Aleksandar Petrović

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name = Aleksandar Petrović


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birthplace = Paris, France
deathdate = death date and age|1994|8|20|1929|1|14|mf=y
deathplace = Paris, France
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occupation = Film director and screenwriter
yearsactive = 1955 - 1989
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academyawards = Best Foreign Language Film
Nominated 1966 "Three"
Nominated 1967 "I Even Met Happy Gypsies"
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awards = Cannes Palme d'Or
Nominated 1962 "And Love Has Vanished"
Nominated 1967 "I Even Met Happy Gypsies"
Nominated 1969 "It Rains in My Village"
Nominated 1977 "Group Portrait with a Lady"
Pula Golden Arena for Best Director
1965 "Three"
1967 "I Even Met Happy Gypsies"
1972 "The Master and Margaret"

Aleksandar "Saša" Petrović (1929–1994) was a well known Serbian film director who was one of the leading European directors in the 1960s. Two of his films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film : "Three" in 1966 and "I Even Met Happy Gypsies" ("Feather Gatherers") in 1967. The latter film won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1973, Petrović was forced to leave his post at the Belgrade Film Academy after being accused of holding anti-communist views by the communist government of Yugoslavia. In late December 1989 he joined the founding committee of the Democratic Party in Serbia, the first opposition anti-communist party in Serbia.

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* [http://www.ce-review.org/00/41/kinoeye41_partridge.html Profile of Aleksandar Petrović and one of his leading films in English]
* [http://www.ce-review.org/00/41/kinoeye41_partridge.html Interview with Aleksandar Saša Petrović]
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=118453 Short biographical profile from the "New York Times"]
* [http://www.answers.com/topic/aleksandar-petrovic-writer-director-cinematographer-drama Short biography in English]
* [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sedm0324/petrovic.html Profile of Aleksandar-Saša Petrović and his most well known film “I Even Met Happy Gypsies”]