Bahrudin 'Bato' Čengić

Directing · 76 years old

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.