Mladen Juran (born 8 May 1942) is a Croatian film director, screenwriter and actor - the author of the first and rare films of independent Croatia in the official competition of world festivals "A" category and the nominations (The main prize in Latin America, The Melies d'Or Award - the Best European Fiction Film), Oscar Academy Awards Candidate - films thematic related to roots and emigration, rebellion - an individual in the whirlpool of unfavorable and surreal social events, organized crime, love, loneliness, fate, the existential measure of everyone’s life, whether that life in monumental, ordinary, null or simply human - with debuting in French cinema, recorded in "Histoire du cinéma français 1966-1970", on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of French cinema.