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Filmmaker · Croatia

Nikola Tanhofer

Died in 1998

Nikola Tanhofer was born in Sesvete in 1926. An inventive cinematographer, he was the first in Croatia to use transparency projection, and moved behind the camera in 1957 with a film selected for the Berlin festival. Six other feature films followed, including the first Yugoslav film with fantastic elements. In 1969 he founded the teaching of film and television photography at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, devoted himself to it after 1970 and published a book on film photography in 1981. He died in Zagreb in 1998.

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