Dragan Maksimović ( sr-cyr, Драган Максимовић; 7 February 1949 – 4 February 2001) was a Serbian actor.
Biography
Maksimović (nicknamed Maks) performed in more than sixty theatrical plays, movies and TV productions, between 1971 and 1999. His debut was in
National Theatre in Belgrade
The National Theatre ( sr-cyr, Народно позориште, Narodno pozorište) is a theatre located in Belgrade, Serbia.
Founded in the later half of the 19th century, it is located on the Republic Square, at the corner of Vasina and Fra ...
playing Soldier in the play Mother Courage and her Children, 1971.
On 18 November 2000, Maksimović was attacked in the
Zeleni Venac
Zeleni Venac ( sr-cyr, Зелени венац) or colloquially Zelenjak ( sr-cyr, Зелењак) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipalities of Savski Venac (major part) and Stari ...
neighbourhood
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, in day-time, by a group of
FK Rad supporters (after their team lost a match against
FK Obilić
Fudbalski klub Obilić (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Обилић) is a Serbian football club based in Vračar, a neighbourhood of Belgrade. It was named after medieval Serbian hero Miloš Obilić, a legendary 14th-century knig ...
), who assumed he was
Romani
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Ethnicities
* Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia
** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule
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. He died on 4 February 2001 in hospital.
On the initiative by film director
Goran Marković, a commemorative plaque was placed at Zeleni Venac on 18 November 2006.
[ The perpetrators were never apprehended.][
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Selected filmography
References
External links
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1949 births
2001 deaths
People from Podujevo
Kosovo Serbs
Serbian male film actors
People murdered in Serbia
Serbian murder victims
2001 murders in Serbia
Deaths by beating in Europe
Unsolved murders in Serbia
Antiziganism in Serbia