Borivoj Dovniković

Borivoj Dovniković (12 December 1930 – 8 February 2022) was a Serbo-Croatian film director, animator, comic artist and caricaturist. He was a prominent member of the Zagreb school of animated films style. During the World War II in Yugoslavia and the existence of the Independent State of Croatia Borivoj and his father escaped to Serbia. He participated in the making of the first Croatian animated art film Veliki Miting (The Great Meeting) and, in 1957, he joins the Zagreb Film company, from where he created and worked on animated shorts and movies. This led to the creation of Lutkica (The Doll) in 1961, his first fully own creation.

Dovniković died in Zagreb on 8 February 2022, at the age of 91. In 2024, the City Assembly of Zagreb named a park in Trešnjevka-north after Borivoj Dovniković.