Dragan Maksimović Explained

Dragan Maksimović
Birth Date:1949 2, mf=yes
Birth Place:Podujevo, FPR Yugoslavia (modern Kosovo)
Death Place:Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia (modern Serbia)
Death Cause:Beaten to death
Resting Place:Bežanija Cemetery, Belgrade
Occupation:Actor
Years Active:1971–2001

Dragan Maksimović (Serbian: Драган Максимовић; 7 February 1949 – 4 February 2001) was a Serbian actor.

Biography

Maksimović (nicknamed Maks) 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 the play Mother Courage and her Children, 1971.

On 18 November 2000, Maksimović was attacked in the Zeleni Venac neighbourhood, in day-time, by a group of FK Rad supporters (after their team lost a match against FK Obilić), who assumed he was Romani. He died on 4 February 2001 in 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 were never apprehended.[3]

Selected filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
2002The State of the DeadLuka Mandić
1999The DaggerZulfikar
1998The WoundsPatient
1998The HornetAzem
1996Pretty Village, Pretty FlamePetar
1993Byzantine BlueLovokradica
1992The Black BomberPsycho
1992We Are Not AngelsHippie
1989Time of MiraclesLazar
1988The Bizarre CountryPainter
1981The Fall of ItalyRafo
1980Petria's WreathMiša
1979Meetings with Remarkable MenG. I. Gurdjieff

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 14 GODINA OD SMRTI: Dragan Maksimović Maksa zaslužio da dobije svoju ulicu! – Opustise.rs . 2015-06-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304225246/http://www.opustise.rs/tracevi/14-godina-od-smrti-dragan-maksimovic-maksa-zasluzio-da-dobije-svoju-ulicu/ . 2016-03-04 . dead .
  2. Web site: www.glas-javnosti.co.yu.
  3. Web site: Sećanje na Maksu: Glumac kog su ubili huligani.