Daniel Rafaelić, Film Historian, Philosophical Faculty, University of Zagreb: The German influence on Croatian film propaganda 1

The lecture will analyse film propaganda during the one of the most under-researched periods of Southeastern European film history – the period of World War II. Daniel Rafaelić, Film Historian at the University of Zagreb, has done extensive research on this period’s history of film production meticulously exploring archives and documentations centres in Zagreb, Vienna, Belgrade, Wiesbaden and Berlin. The results of this ten-years-long research process are now gathered in his newly published book “Cinematography in the “Independent State of Croatia””. The lecture will reflect elements of what Rafaelić is calling the “Göbbel’s art of film propaganda”, “Hitler’s art of film esthetics” and finally also artist’s resistance towards totalitarian ideology as portrayed through the work of Oktavijan Miletić.