à ½ivko Zalar (born 24 April 1948 in Zagreb) is a Croatian cinematographer, son of Croatian cinematographer Slavko Zalar.
Zalar began making films as an amateur at the Kino Klub Zagreb, before going on to study cinematography at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1968. He graduated in 1973 and made several short films, before shooting his first feature film in 1974, Rajko GrliÃÂ's Whichever Way the Ball Bounces (Kud puklo da puklo), which was originally shot on 16 mm film and later transferred to 35 mm.
After that he shot Kreà ¡o Golik's Violet (Ljubica, 1978), and that same year he won the Golden Arena for Best Cinematography for his work on Rajko GrliÃÂ's Bravo Maestro and SrÃÂan KaranoviÃÂ's Fragrance of Wild Flowers (Miris poljskog cveÃÂa).
His second Golden Arena came in 1983 for Something In-Between and his other notable films in the 1980s and 1990s were Fadil Hadà ¾iÃÂ's The Ambassador (Ambasador, 1984), It takes three for happiness (Za sreÃÂu je potrebno troje, 1985), How the War Started on My Island (Kako je rat poÃÂeo na mom otoku, 1996). In 2003 he won his third Golden Arena for Witnesses (Svjedoci), directed by Vinko Breà ¡an.
After working with many Yugoslav and Croatian directors, Zalar moved to Germany in the late 1990s, where he continued to work on a number of television films, series and documentaries, as well as international feature film co-productions.