Before World War II, Pogačić studied art history at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Between 1945 and 1947 he worked as a screenwriter and director at Radio Zagreb (present-day Croatian Radio) and as a director at the Zagreb student theatre, where he directed a local production of Señora Carrar's Rifles in 1947, the first-ever work by Bertolt Brecht staged in Yugoslavia) [REF].