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Igor Zidić: Are We Alive?
2026·1h 30m·★ 0.0
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After five years, Croatian art historian and author Igor Zidić finally finished writing his monumental biography of the Croatian painter Vlaho Bukovac, but, immediatley turns his gaze onto a new potentially promising piece, a biography of yet another Croatian painter, Imanuel Vidović. However, the journey he decides to take whilst writing said book will not only be a journey through time and space, but also a personal one, as Zidić reconnects with his own childhood self and realizes why he fell in love with writing once again.
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Light commitment · 1h 30m
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