Ante PeterliÄ (18 May 1936 ā 12 July 2007) was a Croatian film scholar, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his film Accidental Life (Croatian: Slucajni zivot, 1969), his debut feature film. PeterliÄ was a prominent young film critic, and a professor of film theory at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. In the 1960s, he directed his first short TV drama, and was active