 Bauer became one of the most respected directors in Yugoslavia after his third film, the 1956 war thriller "Don't Look Back, My Son" ("Ne okreći se sine"; released as "Don't Turn Around, Son" in the US).The film tells a story about a World War II resistance fighter who escapes a train en route to the Jasenovac concentration camp and returns to Zagreb in an attempt to find his son and join the partisans in the Croatian hinterland.However, he realises that his son is in an Ustaša boarding school and has been brainwashed.