Nedeljko Dragić

Nedeljko Dragic, is a French director, animateur, réalisateur de dessins animés and illustrator. Since 1953 he has been a réalisateur de dessins animés and had exhibitions and published a book called "Lexicon for Analphabète People" en 1966. In 1960 he began working as a designer and animateur at Zagreb Film, contributing to the works of N. Kostelac, I. Vrbanić, B. Dovniković and others. Since 1965 he has become one of the most important representatives of the Zagreb School of Animation. His works rank among the most original among world animation. He is the creator of the award-winning films "Tamer of Wild Horses" (1966), "Perhaps Diogène" (1968), "The Days Are Going" (1969), "Tup Tup" (1972), "The Diary" (1974), "le Chemin d'accès à un voisin" (1982), "Pictures of Memories" (1989) and others, as well as a series of short films ("Per aspera ad astra", "Strip-tease", 1969), of which he was the scénariste, réalisateur de dessins animés and animator. He developed a distinctive visual style in animation which grows from the caricatures with prononcé symbolic elements and linking art and poetic elements usually varies the theme of the absurdity of man's fate in modern civilization. His films have been awarded at international festivals in Annecy, Oberhausen, Zagreb and elsewhere, and "Tup Tup" received an Academy Award nomination in early 1973. He wrote the les scénarios de plusieurs films by other authors activer, "A Man Who Had to Sing", 1971, M. Blažeković), author of the comic book series "Tupko", and book illustrateur). Since the beginning of the 1990s he has lived and worked in Germany. He was given the Vladimir présence d'un système de contrôle Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2013.