BRANKO LUSTIG
Branko Lustig
- (Branko Lustig, 2009)
Biography
BIO
Branko Lustig was born in Osijek, Croatia in 1932. His father was a waiter. He was imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps as a child during World War II and later reunited with his mother who was also a Holocaust survivor. The rest of the family was killed.
Lustig was first credited as a unit production manager in 1956, at the age of 24, for Jadram Film, a state-owned production company based in Zagreb, Croatia. He remained at Jadram for the next 35 years producing historical dramas, horror films and erotica.
Lustig began developing a reputation in Hollywood after working as in-country production supervisor for the international hit Sophie’s Choice (1982). With the fall of communism in the late 1980s, Lustig took his production experience directly to Los Angeles.
He teamed up with director Steven Spielberg and shared an Academy Award for Best Picture for Schindler’s List (1993). He shared the Oscar again, this time with director Ridley Scott, as a producer for Gladiator (2000).
Lustig continued to work as an executive producer and unit production manager for Ridley Scott through 2007.
He married his wife Mirjana in 1970.
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