Dragan Maksimović

Dragan Maksimović

Born: February 7, 1949
Died: February 4, 2001
in Podujevo, Serbia

Movies for Dragan Maksimović...

The State of the Dead
Title: The State of the Dead
Character: Luka Mandić
Released: July 25, 2002
Type: Movie
When the war in Yugoslavia breaks out, an army officer who's ethnic Slovenian yet still believes in Yugoslavia, decides to move to Belgrade. The country continues to fall apart and so does his family failing to find acceptance there.
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The Knife
Title: The Knife
Character: Zulfikar
Released: March 19, 1999
Type: Movie
In attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanović discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers an evil that follows him as his destiny regardless of what his ancestors were called. Trying to find the reasons for this evil, he finds himself in a vicious circle. Running away from an irrational fear within him, he eventually finds the road to his faith.
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The Musician
Title: The Musician
Character: Kapetan Vučeta
Released: December 7, 1998
Type: Movie
The action takes place in the village where the master Milun tries to use the servant Sreja and his knowledge “to play nicely on the harps” which is well paid and to make a contract with him to Sreja's detriment, all with the help of village fraudsters, his faithful tricksters.
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The Wounds
Title: The Wounds
Character: Pacijent
Released: May 27, 1998
Type: Movie
This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
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The Hornet
Title: The Hornet
Character: Azem
Released: April 6, 1998
Type: Movie
A love story between a Serbian girl and young Albanian set against the background of current Balkanic conflict.
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Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Title: Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
Character: Petar, profesor
Released: May 11, 1996
Type: Movie
In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
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Ivan
Title: Ivan
Character: Građevinac
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
The father of young boy discovers his wife's secret after a minor injury his son sustained, which showed him having a different blood group than that of his parents.
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Desire Named Streetcar
Title: Desire Named Streetcar
Character: Sveštenik
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
In a rough time, Serbian people in Belgrade travel by a streetcar and serious things happen in a comic way.
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Byzantine Blue
Title: Byzantine Blue
Character: Lovokradica
Released: July 16, 1993
Type: Movie
The search for the everlasting blue paint from Byzantine church murals turn into a sensual love story in which Europe meets the Balkans.
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The Black Bomber
Title: The Black Bomber
Character: Psiho
Released: June 15, 1992
Type: Movie
In a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.
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We Are Not Angels
Title: We Are Not Angels
Character: Hipik
Released: May 30, 1992
Type: Movie
Angel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.
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The Little One
Title: The Little One
Character: Kosta
Released: November 1, 1991
Type: Movie
In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ideals, paid a costly price for their misconceptions. Life is very difficult to a family of a pilot who spent 14 years in prison on the basis of false testimony. Her husband's prosecution is his wife's fate, while his daughter doesn't even know that her father is alive. After many migrations and wanderings, the mother meets a soft-spoken yet unscrupulous man who'll promise her marriage, and rape her daughter. The mother eventually ends up at asylum, and the father returns from prison at the right time to help their daughter in life which crucial lessons she already mastered.
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Bernisa, jača od smrti
Title: Bernisa, jača od smrti
Character: Bernisin muž
Released: July 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Dink Tucaković's short horror film with gothic elements
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Time of Miracles
Title: Time of Miracles
Character: Lazar
Released: April 1, 1989
Type: Movie
September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the frescoes miraculously return. A stranger comes to town and works miracles; the townsfolk are convinced he is the Messiah. Director Paskaljevic cut his TV miniseries, based on the novel by Borislav Pekic, to feature film length.
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The Last Lap at Monza
Title: The Last Lap at Monza
Character: Crni
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The story of an outsider who spent seven years in prison for robbery. Eternal rebel, unsatisfied with the system and people around him.
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The Other Man
Title: The Other Man
Character: Petrović
Released: December 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Young American actor comes to Yugoslavia to star in co-production film of the two countries, only to find out that the director was mysteriously killed. Later he discovers that the reason was his involvement in the white slavery trade.
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The Bizarre Country
Title: The Bizarre Country
Character: Slikar
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A man dies in a foreign land. On his deathbed he asks his son to bury his bones in his fatherland, a country of brave and honest people, a country of tragic but heroic past. His son wonders the world unsuccessfully looking for his father's home. He eventually finds the country in which people speak in his father's language, but everything else is absurd and unbelievable and does not fit his father's stories.
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The Worker's Life
Title: The Worker's Life
Character: Faruk
Released: June 17, 1987
Type: Movie
An acknowledged and proven factory worker gets fired after workers' strike.
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The Place of Meeting: Belgrade
Title: The Place of Meeting: Belgrade
Character: Boško Satara
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A joint venture of Yugoslav police and reporters in their effort to track down the members of criminal gang who steal artworks and sell them in Austria.
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Hotshot
Title: Hotshot
Character: Beli
Released: July 25, 1986
Type: Movie
A story of a young man from the suburb, who gets his experience on the street and in bars. His girlfriend belongs to the same environment. When he goes to army, she tries to get away, giving the only thing she has - her good looks. She poses nude for some magazine. Seeing that photo, the young man escapes from the army, demanding an explanation. His return to a place where he once belonged, causes questioning of himself, discussions with so-called friends, and finally with the girl...
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Fat and Thin
Title: Fat and Thin
Character: Drug Klisura
Released: June 17, 1985
Type: Movie
An imposter and thief called Dumpling escapes prison and arrives to a respectable institute of doctor Strukl in Balm Sanatorium. The doctor is a specialist for reduction and gaining of weight, and wanted by many celebrities, especially because it is known that he has specialized in Switzerland. Dumpling, discovering that he is physically similar to doctor, and seeing his big chance in it, disables the doctor and takes his place at the sanatorium.
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Indian Mirror
Title: Indian Mirror
Character: Laza Laser
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A village handball team gets close to the promotion to the top flight, but three of its residents try to ensure the success by bribing the referee.
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The Damned Yard
Title: The Damned Yard
Character: Valija
Released: December 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Bosnian Franciscan monk is put into an infamous prison in Istanbul. There he witnesses the sad destiny of a young Ottoman scholar.
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Twilight Time
Title: Twilight Time
Character: Tony
Released: April 1, 1982
Type: Movie
After spending 20 years in America, aging widower Marko Sekulovic (Karl Malden) returns to his Yugoslavian homeland to take care of his two young grandchildren. But Marko's quiet life is in for a shake up when he meets the pretty new village schoolteacher, Lana (Jodi Thelen). Malden pays tribute to his Yugoslav heritage in this affecting 1982 drama.
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Title: Stories from the Workshop
Character: Bogoljub
Released: January 6, 1982
Type: TV
Dealing with his customers with an open heart a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal the beauty and other human misery. (Six episodes in total)
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The Fall of Italy
Title: The Fall of Italy
Character: Rafo
Released: July 7, 1981
Type: Movie
The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resistence movement of Communists is dedicated to sabotaging and ending the occupation. When a wealthy young man joins the resistence, he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a spy for the Italians. As a result of his liaison and her activity, they are both executed by a Communist comrade - a previous friend. The comrade is dedicated to the hard-line policies of the resistence, until he himself falls in love with the daughter of a bourgeois landowner on the island - a landowner who has collaborated with the Italians. Neither the Italian occupying army (one officer is shown in an attempted rape scene) nor the resistence fighters are stereotyped forces for good or evil, but all are equally subject to the dehumanizing effects of war.
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Sixth Gear
Title: Sixth Gear
Character: Bogoljub
Released: July 3, 1981
Type: Movie
Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, to become like his rival across the street which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.
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Petria's Wreath
Title: Petria's Wreath
Character: Miša
Released: February 22, 1980
Type: Movie
This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life with three men she loved. Her life, torn between dreams and reality, is a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope and love.
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Scenes from a Life
Title: Scenes from a Life
Character: Rade
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A TV drama.
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Eight Kilos of Happiness
Title: Eight Kilos of Happiness
Character: Dezerter
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a partisan who has deserted.
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Meetings with Remarkable Men
Title: Meetings with Remarkable Men
Character: G.I. Gurdjieff
Released: August 5, 1979
Type: Movie
The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
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Mister Dimkovic
Title: Mister Dimkovic
Character: Islednik OZNE
Released: March 19, 1979
Type: Movie
The main character of this TV drama is a musician and prominent citizen Dimkovic who wants to stay out of the war. Only when his daughter’s life becomes threatened does he hesitate, but his actions come too late.
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Burning
Title: Burning
Character: Luka
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Small village farmers grow tobacco which they are forced to sell to the government for next-to-nothing prices. This repeats with Italians during the WW2, and with the communists after the war. Boiling point is getting high.
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Koshtana
Title: Koshtana
Character: Asan
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
TV adaptation of the Bora Stankovic drama, the most staged play in the history of Serbian theatre. Set in the southern Serbian town of Vranje, it is a tragedy about a Gypsy singing girl destined to marry but not for love. The old man Mitke loves her beauty and singing, but doesn't love her as a woman. Her talent and free spirit reminds him of his youth, young age and all he had to sacrifice for loveless marriage and unhappiness in order to fit into conventions.
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Title: The Written Off
Character: Simke
Released: December 22, 1974
Type: TV
"The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV series, that was very popular in former Yugoslavia, originally airing in 1974. Due to its popularity, Radio Television of Serbia has shown reruns of the series ten times, the last re-run starting in 2012. The series has achieved something of a cult status among its audience and still attracts an estimated 3 million viewers with its last rerun. Idea of series derives from exploits of freedom fighters in Belgrade during World War II, and all the characters and events are fictitious.
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Why Did Alija Alijagic Shoot
Title: Why Did Alija Alijagic Shoot
Character: Alija Alijagić
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
The reconstruction of assassination of Milorad Draskovic, then-minister of internal affairs in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, that took place on July 21, 1921 in Delnice, Croatia. This TV drama uses authentic recordings from the trial that resulted in death by hanging of Alija Alijagic, the man who shot one of the government's chief ministers.