Bahrudin 'Bato' Čengić
Bahrudin "Bato" Čengić (7 January 1931 – 16 October 2007) was a Bosnian screenwriter and film director who was active in Yugoslavia. Čengić was born in 1931, although some sources give 7 January 1933 as the date of birth. During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Čengić filmed over 1,000 minutes of the Siege of Sarajevo, which he converted in a documentary "essay" called Sarajevo. He appeared in the 2007 documentary Zabranjeni bez zabrane. Čengić died in Sarajevo on 16 October 2007, aged 76.
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1931-01-07
- Died
- 2007-10-16
Known for
- The Twelve Chairs (1970) — Assistant Director
- The Return (1966) — Second Unit Cinematographer
- Silent Gunpowder (1990) — Director
- Playing Soldiers (1967) — Director
- Days (1963) — Assistant Director
- The Role of My Family in the World Revolution (1971) — Director
- Censored without Censorship (2007) — Himself (archive footage)
- Heads or Tails (1983) — Director
- Life of a Shock Force Worker (2023) — Director
- Jagosh and Blacky (1976) — Director
- The Man Without a Face (1961) — Writer
- Man with a Watch (1981) — Writer
- Sighting of the Holy Mother in the Village of Grabovica (1985) — Director
- The Bite (1979) — Director
- Scenes from the Life of BH Film (2022) — Self (archive footage)
- Pula Confidential (2003) — Himself