Vladimir Herzog, known as Vlado, was a Brazilian journalist, professor, and filmmaker. He was born on June 27, 1937, in Osijek, Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia). After spending some time in Italy, he emigrated to Brazil with his parents in 1942. Raised in São Paulo, he later became a naturalized Brazilian citizen. Herzog studied Philosophy at the University of São Paulo (USP) and began his journalism career in 1959 at the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo. At the time, he felt that his birth name, Vlado, didn’t sound natural in Portuguese, so he adopted the name Vladimir. In the early 1960s, he married Clarice Herzog.