 In the late 1970s his works were rediscovered by young critics as a kind of a Yugoslav version of old Hollywood masters.Slovenian film historian Stojan Pelko wrote in the British Film Institute's "Encyclopedia of Russian and Eastern European Cinema" that "Bauer was for Yugoslav critics what Hawks and Ford were for French New Wave critics".A substantial critical reevaluation of Bauer's work took place since the mid-1980s.