the one where he "was finally given a free rein". In 1962 Kristl made General i resni clovek (The General and the real man), a satirical live action short film which got him into trouble with the board of censors. He died in 2004, aged 81, in Munich, Germany. With his partner Jelena he had two children, Madeleine (b. 1966) and Pepe Stephan (b. 1968). He published two books of poetry: Neznatna lirika (Insignificant lyrics, 1959), and Pet bijelih stepenica (Five white steps, 1961) in Croatian, and several books in German.
Best known for
Filmography 18
Art Is Only Outside Human Society
2002 · Director, Writer
The Film of the Authority
1971 · Producer, Writer
Films That Last Seconds
1969 · Director, Writer
A Pad of 100 Leaves
1968 · Producer, Director
Utopia
1967 · Director, Writer
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967 · Actor
The Letter
1966 · Actor, Writer
Prometheus
1966 · Writer, Director
...Geist und ein wenig Glück
1965 · Himself
Car Race
1965 · Actor, Writer
The Dam
1964 · Der 'Clown', Writer
Madeleine, Madeleine
1963 · Director, Writer
Poor People
1963 · Actor, Director
The General
1962 · Actor, Director
Don Quixote
1962 · Director, Writer
Shagreen Leather
1960 · Director
All the Drawings of the Town
1959 · Director
Theft of Jewels
1959 · Director