Dragan Bjelogrlić

Dragan Bjelogrlić
Born	Dragan Bjelogrlić 10 October 1963 (1963-10-10) (age 48) Opovo, SFR Yugoslavia
Other names	Bjela
Spouse	Maja Bjelogrlić (1996 - present)
Website
http://cobrafilm.com/bjelogrlic/

Dragan Bjelogrlić (Драган Бјелогрлић) (born on 10 October 1963 in Opovo, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian actor.

Career

Simultaneous to moving from Opovo to Belgrade to continue his studies, 14-year-old Bjelogrlić also debuted in movies playing a memorable role of Sava Jovanović Sirogojno in Boško Buha, a 1978 film that achieved sizable popularity.^{[citation needed]} He followed that up in the coming years with other roles in TV series, short, and feature films.

By mid-1980s, Bjelogrlić was an established young actor in SFR Yugoslavia. In 1985 he appeared in Bal na vodi as part of an ensamble cast of his peers such as Srđan Todorović, Nebojša Bakočević, Goran Radaković, and Gala Videnović.

In 1987, he became one of the central cast members on the hugely popular drama television series Bolji život. Playing the role of Boba Popadić made Bjelogrlić a bona fide recognizable star all across the country.

He is considered somewhat of a "Serbian Robert Redford", by many.^{[citation needed]} His monotone voice and tired face leads him to be cast as a gangster or criminal figure in movies such as Rane (The Wounds), where he plays a hot-headed Serbian mafioso, with a short temper that only Dragan Bjelogrlić could provide for the movie that's considered one of the cult Serbian gangster movies, especially it being with a focus on the Yugoslav Wars . His brother Goran Bjelogrlić is a film producer. His 2010 film Montevideo, God Bless You! has been selected as the Serbian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.^[1]

Filmography

His roles include:

• Vratiće se rode (2007–2008) — Ekser — The Storks Will Return (English title)
• Ivkova slava (2005) — Kalca
• Potera za Srec(k)om (2005) — Don
• Heroji za jedan dan (2005) — Brat
• Sivi kamion crvene boje (2004) — Švabo
• Kajmak in marmelada (2003) — Goran — Cheese and Jam (English title)
• Ledina (2003) — Dragan — Bare Ground (English title)
• Nataša (2001) — Aca — Natasha (English title)
• Mliječni put (2000) — Milky Way (English title)
• Rat uživo (2000) — Sergej — War Live (English title)
• Nebeska udica (1999) — Toza — 'Sky Hook (English title)
• Rane (1998) — Ludi Kure — The Wounds (English title)
• Kupi mi Eliota (1998) — Antonije Kostić
• Balkanska pravila (1997) — Božidar "Boža" Pesić — Balkan Rules (English title)
• Lepa sela lepo gore (1996) — Milan — Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (English title)
• Dva sata kvalitetnog programa (1994) (TV) — Armane
• Gnjurac (1993) (V) — Radovan Popović
• Pun mesec nad Beogradom (1993) — Aleksa — Full Moon Over Belgrade (English title)
• Crni bombarder (1992) — Crni bombarder — The Black Bomber (English title)
• Bolji život (1987-1988-89) — Slobodan Boba Popadic
• Boško Buha (1978) — Sava Jovanović Sirogojno

See also

• Cinema of Serbia

References

1. ^ "Serbia submits their popular 'Montevideo Bog te video'". blic.rs. http://www.blic.rs/Kultura/Vesti/274390/Montevideo-Bog-te-video-srpski-kandidat-za-Oskara. Retrieved 2011-08-31. 

Persondata
Name	Bjelogrlic, Dragan
Alternative names
Short description	Actor, film director
Date of birth	10 October 1963
Place of birth	Opovo, SFR Yugoslavia
Date of death
Place of death