
Acting
Dragan Maksimović
Born — Died
1949-02-07 — 2001-02-04
Place of birth
Podujevo, Serbia
Known for
Acting
Credits
49 titles
Known for
7.5An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Ulysses' Gaze
1995
8.7"The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV miniseries, that was very popular in former Yugoslavia, originally airing in 1974. Due to its popularity, Radio Television of Serbia has shown reruns of the series ten times, the last re-run starting in 2012. The series has achieved something of a cult status among its audience and still attracts an estimated 3 million viewers with its last rerun. Idea of series derives from exploits of freedom fighters in Belgrade during World War II, and all the characters and events are fictitious.
The Written Off
1974
7.9In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
1996
8.2Dealing with his customers with an open heart a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal the beauty and other human misery. (Six episodes in total)
Stories from the Workshop
1982
4.9The search for the everlasting blue paint from Byzantine church murals turn into a sensual love story in which Europe meets the Balkans.
Byzantine Blue
1993
7.2This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
The Wounds
1998
Film credits
1990s · 13 titles
7.5An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Ulysses' Gaze
1995
7.9In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
1996
4.9The search for the everlasting blue paint from Byzantine church murals turn into a sensual love story in which Europe meets the Balkans.
Byzantine Blue
1993
7.2This film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
The Wounds
1998
7.5Angel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.
We Are Not Angels
1992
6.3In a near-future Belgrade, a DJ stirs up trouble with his rocking anti-establishment broadcasts. After his station is shut down, he takes to the street and starts transmitting revolution with the police hot on his trail.
The Black Bomber
1992
6.8A love story between a Serbian girl and young Albanian set against the background of current Balkanic conflict.
The Hornet
1998
6.4In the suburban environment of 1960s Belgrade, thieves and vagabonds were first who escaped from poverty, while simple individuals who believed in ideals, paid a costly price for their misconceptions. Life is very difficult to a family of a pilot who spent 14 years in prison on the basis of false testimony. Her husband's prosecution is his wife's fate, while his daughter doesn't even know that her father is alive. After many migrations and wanderings, the mother meets a soft-spoken yet unscrupulous man who'll promise her marriage, and rape her daughter. The mother eventually ends up at asylum, and the father returns from prison at the right time to help their daughter in life which crucial lessons she already mastered.
The Little One
1991
10.0Dink Tucaković's short horror film with gothic elements
Bernisa, jača od smrti
1990
6.4In attempt to find out who he is and where his roots lie, Alija Osmanović discovers something far deeper and more important. He slowly discovers an evil that follows him as his destiny regardless of what his ancestors were called. Trying to find the reasons for this evil, he finds himself in a vicious circle. Running away from an irrational fear within him, he eventually finds the road to his faith.
The Knife
1999
10.0The father of young boy discovers his wife's secret after a minor injury his son sustained, which showed him having a different blood group than that of his parents.
Ivan
1996
8.0In a rough time, Serbian people in Belgrade travel by a streetcar and serious things happen in a comic way.
Desire Named Streetcar
1994
8.0The action takes place in the village where the master Milun tries to use the servant Sreja and his knowledge “to play nicely on the harps” which is well paid and to make a contract with him to Sreja's detriment, all with the help of village fraudsters, his faithful tricksters.
The Musician
1998
1980s · 22 titles
10.0Theatre adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s timeless drama first published in 1901, about narrow-mindedness, exclusivism, containing one’s self in some arbitrary, imaginary borders, strict divisions… All these traits help to define the various situations and human relations within the text.
The Petty Bourgeois
1983
8.0In Skopje in 1939 a family of a disabled bricklayer clashes over tradition, patriarchal morality and modern world views as fascism and World War II loom on the horizon.
Wild Flesh
1982
6.1A story of a young man from the suburb, who gets his experience on the street and in bars. His girlfriend belongs to the same environment. When he goes to army, she tries to get away, giving the only thing she has - her good looks. She poses nude for some magazine. Seeing that photo, the young man escapes from the army, demanding an explanation. His return to a place where he once belonged, causes questioning of himself, discussions with so-called friends, and finally with the girl...
Hotshot
1986
9.0A Belgrade TV adaptation of the 17the century Slavic folk ballad, which relates that following a battle, whilst lying wounded, Hassan-aga summons his wife Fatima, who was unwilling to accompany him to the battlefield.
Hassan-Aga's Wife
1983
8.0A TV drama based on work by Welsh writer Dylan Thomas.
Rhiannon
1984
5.3The story of an outsider who spent seven years in prison for robbery. Eternal rebel, unsatisfied with the system and people around him.
The Last Lap at Monza
1989
8.0Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988
9.0A village handball team gets close to the promotion to the top flight, but three of its residents try to ensure the success by bribing the referee.
Indian Mirror
1985
5.8The setting is the islands off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, during WW II. The islands are controlled by occupying Italian forces, and a resistence movement of Communists is dedicated to sabotaging and ending the occupation. When a wealthy young man joins the resistence, he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a spy for the Italians. As a result of his liaison and her activity, they are both executed by a Communist comrade - a previous friend. The comrade is dedicated to the hard-line policies of the resistence, until he himself falls in love with the daughter of a bourgeois landowner on the island - a landowner who has collaborated with the Italians. Neither the Italian occupying army (one officer is shown in an attempted rape scene) nor the resistence fighters are stereotyped forces for good or evil, but all are equally subject to the dehumanizing effects of war.
The Fall of Italy
1981
5.6After spending 20 years in America, aging widower Marko Sekulovic (Karl Malden) returns to his Yugoslavian homeland to take care of his two young grandchildren. But Marko's quiet life is in for a shake up when he meets the pretty new village schoolteacher, Lana (Jodi Thelen). Malden pays tribute to his Yugoslav heritage in this affecting 1982 drama.
Twilight Time
1982
Three intertwined stories about Serbian truck driver who is involved into drug trafficking without knowing, Czech family who live by the road which makes them a lot of troubles since many cars crash into their house, and a bus full of Swedish grannies who go on a Trans-European package holiday.
Swedish Package Holiday
1989
6.3Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, to become like his rival across the street which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.
Sixth Gear
1981
8.0Rade is in love with Milica, but her father Marko, a village butcher, does not approve. He wants his son to finish school and leave the village. Marko buys a sick cow from Milica's father, puts a false stamp on it, and sells the meat as if it were healthy. Rade finds out that his father has been doing this for a long time, and so he comes into conflict with him.
Scenes from a Life
1980
6.0A man dies in a foreign land. On his deathbed he asks his son to bury his bones in his fatherland, a country of brave and honest people, a country of tragic but heroic past. His son wonders the world unsuccessfully looking for his father's home. He eventually finds the country in which people speak in his father's language, but everything else is absurd and unbelievable and does not fit his father's stories.
The Bizarre Country
1988
8.0Bosnian Franciscan monk is put into an infamous prison in Istanbul. There he witnesses the sad destiny of a young Ottoman scholar.
The Damned Yard
1984
5.3An imposter and thief called Dumpling escapes prison and arrives to a respectable institute of doctor Strukl in Balm Sanatorium. The doctor is a specialist for reduction and gaining of weight, and wanted by many celebrities, especially because it is known that he has specialized in Switzerland. Dumpling, discovering that he is physically similar to doctor, and seeing his big chance in it, disables the doctor and takes his place at the sanatorium.
Fat and Thin
1985
9.0A joint venture of Yugoslav police and reporters in their effort to track down the members of criminal gang who steal artworks and sell them in Austria.
The Place of Meeting: Belgrade
1987
6.0Young American actor comes to Yugoslavia to star in co-production film of the two countries, only to find out that the director was mysteriously killed. Later he discovers that the reason was his involvement in the white slavery trade.
The Other Man
1988
7.0An acknowledged and proven factory worker gets fired after workers' strike.
The Worker's Life
1987
7.1This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life with three men she loved. Her life, torn between dreams and reality, is a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope and love.
Petria's Wreath
1980
7.5A film about an incident in the last war when a gypsy girl sacrifices herself for her lover, a partisan who has deserted.
Eight Kilos of Happiness
1980
6.1September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the frescoes miraculously return. A stranger comes to town and works miracles; the townsfolk are convinced he is the Messiah. Director Paskaljevic cut his TV miniseries, based on the novel by Borislav Pekic, to feature film length.
Time of Miracles
1989
1970s · 11 titles
6.7The story of G.I. Gurdjieff and his travels to achieve enlightenment and inner growth. Beginning with his childhood, the movie follows his journeys through Central Asia as he discovers new levels of spirituality through music, dance and near-encounters with death.
Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979
A 1974 Serbo-Croatian language drama film written and directed by Paolo Magelli, starring Branislav Jerinić, Rastko Tadic and Miodrag Andrić (Ljuba Moljac).
One Fine, Fine Day
1975
8.0The main character of this TV drama is a musician and prominent citizen Dimkovic who wants to stay out of the war. Only when his daughter’s life becomes threatened does he hesitate, but his actions come too late.
Mister Dimkovic
1979
Yugoslavia, 1979. Jugoslav is an ambitious reporter in a state that strictly controls the media. Blagoje is a retired UDBE colonel, crippled by health problems. Their paths cross when they both go to investigate a brutal murder case in eastern Serbia. In the picturesque surroundings, Jugoslav meets Blagoje's children, his son Aljoša, a dissident hermit, and his daughter Sonja, the widow of a crime victim and a local femme fatale.
The Trail
1974
The reconstruction of assassination of Milorad Draskovic, then-minister of internal affairs in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, that took place on July 21, 1921 in Delnice, Croatia. This TV drama uses authentic recordings from the trial that resulted in death by hanging of Alija Alijagic, the man who shot one of the government's chief ministers.
Why Did Alija Alijagic Shoot
1974
TV adaptation of the Bora Stankovic drama, the most staged play in the history of Serbian theatre. Set in the southern Serbian town of Vranje, it is a tragedy about a Gypsy singing girl destined to marry but not for love. The old man Mitke loves her beauty and singing, but doesn't love her as a woman. Her talent and free spirit reminds him of his youth, young age and all he had to sacrifice for loveless marriage and unhappiness in order to fit into conventions.
Koshtana
1976
9.0Careless lives of few Belgrade youths are shattered when Nazis occupy their town in 1941. Soon they join the resistance movement and their activities bring their names to Gestapo's termination list. This movie inspired the series that would get cult status in former Yugoslavia.
The Written Off
1974
9.0Moliere himself gave a prototype of a morally consistent and uncompromising person who is thus in conflict with the whole world. Miroslav Karaulac’s drama tries to portray the character of one such misanthrope as he might look in our milieu.
Free Translation of The Misanthrope
1974
8.0A man under investigation is held under arrest in a prison cell with seven other men. Three simultaneously operated cameras were used to film in a real prison cell.
Under Investigation
1977
5.7Small village farmers grow tobacco which they are forced to sell to the government for next-to-nothing prices. This repeats with Italians during the WW2, and with the communists after the war. Boiling point is getting high.
Burning
1979
10.0It shows the inclusion of a backward country in the age of technical progress with all the doubts, dilemmas and contradictions that arise in such crucial moments. It was made on the basis of authentic parliamentary records and memoirs, as well as records from the satirical press of that time.
First Serbian Railway
1979
Series credits
8.7"The Written Off" is a famous Serbian TV miniseries, that was very popular in former Yugoslavia, originally airing in 1974. Due to its popularity, Radio Television of Serbia has shown reruns of the series ten times, the last re-run starting in 2012. The series has achieved something of a cult status among its audience and still attracts an estimated 3 million viewers with its last rerun. Idea of series derives from exploits of freedom fighters in Belgrade during World War II, and all the characters and events are fictitious.
The Written Off
1974
8.2Dealing with his customers with an open heart a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal the beauty and other human misery. (Six episodes in total)
Stories from the Workshop
1982

