Dragan Maksimović

Dragan Maksimović
Maksimović as Lazar in Time of Miracles.
Born	(1949-02-07)7 February 1949 Podujevo, FPR Yugoslavia (modern Kosovo)
Died	4 February 2001(2001-02-04) (aged 51) Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia (modern Serbia)
Cause of death	Beaten to death
Resting place	Bežanija Cemetery, Belgrade
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1971–2001

Dragan Maksimović (Serbian Cyrillic: 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. On the initiative by film director Goran Marković, a commemorative plaque was placed at Zeleni Venac on 18 November 2006. The perpetrators were never apprehended.

Selected filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	The State of the Dead	Luka Mandić
1999	The Dagger	Zulfikar
1998	The Wounds	Patient
1998	The Hornet	Azem
1996	Pretty Village, Pretty Flame	Petar
1993	Byzantine Blue	Lovokradica
1992	The Black Bomber	Psycho
1992	We Are Not Angels	Hippie
1989	Time of Miracles	Lazar
1988	The Bizarre Country	Painter
1981	The Fall of Italy	Rafo
1980	Petria's Wreath	Miša
1979	Meetings with Remarkable Men	G. I. Gurdjieff

External links

• Dragan Maksimović at IMDb