Zlatko Vitez (born 22 June 1950 in

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) is a

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n theatre and film actor. He also served as the Croatian

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in the period between October 1994 and November 1995 in the

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. Vitez graduated from the

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in 1972 and went on to appear in about a hundred theatre productions at several prominent theatres, including the Gavella Drama Theatre and the

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. Between the mid-1970s and late 1990s he also appeared in a number of Croatian television and feature films, most notably the leading role in

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's 1985 film ''

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'' (''Ljubavna pisma s predumišljajem'').

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Zlatko Vitez biography
1950 births Living people People from Varaždin Croatian male actors Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb alumni Vladimir Nazor Award winners Culture ministers of Croatia Croatian Democratic Union politicians Croatian actor-politicians {{Croatia-actor-stub