Our 50 Years Award laureate \u017divko Zalar has been on film sets for 62 years. He started acting as a 10-year-old and he spent lots of time of the film sets where his father worked as a cameraman. Then he joins Kinoklub Zagreb as a film amateur. After that he enrolls the acclaimed FAMU film school in Prague and studies cinematography there. \u201cAn actress once complained on the set that I didn\u2019t do my job well because she looked ugly on the screen. But such was her role\u201d, Zalar illustrated his approach in the conversation with MFF director Igor Mirkovi\u0107. In Prague he met three directors that he would later cooperate with for years \u2013 Rajko Grli\u0107, Sr\u0111an Karanovi\u0107 and Goran Markovi\u0107. After the studies he got a job as a TV cameraman. He photographed his first feature film the year after that. In his career he made around thirty films (almost one hundred, if we count TV films). Most of his career he spent working in Germany, but he also worked in other countries. \u201cWorking on a film is about solving problems. Some people like solving crosswords and I like solving cinematic problems,\u201d explains Zalar. He says he has been watching two years every day in the past 15 years. At the festival we saw Reflections, a film directed by Goran Markovi\u0107 and photographed by \u017divko Zalar. It is a horror movie, but also a social drama describing the period it was made in.<\/p>\n\n
\u201cAn actress once complained on the set that I didn\u2019t do my job well because she looked ugly on the screen. But such was her role\u201d, Zalar illustrated his approach in the conversation with\r\nMFF director Igor Mirkovi\u0107. In Prague he met three directors that he would later cooperate with for years \u2013 Rajko Grli\u0107, Sr\u0111an Karanovi\u0107 and Goran Markovi\u0107. After the studies he got a job as a TV cameraman. He photographed his first feature film the year after that. In his career he made around thirty films (almost one hundred, if we count TV films). Most of his\r\ncareer he spent working in Germany, but he also worked in other countries.<\/p>\n\n
\u201cWorking on a film is about solving problems. Some people like solving crosswords and I like solving cinematic problems,\u201d explains Zalar. He says he has been watching two years every day in the past 15 years.<\/p>\n\n
At the festival we saw Reflections, a film directed by Goran Markovi\u0107 and photographed by \u017divko Zalar. It is a horror movie, but also a social drama describing the period it was made in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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