Dragan Maksimović

Dragan Maksimović

Nascimento : 1949-02-07, Podujevo, Serbia

Morte : 2001-02-04

Perfil

Dragan Maksimović

Filmes

The State of the Dead
Luka Mandić
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.
The Knife
Zulfikar
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.
The Wounds
Pacijent
This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
The Hornet
Azem
A love story between a Serbian girl and young Albanian set against the background of current Balkanic conflict.
Bela Aldeia, Bela Chama
Petar, profesor
O ano é 1980. Halil, um muçulmano, e Milan, um sérvio, são amigos na Iugoslávia. Os dois meninos cresceram juntos. Eles moravam perto de um túnel inacabado, o Túnel da União e da Fraternidade, que deveria ligar Belgrado à Zagreb, servindo como símbolo da Iugoslávia unida. Doze anos depois, estoura a guerra da Bósnia e ambos agora encontram-se em lados opostos.
Desire Named Streetcar
Sveštenik
In a rough time, Serbian people in Belgrade travel by a streetcar and serious things happen in a comic way.
Byzantine Blue
Lovokradica
A busca pela tinta azul eterna dos murais de igrejas bizantinas transforma-se numa história de amor sensual em que a Europa se encontra com os Balcãs. Baseado numa história de Milorad Paviæ, o internacionalmente aclamado autor de "The Dictionary of os khazares"
The Black Bomber
Psiho
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.
We Are Not Angels
Hipik
Angel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.
The Little One
Kosta
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.
Time of Miracles
Lazar
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.
The Last Lap at Monza
Crni
The story of an outsider who spent seven years in prison for robbery. Eternal rebel, unsatisfied with the system and people around him.
The Other Man
Petrović
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.
The Bizarre Country
Slikar
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.
The Worker's Life
Faruk
An acknowledged and proven factory worker gets fired after workers' strike.
The Place of Meeting: Belgrade
Boško Satara
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.
Hotshot
Beli
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...
Fat and Thin
Drug Klisura
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.
Indian Mirror
Laza Laser
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.
Twilight Time
Tony
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.
The Fall of Italy
Rafo
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.
Sixth Gear
Bogoljub
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.
Petria's Wreath
Miša
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.
Scenes from a Life
Rade
A TV drama.
Eight Kilos of Happiness
A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a partisan who has deserted.
Meetings with Remarkable Men
G.I. Gurdjieff
The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
Burning
Luka
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.
Kostana
Asan
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.
Why Did Alija Alijagic Shoot
Alija Alijagić
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.