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.
