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Vili Matula

Vili Matula is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Vili Matula rather than just read about it. In short: Vilim "Vili" Matula (born 5 March 1962) is a Croatian actor, director, activist, and politician. He serves as a representative in the Croatian Parliament for green left coalition We Can!.

Key takeaways

Vili Matula belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Vili Matula to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Vili Matula from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Vilim "Vili" Matula (born 5 March 1962) is a Croatian actor, director, activist, and politician. He serves as a representative in the Croatian Parliament for green left coalition We Can!. Matula's acting roles include S.P.U.K., Infection, 100 Minutes of Glory, Wallenberg: A Hero's Story, Schindler's List, and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. He works with the Kerempuh Satirical Theatre in Zagreb.

Early life Matula attended elementary and high school in Zagreb and was a member of the Zagreb Youth Theatre college. In 1978, Matula started his own theatre group, "Domaći" before enrolling in the Academy of Dramatic Art in 1980. After graduating in 1985, he joined Zagreb's Comedy Theatre. In 1988, Matula co-founded Zagreb's Acting Studio, intended for developing acting skills with techniques such as the Strasberg Method, the Chekhov Technique, Meyerhold's Biomechanics, and the Alexander Technique. In 1993, Matula attended the Summer Acting Programme at the Royal National Theatre in London. From 1987 to 1997, he was employed in the drama ensemble of the Zagreb Youth Theatre.

Career

Acting In 2000, he participated in the launching of the Boal Forum Theatre by invitation from theatrologist and feminist critic Nataša Govedić. In 2001, Matula started his collaboration with Damir Bartol Indoš and The House of Extreme Music Theatre Group Kugla. In 2008, he appeared in a supporting role in Metastases, for which he won a Marul award and a Croatian Theatre Award. He was nominated for an Apollo Prize at the Belgrade Culture Festival. Matula has appeared in Tranquilizer Gun, Is It Clear, My Friend?, Infection, 100 Minutes of Glory, Long Dark Night, and Šuma summarum. For his role in 100 Minutes of Glory, Matula won Best Supporting Actor at the Pula Film Festival. He has also appeared in productions of Wallenberg: A Hero's Story, Schindler's List, and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (where he played Horatio). His television work includes guest roles on Zakon!, Naša mala klinika, and Žutokljunac. Matula has also filmed and produced television specials and shorts for the Motovun Film Festival. Matula has recorded several hundred radio dramas. His spoken word discography includes reciting works by August Šenoa, Ivan Goran Kovačić, Ante Kovačić, Vladimir Nazor, and Miroslav Krleža. He provided vocals for three songs on the Punk Cabaret album by Stanislav Kovačić. He voiced several characters on the Croatian-American animated film The Elm-Chanted Forest, Chum in the Croatian dub of Finding Nemo (2003), and Sterling in the Croation dub of Cars 3 (2017).

Politics Matula was a member of the League of Communists of Croatia, as well as delegate in the 11th and final convention of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia, which resulted in the first democratic elections in 1989 of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Matula has opposed the Right to the city movement PravoNaGRAD in Zagreb as well as neo-fascism. He's one of the founders of the Actor's Union, of which he was also a president. Matula is a member of the coordinating committee of Zagreb is OURS! (Zagreb je NAŠ!), a progressive citizen platform registered as a green-municipalist party. In the Zagreb municipal elections of 2017, Matula entered as a candidate in the borough council of Donji grad as vice president. His focus included council suppression and corrupt behavior of city authorities. In 2019 he became a founding member of the citizen platform We can! (Možemo!) that formed a green-left coalition for the 2020 parliamentary election. He was elected to the Croatian Parliament with six other members of the coalition. In 2017, Matula signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks, and Montenegrins.

Selected filmography

Television

Film

Awards

1988: Orestija Award for Orestija 1989: Dubravko Dujšin, Veljko Maričić, and Golden Laughter awards for the play Dekadencija 1998: Veljko Maričić, Mila Dimitrijević, Vladimir Nazor, and Croatian Theatre awards for Best Actor and Best Monodrama for "Münchhausen" 2004: Golden Arena for Best Supporting Actor 2008:Marul and Croatian Theatre awards for supporting role in Metastases 2010: Marul and Golden Laughter awards at the Kerempuh Satire Festival for Balon 2010: Orlando Award at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival for lead role in Gogol's Revizor 2019: Apollo Prize and Marul Award for Best Actor in Govori glasnije!

References

External links Vili Matula at IMDb Biography from Kerempuh Satirical Theater

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Vili Matula

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Vili Matula claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Vili Matula before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Vili Matula ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Vili Matula

In research: Vili Matula appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Vili Matula in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Vili Matula is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1962 births, 20th-century Croatian male actors, 21st-century Croatian male actors, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Vili Matula outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Vili Matula in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Vili Matula means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Vili Matula in simple terms?

Vilim "Vili" Matula (born 5 March 1962) is a Croatian actor, director, activist, and politician. He serves as a representative in the Croatian Parliament for green left coalition We Can!.

Why does Vili Matula matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Vili Matula?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Vili Matula.