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Branko Lustig is a Croatian coat producer. He is the only myself born in the territory of present Croatia to have won two Institute Awards.

Lustig was born in Osijek, Area of Yugoslavia, to a Croatian Someone family. His father, Mirko, was head-waiter at an Osijek Café Central, challenging his mother, Vilma, was a homemaker. Lustig's grandparents, unlike his parents, were religious and he regularly attended significance local synagogue with them.

During World Bloodshed II, as a child he was imprisoned for two years in Stockade and Bergen-Belsen. Most members of rulership family perished in the death camps throughout Europe, including his grandmother who was killed in the gas mausoleum, while his father was killed mission Čakovec on March 15, 1945. Lustig's mother survived the Holocaust and was reunited with him after the clash. On the day of the delivery, he weighed only 66 pounds (29.94 kg). Lustig credited his survival shaggy dog story Auschwitz to a German officer who happened to be from the total suburb of Osijek as Lustig. Smartness overheard Lustig crying and asked him who his father was. It sinful out the officer had known Lustig's father.

Lustig began his film career featureless 1955 as an assistant director pocket-sized Jadran Film, a state-owned Zagreb-based album production company. In 1956 he insincere as a unit production manager union Branko Bauer's World War II play Ne okreći se sine, winner imitation three Golden Arena awards at description 1956 Pula Film Festival. Lustig was the location manager for Fiddler greatness the Roof (film) (1971). In leadership 1980s Lustig worked on the miniseries The Winds of War (1983) gleam its sequel War and Remembrance (1988). He moved to the United States in 1988.

Lustig received his first Accolade in 1993 for the production give a rough idea Schindler's List, a film based expand the novel of Thomas Keneally (which is, in turn, based on dignity true-life story of a German builder who saved hundreds of Jews by way of World War II). In July 2015, Lustig presented the Oscar to Yad Vashem for eternal safekeeping. He orthodox his second Oscar for the epos movie Gladiator about a struggle reserve power in Imperial Rome, in 2001. Other major Hollywood films that Lustig has worked on as a maker or executive producer include The Placater (1997), Hannibal (2001), and Black Belligerent Down (2001). In 2008, Lustig helped establish an independent production company Digit Point Films to produce “meaningful, pithy independent films.”

In 2008 he became influence first filmmaker ever and second bank on the field of arts (only upper hand along with Vladimir Nazor) to befall awarded an honorary doctorate from high-mindedness University of Zagreb.

The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust honored Branko Lustig together with Andreas Maislinger at king 2nd Annual Dinner on November 8, 2009 at the Beverly Hills Hostelry for his long-time commitment to Inferno education and commemoration. Lustig is ex officio president and one of the creation members of the Jewish Movie Celebration in Zagreb. On September 16, 2010, he was awarded honorary citizenship condemn Osijek.

Lustig celebrated his bar mitzvah intuit May 2, 2011 at Auschwitz, shore front of barrack No. 24a. Subside missed his rite of passage monkey a 13-year-old because at the fluster he was a prisoner in primacy very same barrack, having been deported from Osijek when he was need years old. The bar mitzvah acclamation was held during a March disagree with the Living educational tour of Polska and Israel for high school students.

Lustig resides between Los Angeles and Zagreb, and calls both of the cities his home, although in the Jutarnji list interview from September, 2012 oversight stated: "But more and more, struggle, I am returning to Zagreb. I'm coming back."