Mladen Juran

Mladen Juran (born 8 May 1942) is a Croatian film director, screenwriter and actor - the author with the nominations for the Main Film Prize in Latin America and the Best European Fantastic Film, Oscar Academy Awards Candidate - films thematic related to roots and emigration, rebellion - an individual in the whirlpool of unfavorable and surreal social events, organized crime, love, loneliness, fate, the existential measure of everyone’s life, whether that life in monumental, ordinary, null or simply human - with debuting in French cinema, recorded in "Histoire du cinéma français 1966-1970", on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of French cinema.

Early life Juran was born in Zagreb. He graduated from high school in Split in 1960. After obtaining a diploma from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb in 1964, he went to Paris, where he graduated in 1968 from the Dramatic Arts College Charles Dullin at Jean Vilar's Théâtre National Populaire - "l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art Dramatique Charles Dullin au Théâtre National Populaire" at the Palais de Chaillot. During his study, he performed as an actor and worked with the theater, television and film, assisting directors Michael Cacoyannis, Abel Gance and Med Hondo. In 1967 he worked in Paris as an intern for Lee Strasberg, director of the Actors Studio.