Goran Marković (, ) (born 24 August 1946) is a Serbian film and theatre director, screenwriter, writer, 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.
Career Marković was born in Belgrade 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, Serbian, and international film and theatre 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, 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 theatre play "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 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).Daniel J. Goulding, "Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001", 189.
Marković was also a professor at Belgrade 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, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language, official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.
Filmography
Feature films Year Film Director Writer Producer Awards / Notes1977Special Education1979National Class Category Up to 785 ccm1980Majstori, majstori1982Variola Vera1985Taiwan Canasta1987ReflectionsBig Golden Arena for Best Film1989The Meeting PointAudience and critics award at Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival, Big Golden Arena for Best Film1992Tito and MeSilver Seashell award at San Sebastián International Film Festival1995Urnebesna tragedijaBest Director award at Montréal World Film Festival2002KordonGrand Prix des Amériques at Montréal World Film Festival2008The TourAudience Award at Thessaloniki Film Festival2013Falsifier2016A Stowaway on the Ship of FoolsTV film in II parts and a theatre release2019Delirijum tremensStatueta Sloboda at SOFEST
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)
See also Praška filmska škola
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