Goran Marković

Goran Marković (Serbian: Горан Марковић) (born August 24, 1946, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian movie and theatre director. He was born in Belgrade to Rade and Olivera Marković, well known Serbian actors. He had finished 5th Belgrade Gymnasium , and after that FAMU at Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. To date, he has directed about 50 documentaries, 11 movies and 3 theatre plays. He works as a movie screenplay writer and playwright (10 film screenplays and 3 theatre plays), and has written three books. His latest film is "Turneja" based on his own theatre play, expected to premiere in 2008.

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, award for the best director on San Sebastian Film Festival (movie "Tito and Me"), of Montreal World Film Festival (movie "Kordon") and "Sterija's Award" for the best modern drama text for the theatre play "Turneja".

Marković is also a professor at Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts and is a member of European Film Academy in Brussels. He is divorced, and has no children.

He cited his favorite film is The Party , directed by Blake Edwards.

Partial filmography

* "Variola Vera" (1982)
* "Već viđeno" (1987)
* "Sabirni centar" (1989)
* "Tito i ja" (1992)
* "Turneja" (2008)

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