What is Ivo Brešan?
[[File:Ivo Brešan 280508.jpg|thumb|Brešan in May 2008]] '''Ivo Brešan''' (27 May 1936 &ndash; 3 January 2017) was a [[Croatia]]n playwright, novelist and screenwriter. He was for known for [[Politics|political]] [[satire]]. He was on screen from the early 1970s to 2006. His work included ''Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja'' (1973), ''How the War Started on My Island'' (1996) and ''Marshal Tito's Spirit'' (1999). He had written screenplays with his son [[Vinko Brešan]]. Brešan was born in [[Vodice, Croatia|Vodice]]. In 2001, he was awarded the [[Vladimir Nazor Award]] for Life Achievement in [[Literature]] Brešan died on 3 January 2017 in [[Zagreb]] at the age of 80.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://vijesti.hrt.hr/368087/umro-ivo-bresan|title=Napustio nas je književni velikan Ivo Brešan|date=3 January 2017|access-date=4 January 2017|language=hr|work=HRT|archive-date=3 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103221331/http://vijesti.hrt.hr/368087/umro-ivo-bresan|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{IMDB name|0107654}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bresan, Ivo}} [[Category:1936 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Croatian screenwriters]] [[Category:European novelists]] [[Category:Playwrights]] [[Category:Yugoslavian writers]] {{Bio-stub}}