BIOFILMOGRAPHICAL INTERVIEW – RELJA BAŠIĆ

Relja Bašić – An Actor for all Mediums

An extensive bio-filmographical interview with the renown Croatian theater and film actor Relja Bašić.

In 1995. Relja Bašić (born Zagreb, February 14 1930) celebrated 40 years of acting in theater and in film (his first film role being remarkable episode in Concert /Koncert/ directed by Branko Belan, 1954; and the most celebrated roles were in Krešo Golik’s I Have Two Moms and Two Dads/Imam dvije mame i dva tate, 1968, and Who Sings Means no Harm/Tko pjeva zlo ne misli), 1970. In the interview form, Bašić recounts his family and early years, and his education years (he started education for a sea officer, and worked on ships for awhile, but then entered and finished Academy of Theatrical Art in Zagreb). Then he talks about his work as theatrical (mostly comic) actor, as a director/actor of travelling Theatrical group Teatar u gostima (Theater in Visit) which he initiated and lead (which have given a host of performances over the Croatia and Ex-Yugoslavia, and about his experiences with film roles and film directors.

The interview is supplemented by the short encyclopaedic entry on Relja Bašić, and by his extensive filmography.

Igor Tomljanović

Ivo Škrabalo