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Branko Lustig (born June 9 , 1932 ) is a prominent Film Producer . He is the only Croatia n person to have won two Oscar Awards .

Lustig was born in Osijek to a Croatian Jew ish family. During World War II , as a child he was imprisoned for two years in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen .

He received his first Oscar in 1993 for the production of '' Schindler's List '', a film based on the novel of Thomas Keneally (which is, in turn, based on the true-life story of a German manufacturer who saved hundreds of Jews during WW2 ).

He received his second Oscar for the epic movie '' Gladiator '' about a struggle for power in Imperial Rome , in 2001 .


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