Matjaž Klopčič Explained

Matjaž Klopčič
Birth Date:	4 December 1934
Birth Place:	Ljubljana, Slovenia
Death Place:	Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupation:	Film director Screenwriter
Yearsactive:	1963–1996

Matjaž Klopčič (4 December 1934  - 15 December 2007)^[1] was a Slovenian film director and screenwriter. He directed 28 films between 1959 and 2005. His film Heritage (sl|Dediščina) was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.^[2] Many of his films starred Polde Bibič.

He was the son of the poet Mile Klopčič, and the nephew of the Communist activist and historian France Klopčič.

Selected filmography

• On the Sunny Side of the Street (1959), (short)
• The Widowhood of Karolina Zasler (1976)
• Heritage (1984)
• My Dad, the Socialist Kulak (1987)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Umrl je režiser Matjaž Klopčič . 30 January 2013. rtvslo.
2. Web site: Festival de Cannes: Dediscina . 28 June 2009 . festival-cannes.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121002065233/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1137/year/1985.html . 2 October 2012.