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Srđan Vuletić

Bosnian film director

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Source revisionAug 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ7586613 ↗
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Srđan Vuletić (born 1971) is a Bosnian filmmaker.

Personal life

Vuletić was born in Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina and attended school in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the age of eighteen he enrolled the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, dept. of directing, where he directed three plays: Pirandelo's The Naked Life, Ionesco's The Leader and Buchner's Woyczek, as well as a number of student films and exercises.

The 1992-1995 war in Bosnia interrupted his editing of the documentary The Orthodox Church. In the war he joined a hospital crew as a medical technician, an experience that later inspired his film I Burnt Legs. Also, during the war he produced documentary film about eight Sarajevo artists and the exhibition they held during this period and which was later to become the official Bosnian entry to the 45th Venice Biennale.

Career

Vuletić directed the award-winning film "Hop, Skip, and Jump" (Troskok) in 1999 and his first feature-length movie, "Summer in the Golden Valley" ("Ljeto u Zlatnoj Dolini") in 2003.

Filmography

Ljeto u zlatnoj dolini (2003)

It’s Hard to be Nice (2007)

Otter (2025) It competed at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival on 16 August.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Srđan Vuletić” as bosnian film director. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1992, 1995, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Srđan, Vuletić and Bosnian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as bosnian film director. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7586613. VIAF identifies the subject as 10092045. The Library of Congress control number is no2006020928. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971, 1992, 1995 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Srđan Vuletić” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.