--- name: "Branko Lustig" canonical: "https://film.one/person/branko-lustig" fi1m_id: "branko-lustig" imdb_id: "nm0527322" tmdb_id: 930 wikidata_id: "Q703611" roles: ["Producer"] born: "10 June 1932" died: "14 November 2019" reviewed_on_fi1m: 4 average_fi1m_score: 72 average_as: "producer" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-23T04:07:29.574350+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Branko Lustig ## Identity Branko Lustig - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/branko-lustig - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** branko-lustig - **IMDb ID:** nm0527322 - **TMDB ID:** 930 - **Wikidata ID:** Q703611 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branko_Lustig, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q703611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0527322/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/930 Producer. Born 10 June 1932 in Osijek, Croatia, Yugoslavia. Died 14 November 2019. ## Details - **Work:** Producer - **Born:** 10 June 1932, Osijek, Croatia, Yugoslavia - **Died:** 14 November 2019 - **Active:** 1971–2001 - **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 acting, 3 producing - **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscars (2 won) - **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as producer, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 77 (1), 1990s 91 (1), 2000s 69 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 65 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Genres:** Drama 3, Action 1, Adventure 1, Crime 1, Romance 1, Thriller 1 - **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $901m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branko_Lustig, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q703611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0527322/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/930 ## Streaming the US now - **Hulu:** [*Gladiator*](https://film.one/film/gladiator.md) (84) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019) was a Croatian film producer. Born in Osijek, then in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he survived imprisonment in the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps during the Second World War. He began working in the film industry in the mid-1950s as a production manager and later served as location manager on *Fiddler on the Roof* (1971). Lustig moved to the United States in 1988. He produced *Schindler's List* (1993) for Steven Spielberg, appearing in a cameo role, and shared the Academy Award for Best Picture. He won a second Oscar as producer of Ridley Scott's *Gladiator* (2000). Other credits include producer or executive producer on *The Peacemaker* (1997), *Hannibal* (2001), *Black Hawk Down* (2001), *Kingdom of Heaven* (2005) and *American Gangster* (2007). He was married to Mirjana Lustig and died in Zagreb, Croatia. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.* ## On Fi1m (4) ### Performed in (1) - *Schindler's List* (1993), Fi1m 91, as Nightclub Maitre D' — [page](https://film.one/film/schindlers-list.md) ### Produced (3) — the average rests on these - *Hannibal* (2001), Fi1m 54, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/hannibal.md) - *Gladiator* (2000), Fi1m 84, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/gladiator.md) - *Fiddler on the Roof* (1971), Fi1m 77, Location Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/fiddler-on-the-roof.md) ## Complete filmography (25) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Branko: Return to Auschwitz* (2013), Actor - *American Gangster* (2007), Executive Producer - *A Good Year* (2006), Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager - *Kingdom of Heaven* (2005), Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager - *Black Hawk Down* (2001), Executive Producer, Unit Production Manager — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/black-hawk-down.md) - *Hannibal* (2001), Executive Producer — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/hannibal.md) - *Gladiator* (2000), Producer, Unit Production Manager — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/gladiator.md) - *The Peacemaker* (1997), as Man with Poodle · Producer - *Schindler's List* (1993), as Nightclub Maitre D' · Producer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/schindlers-list.md) - *Intruders* (1992), series, Producer - *Wedlock* (1991), Producer - *Death Merchants* (1991), Producer - *War and Remembrance* (1988), series, Associate Producer - *The Great Escape II: The Untold Story* (1988), First Assistant Director - *Memed My Hawk* (1984), as Prison Guard - *The Rat Savior* (1976), First Assistant Director - *Anno Domini 1573* (1975), as Bringer of the execution crown · Production Manager - *Score* (1973), Production Manager - *Fiddler on the Roof* (1971), Location Manager — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/fiddler-on-the-roof.md) - *Operation Snafu* (1970), Production Manager - *An Event* (1969), Executive Producer - *Mit Karl May im Orient* (1963), series, as Onbaschi - *Kozara* (1962), as U oči ranjeni Njemac - *As the Sea Rages* (1959), Unit Manager - *The White Warrior* (1959), Unit Manager ## Gallery - ![Andreas Maislinger und Branko Lustig beim 2nd Annual Dinner des LA Museum of the Holocaust (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/82270/gallery-587d76b498e8.jpg) Andreas Maislinger und Branko Lustig beim 2nd Annual Dinner des LA Museum of the Holocaust (2011) — Andreas_Maislinger_and_Branko_Lustig_at_the_LAMOTH_2nd_Annual_Dinner_(2).jpg: Jörg Reitmaier. Original uploader was Joerg reitmaier at de.wikipedia derivative work: --Liberal Freemason (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Andreas_Maislinger_and_Branko_Lustig_at_the_LAMOTH_2nd_Annual_Dinner-LF.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Andreas Maislinger und Branko Lustig beim 2nd Annual Dinner des LA Museum of the Holocaust (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/82270/gallery-40630f1ed3e7.jpg) Andreas Maislinger und Branko Lustig beim 2nd Annual Dinner des LA Museum of the Holocaust (2009) — Jörg Reitmaier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Andreas_Maislinger_and_Branko_Lustig_at_the_LAMOTH_2nd_Annual_Dinner.jpg/1280px-Andreas_Maislinger_and_Branko_Lustig_at_the_LAMOTH_2nd_Annual_Dinner.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Branko Lustig](https://film.one/media/person/82270/gallery-20de40db07c7.jpg) Branko Lustig — Andreas_Maislinger_and_Branko_Lustig_at_the_LAMOTH_2nd_Annual_Dinner_(2).jpg: Jörg Reitmaier. Original uploader was Joerg reitmaier at de.wikipedia derivative work: Regi51 (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Branko_Lustig_%282009%29-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![JCC Ljubljana](https://film.one/media/person/82270/gallery-e7642b6dbd4c.jpg) JCC Ljubljana — ROBERT WALTL, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Holocaust_survivor_Branko_Lustig%2C_President_of_Slovenia_Borut_Pahor.jpg/1280px-Holocaust_survivor_Branko_Lustig%2C_President_of_Slovenia_Borut_Pahor.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 2 won - 2001: Best Picture (won), for *Gladiator* - 1994: Best Picture (won), for *Schindler's List* ### Other awards — 1 won, 2 nominated - honorary citizen of Osijek 2004: honorary citizen of Osijek (won) - European Film Award for Best Non-European Film 2000: European Film Award for Best Non-European Film (nominated), for *Gladiator* - Krešo Golik Award 2000: Krešo Golik Award (nominated) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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