Goran Marković ( sr-cyr, Горан Марковић, ) (born 24 August 1946) is a Serbianfilm and
theatre
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writer
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, and playwright. 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.
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and Olivera Marković, both established Serbian actors. He finished 5th Belgrade Gymnasium prior to attending FAMU at the
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
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.
Marković is the winner of more than 30 Yugoslavian,
Serbia
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theatre
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awards, the most significant of them being two Pula festival "Zlatna arena" awards, an award for the best director at the San Sebastian Film Festival for the film ''
Tito and Me
''Tito and Me'' ( sr, Тито и ја, ''Tito i ja'') is a 1992 Yugoslav comedy film by Serbian director Goran Marković.
Plot
The movie is set in communist-ruled Yugoslavia during the 1950s. Zoran is an overweight 10-year-old living in an overc ...
'', Grand Prix of Americas at the
Montreal World Film Festival
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for the movie ''Kordon'' and ''Sterija's Award'' for the best modern drama text for the
theatre play
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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
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as well as Best Director and the Fipresci awards at the Montreal World Film Festival.
A consistent opponent of the government of Slobodan Milošević, 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 Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts and is a member of the
European Film Academy
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in
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.
In 2017, Marković has signed the
Declaration on the Common Language
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of the
Croats
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,
Serbs
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Montenegrins
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Genetics
Accordi ...
* ''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)