Praise To The Hand – old b/w documentary about violin making

Screen play and direction by Bogdan Žižić, production by Zagreb film, 1968.

Ivan Hus (1898 - 1992) was a well-known Croatian violin maker. Not much is known about his life. During the WWI he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army, and later went to Germany, where he worked in one of numerous musical instrument factories in Markneukirchen and learned the violin making craft. After arriving in Zagreb in 1922, he made a living playing violin and making mandolins and tamburitzas. He didn’t stay long in Zagreb and until 1932 he wandered across the World. In France, he joined the French Foreign Legion and ended up in Djibouti, from where he escaped to the Far East as an illegal passenger on the ship. It happened that the captain was his compatriot who employed him as a sailor on the ship, but soon he disembarked at the Orient and began to deal with the trade business. Finally, in 1932, via Naples and Dubrovnik he returned to Zagreb where he would live and work until his death in 1992.

According to the known data, Ivan Hus made a total of 112 violins and 2 violas.

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