Đorđe Kadijević was born in 1933 in Šibenik. He graduated in Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Since 1960, he has been in art history and art theory, art criticism, and film and television directing. He is the author of five feature films, six television films, four television series and ten short fiction and documentary films. The Feast (1967), the first film he both wrote and directed, was made in a time when the national cinematography saw partisan films as a genre in its own right. Although the story is set during World War II, there are no Partisans among the protagonists. Kadijević continued his subversive approach to war and occupation in The Trek (1968) and Žarki (1970). Colonel’s Wife (1970) is the last film where he tackles the issue of individual destinies in the chaos of war and disintegration of society. Further in his career, he made mostly television films, usually literary adaptations of local authors, including the adaptation of the epic poem Bolani Dojčin (1972). His period pieces, television film The Death of Karađorđe (1983) and series Vuk Karadžić (1987) shaped the image of great people from national history of the nineteenth century in the minds of a wide television audience. The television  film  The She-Butterfly  (1973), based on  the  prose by Milovan  Glišić,  is considered the first horror film in national cinematography. The film A Holy Place (1990) explores the dark side of sexuality, and Kadijević returns to the genre of horror once again.