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Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019) was a Croatian film producer best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for Schindler's List and Gladiator. He is the only person born in the territory of present-day Croatia to have won two Academy Awards.
21 Nov 2019 · Nearly 50 years after his liberation from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Branko Lustig stood onstage at the 1994 Academy Awards ceremony to accept an Oscar for best picture as one of three...
Branko Lustig was born on 10 June 1932 in Osijek, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He was a production manager and producer, known for Gladiator (2000), Schindler's List (1993) and The Saint (1997). He was married to Mirjana. He died on 14 November 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia.
14 Nov 2019 · Branko Lustig, a Croatia-born Jew who survived the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen and went on to win two best picture Oscars, died Thursday at his home in Zagreb, Croatia. He...
16 Nov 2019 · Branko Lustig was just a boy, newly arrived at Auschwitz, when he witnessed a scene that would be seared into his memory.
19 Nov 2019 · Branko Lustig, famed producer of Schindler’s List, Sophie’s Choice, and Gladiator has died at the age of 87. As a child, Lustig was imprisoned for more than two years at Auschwitz and later Bergen-Belsen. It was while trying to survive in the former that he witnessed the hanging of seven prisoners.
14 Nov 2019 · ( JTA) — Branko Lustig, the Oscar-winning producer of the Holocaust film “Schindler’s List,” has died. Lustig died Thursday at his home in Croatia at the age of 87. His death was announced by...
