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Dušan Kovačević is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer born on 12 july 1948
Dušan Kovačević (en serbe cyrillique : Душан Ковачевић ; se prononce Douchane Kovatchévitch ; né le 12 juillet 1948 à Mrđenovac) est un écrivain, dramaturge, scénariste et diplomate serbe. Il est membre de l'Académie serbe des sciences et des arts.
Ses écrits sont très populaires en Serbie et Kovačević devient membre correspondant de l'Académie serbe des sciences et des arts en 2000 puis membre de plein droit en 2009. Peu de pièces de Kovačević ont été traduites en français et ses œuvres ne sont disponibles au public anglophone que depuis le milieu des années 1990.
Kovačević a écrit, à partir de sa pièce Proleće u januaru (Printemps en janvier), le scénario du film Underground réalisé par Emir Kusturica. Underground a remporté la Palme d'or au Festival de Cannes 1995.
À partir du Professionnel, pièce écrite en 1990, l'écriture de Kovačević abandonne le réalisme et se tourne vers l'absurde.
Kovačević se décrit comme royaliste, soutenant le retour des Karađorđević sur le trône de Serbie. Il fait partie du conseil de la Couronne d'Aleksandar Karađorđević. De juin 2005 à octobre 2006, il a été ambassadeur de Serbie à Lisbonne.
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Birth 12 july 1948 (75 years)
Biography
Kovačević étudia au lycée de Novi Sad, puis reçut un diplôme de la Faculté des arts dramatiques de l'université des arts de Belgrade en 1973. À sa sortie de l'université et pendant 5 ans, il travailla comme dramaturge pour TV Beograd, la télévision de la ville de Belgrade. Entre 1986 et 1988, il dirigea la Faculté des arts dramatiques. Depuis 1998, Kovačević est le directeur artistique du Zvezdara teatar (théâtre étoilé). En 2003, il réalisa son premier film (basé sur sa pièce) Profesionalac (Le Professionnel).Ses écrits sont très populaires en Serbie et Kovačević devient membre correspondant de l'Académie serbe des sciences et des arts en 2000 puis membre de plein droit en 2009. Peu de pièces de Kovačević ont été traduites en français et ses œuvres ne sont disponibles au public anglophone que depuis le milieu des années 1990.
Kovačević a écrit, à partir de sa pièce Proleće u januaru (Printemps en janvier), le scénario du film Underground réalisé par Emir Kusturica. Underground a remporté la Palme d'or au Festival de Cannes 1995.
À partir du Professionnel, pièce écrite en 1990, l'écriture de Kovačević abandonne le réalisme et se tourne vers l'absurde.
Kovačević se décrit comme royaliste, soutenant le retour des Karađorđević sur le trône de Serbie. Il fait partie du conseil de la Couronne d'Aleksandar Karađorđević. De juin 2005 à octobre 2006, il a été ambassadeur de Serbie à Lisbonne.
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Filmography of Dušan Kovačević (8 films)
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The Professional (2003)
, 1h44Directed by Dušan Kovačević
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Branislav Lečić, Bora Todorović, Nataša Ninković, Sergej Trifunović, Josif Tatić, Miodrag Krstović
Rating83%
Former university literature professor Teodor "Teja" Kraj (played by Branislav Lečić) is now a manager of a big publishing house whose workers are just about to go on strike. During the 1990s Teja was highly involved in overthrowing the regime of Slobodan Milošević. One day a strange man entered his office carrying a big suitcase. Teja was sure this man was a writer when he gave Teja four books ready to be published. After a short conversation Teja found out that these books were actually his. Teja thought this was a joke when stranger finally introduced himself as Luka Laban (played by Bora Todorović), a former officer of State Security. He also found out that Luka followed him for ten years, day after day, in order to make the daily report about his movements. After Luka retired he put all his daily reports together and wrote four books about Teja's movements for last ten years.
Balkan Spy (1984)
, 1h32Directed by Dušan Kovačević
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Danilo Stojković, Bora Todorović, Mira Banjac, Sonja Savić, Predrag Laković, Bata Živojinović
Rating87%
Ilija Čvorović (Bata Stojković), a former Stalinist who spent several years in a prison on Goli otok, is contacted by the police to routinely answer questions about his sub-tenant, Petar Markov Jakovljević (Bora Todorović), a businessman, who spent twenty years living in Paris, and now has returned to Belgrade to open a tailor shop. After only several minutes, Ilija is free to go, however, he is starting to suspect that his sub-tenant might be a spy. As time passes, he becomes convinced that Petar, a modern man from a capitalist country, represents a great threat to national security and the socialist system, and starts spying on Petar, to a great surprise of his wife Danica (Mira Banjac), who is more concerned for the future of their daughter Sonja (Sonja Savić), who, although holding a degree in dentistry, is unable to find a job. Ilija phones inspector Dražić (Milan Štrljić), claiming that Petar was meeting "suspicious people" (which are actually his intellectual friends, but Dražić does not take him seriously. Ilija decides to take matters into his own hands. He begins his own surveillance operation against the innocent man and his friends. Eventually, he bars his house, buys a guard dog, arms himself with munition, and even gets help from his brother Đura (Zvonko Lepetić), both of them becoming convinced that Petar is a foreign agent.
Scriptwriter
St. George Shoots the Dragon (2009)
, 2h30Directed by Srđan Dragojević
Origin Serbie
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Lazar Ristovski, Nataša Janjić, Bora Todorović, Dragan Nikolić, Milena Dravić, Branislav Lečić
Roles Writer
Rating63%
The movie starts with the Kingdom of Serbia, as part of the Balkan League, battling the remaining Turkish occupiers during the First Balkan War in 1912 and ends with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the crucial Battle of Cer, the first allied victory in World War I. It is largely set in and around a small village by the Sava river at Serbia's border with Austria-Hungary.
The Professional (2003)
, 1h44Directed by Dušan Kovačević
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Branislav Lečić, Bora Todorović, Nataša Ninković, Sergej Trifunović, Josif Tatić, Miodrag Krstović
Roles Writer
Rating83%
Former university literature professor Teodor "Teja" Kraj (played by Branislav Lečić) is now a manager of a big publishing house whose workers are just about to go on strike. During the 1990s Teja was highly involved in overthrowing the regime of Slobodan Milošević. One day a strange man entered his office carrying a big suitcase. Teja was sure this man was a writer when he gave Teja four books ready to be published. After a short conversation Teja found out that these books were actually his. Teja thought this was a joke when stranger finally introduced himself as Luka Laban (played by Bora Todorović), a former officer of State Security. He also found out that Luka followed him for ten years, day after day, in order to make the daily report about his movements. After Luka retired he put all his daily reports together and wrote four books about Teja's movements for last ten years.
Underground (1995)
, 2h47Directed by Emir Kusturica
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Miki Manojlović, Mirjana Joković, Lazar Ristovski, Slavko Stimac, Srđan Todorović, Mirjana Karanović
Roles Writer
Rating79%
Underground depicts the life of two friends throughout World War II, Cold War, and the Yugoslav Wars.
Meeting Place (1989)
, 1h38Directed by Goran Marković
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Bogdan Diklić, Dragan Nikolić, Olivera Marković, Danilo Stojković, Mirjana Karanović, Branko Plesa
Roles Writer
Rating81%
An archaeological team, digging in a remote village and led by an old professor, unearths an old Roman artifact, a gravestone bearing some mysterious inscriptions. After realizing that they have stumbled upon something precious, the professor collapses with a heart attack. Seemingly dead for people around him, he finds himself in a sort of afterlife state and realizes that the stone marked a passage into the classical underworld so he starts mingling with the antique spirits of the dead. The spirits themselves appear just as silly and petty as the peasants from the village above them, and in their desire to see what happened to their descendants, they find themselves surprised by the modern world of the living.
Balkan Spy (1984)
, 1h32Directed by Dušan Kovačević
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Danilo Stojković, Bora Todorović, Mira Banjac, Sonja Savić, Predrag Laković, Bata Živojinović
Rating87%
Ilija Čvorović (Bata Stojković), a former Stalinist who spent several years in a prison on Goli otok, is contacted by the police to routinely answer questions about his sub-tenant, Petar Markov Jakovljević (Bora Todorović), a businessman, who spent twenty years living in Paris, and now has returned to Belgrade to open a tailor shop. After only several minutes, Ilija is free to go, however, he is starting to suspect that his sub-tenant might be a spy. As time passes, he becomes convinced that Petar, a modern man from a capitalist country, represents a great threat to national security and the socialist system, and starts spying on Petar, to a great surprise of his wife Danica (Mira Banjac), who is more concerned for the future of their daughter Sonja (Sonja Savić), who, although holding a degree in dentistry, is unable to find a job. Ilija phones inspector Dražić (Milan Štrljić), claiming that Petar was meeting "suspicious people" (which are actually his intellectual friends, but Dražić does not take him seriously. Ilija decides to take matters into his own hands. He begins his own surveillance operation against the innocent man and his friends. Eventually, he bars his house, buys a guard dog, arms himself with munition, and even gets help from his brother Đura (Zvonko Lepetić), both of them becoming convinced that Petar is a foreign agent.
The Marathon Family (1982)
, 1h32Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Bogdan Diklić, Danilo Stojković, Pavle Vuisić, Mija Aleksić, Milivoje Tomić, Zoran Radmilović
Roles Writer
Rating87%
The story takes place in an unnamed small Serbian town in 1935, and focuses on the Topalović family consisting of six generations of undertakers: gravely ill Pantelija, wheelchair-bound Maksimilijan who's also mute and nearly deaf, rheumatic Aksentije, sober-minded Milutin, impulsive and narcissistic Laki, and young and naive Mirko. Constantly bickering amongst each other, the latest family arguments arise from the youngest son, Mirko, not wanting to continue the family business of coffin-making. Deeply in love with a local girl Kristina, the daughter of a local hoodlum Bili Piton, he's looking to avoid the career path of his father, grandfather, great grandfather, etc.
Special Treatment (1980)
, 1h34Directed by Goran Paskaljević
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Ljuba Tadić, Danilo Stojković, Dušica Žegarac, Milena Dravić, Bora Todorović, Bata Živojinović
Roles Pièce de théatre
Rating71%
Who's Singin' Over There? (1980)
, 1h27Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Pavle Vuisić, Dragan Nikolić, Danilo Stojković, Taško Načić, Boro Stjepanović, Aleksandar Berček
Roles Writer
Rating86%
On Saturday, April 5, 1941, one day before the Nazi invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colourful group of random passengers on a country road deep in the heart of Serbia board a dilapidated Krstić & Son bus, headed for the capital Belgrade: two Gypsy musicians, a World War I veteran, a Germanophile, a budding singer, a sickly looking man, and a hunter with a rifle. The bus is owned by Krstić Sr., and driven by his impressionable son Miško.
Producer
St. George Shoots the Dragon (2009)
, 2h30Directed by Srđan Dragojević
Origin Serbie
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Lazar Ristovski, Nataša Janjić, Bora Todorović, Dragan Nikolić, Milena Dravić, Branislav Lečić
Roles Producer
Rating63%
The movie starts with the Kingdom of Serbia, as part of the Balkan League, battling the remaining Turkish occupiers during the First Balkan War in 1912 and ends with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the crucial Battle of Cer, the first allied victory in World War I. It is largely set in and around a small village by the Sava river at Serbia's border with Austria-Hungary.