Goran Marković ( sr-cyr, Горан Марковић, ) (born 24 August 1946) is a

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and theatre director,

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, writer, and

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. He has directed approximately 50 documentaries, 13 feature films, and 3 theatre plays. He has also written five books. Marković is one of the few directors from the former Yugoslavia credited with popularizing Yugoslav films, as well as achieving success domestically and internationally.

Career

Marković was born in

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and

Olivera Marković Olivera Marković ( née Đorđević; sr-cyr, Оливера Марковић; 3 May 1925 – 2 July 2011) was a Serbian actress. She appeared in 170 films and television shows between 1946 and 2005. She won the Golden Arena for Best Actress ...

, both established Serbian actors. He finished 5th Belgrade Gymnasium prior to attending FAMU at the

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. Marković is the winner of more than 30 Yugoslavian, Serbian, and international

and theatre awards, the most significant of them being two

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festival "Zlatna arena" awards, an award for the best director at the San Sebastian Film Festival for the film '' Tito and Me'', Grand Prix of Americas at the Montreal World Film Festival for the movie ''Kordon'' and ''Sterija's Award'' for the best modern drama text for the

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"Turneja". The film version of ''Turneja'' won both "Best Film" and "Best Scenario" at the 2009 European Film Festival in Kyiv as well as Best Director and the

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awards at the Montreal World Film Festival. A consistent opponent of the government of

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, Marković expressed his political stance in three post-1995 documentary films produced or co-produced with Radio B92: ''Crazy People'' (1997), ''Ordinary Heroes'' (2000) and ''Serbia, Year Zero'' (2001). Marković was also a professor at

Faculty of Dramatic Arts and is a member of the European Film Academy in Brussels. In 2017, Marković has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs,

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and Montenegrins.Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language
official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.

Filmography

Feature films

Documentaries

* ''Neobavezno'' (1970), TV series documentary in two installments * ''Glumci'' (1973), TV series documentary in two installments * ''Junaci'' (1976), TV series documentary in five installments * ''Poludeli ljudi'' (1997) * ''Nevažni junaci'' (1999) * ''Serbie, année zéro'' (2001) * ''Konstantin Koča Popović'' (2014) * ''Mnoštvo i manjina'' (2017)