Branko Schmidt

Branko Schmidt
Born	(1957-09-21) 21 September 1957 (age 68) Osijek, PR Croatia, Yugoslavia
Years active	1974–present

Branko Schmidt (born 21 September 1957) is a Croatian film director. His 2012 film Cannibal Vegetarian was selected as the Croatian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. ^[1]

Filmography

• Sokol Did Not Love Him (Sokol ga nije volio) (1988)
• Đuka Begović (1991)
• Vukovar: The Way Home (Vukovar se vraća kući) (1994)
• Christmas in Vienna (Božić u Beču) (1997)
• The Old Oak Blues (Srce nije u modi) (2000) - written by Goran Tribuson. With Graham Rock, Nataša Lušetić, Ivo Gregurević, Franjo Dijak and Damir Lončar. ^[2] This comedy, set at the beginning of the Croatian war of Independence, revolves around a British ecologist going to Osijek to save the oldest oak tree in the world. ^{[3] [4]}
• Queen of the Night (Kraljica noći) (2001)
• The Melon Route (Put lubenica) (2006)
• Metastases (Metastaze) (2009)
• Vegetarian Cannibal (Ljudožder vegetarijanac) (2012)
• Ungiven (Imena višnje) (2015) ^[5]
• Agape (2017)
• Demo (2020) ^[6]
• A bili smo vam dobri (2021) ^[7]

References

1. "'Ljudožder vegetarijanac' je hrvatski kandidat za Oscara". HAVC. 14 September 2012. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
2. "Kvalitetna komedija". www.matica.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 2025-12-16.
3. "Koje su najbolje hrvatske komedije?". eZadar.hr (in Croatian). 2012-12-07. Retrieved 2025-12-16.
4. "Baza HR kinematografije". hrfilm.hr. Retrieved 2025-12-16.
5. "HAVC::hrvatski audiovizualni centar". www.havc.hr. Archived from the original on 2012-09-20. Retrieved 2025-12-16.
6. "Demo - Movies". Art-kino Croatia. Retrieved 2025-12-16.
7. "Once We Were Good for You (A bili smo vam dobri)". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. Retrieved 2025-12-16.

External links

• Branko Schmidt at IMDb
• Hrvatska enciklopedija article (in Croatian)