Dragan Maksimović

Dragan Maksimović

Dragan Maksimović

Maksimović playing Lazar in movie "Time of Miracles"
Born (1949-02-07)February 7, 1949
Podujevo, FPR Yugoslavia
Died February 4, 2001(2001-02-04) (aged 51)
Belgrade, Serbia
Cause of death Beaten to death
Occupation Actor
Years active 1971–2001

Dragan Maksimović (7 February 1949 - 4 February 2001), nicknamed Maks, was a Serbian actor. He was born in Podujevo.

Biography

Dragan performed in more than sixty theatrical plays, movies and TV productions, between 1971 and 1999. His debut was in National Theatre in Belgrade playing Soldier in play "Mother courage and her Children", 1971.

On 17 November, 2000, Maksimović was brutally attacked in Zeleni Venac, in day-time, by a group of FK Rad supporters (after their team lost a match against Obilić), who assumed he was Romani. He died on 4 February 2001 in the hospital.[1][2][3] On the initiative by film director Goran Marković, a commemorative plaque was placed at Zeleni Venac on 18 November 2006.[3] The perpetrators remain at large.[3]

Selected filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2002 The State of the Dead Luka Mandic
1999 The Dagger Zulfikar
1998 The Wounds Patient
1998 The Hornet Azem
1996 Pretty Village, Pretty Flame Petar
1993 Byzantine Blue Lovokradica
1992 The Black Bomber Psycho
1992 We Are Not Angels Hippie
1989 Time of Miracles Lazar
1988 The Bizarre Country Painter
1981 The Fall of Italy Rafo
1980 Petria's Wreath Misa
1979 Meetings with Remarkable Men G. I. Gurdjieff

References

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