Tomislav Pinter

Tomislav Pinter (16 June 1926 – 15 August 2008) was a Croatian and Yugoslav cinematographer, regarded as the most significant cinematographer in Croatian cinema due to the artistic quality of his work and his prolific career spanning almost five decades.

Biography After finishing high school Pinter enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb in 1946 to study painting, but he soon dropped out and devoted himself entirely to cinematography. He began working at the Jadran Film studio in 1945, at first assisting more experienced cinematographers, and in 1948 he started working independently. He started shooting documentary shorts in the early 1950s and his first feature was the 1960 film Point 905 (Kota 905, directed by Mate Relja).

Selected filmography

Point 905 (1960) Alphabet of Fear (1961) Double Circle (1963) Three (1965) Prometheus of the Island (1965) Monday or Tuesday (1966) Rondo (1966) The Birch Tree (1967) I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967) Battle of Neretva (1969) The Way to Paradise (1970) Timon (1973) The Battle of Sutjeska (1973) Private Vices, Public Pleasures (1976) The Widowhood of Karolina Zasler (1976) Snowstorm (1977) See You in the Next War (1980) Petria's Wreath (1980) The Melody Haunts My Memory (1981) Montenegro (1981) In the Jaws of Life (1984) Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) Dancing in Water (1987) Crusoe (1988) That Summer of White Roses (1989) The Meeting Point (1989) Silent Gunpowder (1990) Kontakt (2005) Libertas (2006)