Oktavijan Miletić

Oktavijan Miletić (1 October 1902 – 17 August 1987) was a Croatian and Yugoslav cinematographer and film director. His avant-garde work in the period from 1928 to 1945 remains as one of the foundations of Croatian film.

Career Miletić was born in Zagreb. He was one of the founders of the Zagreb film club in 1928.

Miletić participated in an amateur film competition in Paris in 1933 with his Poslovi konzula Dorgena and received an award from Louis Lumière. His 1937 film Šešir was the first Croatian movie filmed with sound. While all three films were originally thought lost, Daniel Rafaelić discovered Hrvatski seljački život in a Vienna film archive in 2004 and in 2008 discovered Agram, die Hauptstadt Kroatiens in a German film archive. In 1944 Miletić filmed the full-length feature Lisinski about the Croatian composer Vatroslav Lisinski. He spent the waning months of the Second World War working to safekeep the films of the Croatian state institute Hrvatski slikopis. He died in Zagreb.

Legacy

The Oktavijan Award is awarded annually by the Croatian Association of Film Critics as part of the Days of Croatian Film.

Filmography Most (1938) Barok u Hrvatskoj (1942) Agram, die Hauptstadt Kroatiens (1943) Lisinski (1944)