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

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and

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director,

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, 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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to Rade and Olivera Marković, both established Serbian actors. He finished 5th Belgrade Gymnasium prior to attending FAMU at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Marković is the winner of more than 30 Yugoslavian,

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n, and international

and

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

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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

Slobodan Milošević Slobodan Milošević ( sr-Cyrl, Слободан Милошевић, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbia between 1989 and 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugos ...

, 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

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. In 2017, Marković has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the

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and

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.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)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Markovic, Goran 1946 births Living people Film people from Belgrade Serbian film directors Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language