 During the 1970s, he directed the TV series "Salaš u malom ritu" (1976), a war drama set in Vojvodina, one of the most memorable works of Yugoslav television.During the 1950s and 1960s, Bauer was regarded as a master of Yugoslav cinema and commanded respect from the government and his colleagues alike.Although his films never questioned the regime, the dominant set of values in these films was described as "old-fashioned" and "bourgeois"