Matjaž Klopčič

{{short description|Slovenian film director}}

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{{Infobox person

| image = Matjaz Klopcic.JPG

| caption = Klopčič in 2005

| name = Matjaž Klopčič

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|12|4|df=y}}

| birth_place = Ljubljana, Slovenia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|12|15|1934|12|4|df=y}}

| death_place = Ljubljana, Slovenia

| occupation = Film director
Screenwriter

| yearsactive = 1963–1996

}}

Matjaž Klopčič (4 December 1934 – 15 December 2007){{Cite web|url=http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/film/umrl-je-reziser-matjaz-klopcic/153396 |title=Umrl je režiser Matjaž Klopčič |accessdate=30 January 2013|work=rtvslo}} was a Slovenian film director and screenwriter. He directed 28 films between 1959 and 2005. His film Heritage ({{langx|sl|Dediščina}}) was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1137/year/1985.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Dediscina |accessdate=28 June 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002065233/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1137/year/1985.html |archivedate=2 October 2012}} Many of his films starred Polde Bibič.

He was the son of the poet Mile Klopčič, and the nephew of the Communist activist and historian France Klopčič.