Oktavijan Miletić

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Oktavijan Miletić (born October 1, 1902 in Zagreb - died August 17, 1987 in Zagreb) was a Croatian cinematographer and director. His avant-garde work in the period from 1928 to 1845 remains as one of the foundations of Croatian film.^[1]

Miletić was one of the founders of the Zagreb film club in 1928.^[2]

Miletić participated in an amateur film competition in Paris in 1933 with his Poslovi konzula Dorgena and received an award from Louis Lumière.^[3] His 1937 film Šešir was the first Croatian movie filmed with sound.^[3] In the Independent State of Croatia, Miletić filmed three cultural films for Germany's Tobis Film: Hrvatski kipari, Hrvatski seljački život and Agram, die Hauptstadt Kroatien.^[4] 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 Kroatien in a German film archive.^[4]

In 1942 he filmed Barok u Hrvatskoj, about the life of count Janko Drašković.^[5] In 1944 Miletić filmed the full-length feature Lisinski about the Croatian composer Vatroslav Lisinski.^[6] He spent the waning months of the Second World War working to safekeep the films of the Croatian state institue Hrvatski slikopis.^[6]

In 1967 he received the Vladimir Nazor Award for lifetime achievement in film arts.^[7] The Oktavijan Award is awarded annually by the Croatian Association of Film Critics as part of the Days of Croatian Film.^[8]

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