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Honorary Heart of Sarajevo No. 18 2012
Sarajevo Honorary Heart — Branko Lustig (2012)
The Oscar-winning producer of Schindler's List and a Holocaust survivor — honoured at the 18th edition in 2012.
- Recipient
- Branko Lustig
- Awarded
- 2012 · 18th edition
- Role
- Film producer
- From
- Croatian
- For
- For his contribution to the art of cinema.
Branko Lustig received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo in 2012, at the 18th Sarajevo Film Festival. He was the Croatian-born producer who won Oscars for Schindler’s List (1993) and Gladiator (2000), and he carried a history few producers carry: he was a survivor of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, deported as a child.
His life connects to the story of this region and of Bosnia’s Jews at several points — he produced films about the Holocaust and about the region, and the memory he carried made him a particular figure at a festival whose own city had been besieged. He died in 2019.
Sources & further reading
What they said in Sarajevo
There are fewer and fewer films about the Holocaust. I feel that films about Jewish suffering will stop being made when I die.