Dušan Kovačević

Writer

July 12, 1948 (77 years)

Mrđenovac, Šabac

Biography

Dušan Kovačević is a Serbian playwright, scriptwriter and film director who is best known for his theatre plays and movie scripts. His movies are some of the most well known in the former Yugoslavia.

Filmography

7.7

Underground

Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslav Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation.

8.8

Once Upon a Time There Was a Country

Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslavian Civil War of the 1990s as Marko sees the opportunity to exploit the situation. An extended television version of Emir Kusturica's Palme d'Or winning Underground.

7.7

Balkan Spy

Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to an absurd and destructive chain of events.

7.6

Who's Singin' Over There?

On Saturday, 5 April 1941, one day before the Invasion of Yugoslavia of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a colourful group of random passengers on a country road deep in the heart of Serbia board a dilapidated bus, headed for the capital Belgrade. The group includes two gypsy musicians, a World War I veteran, a Germanophile, a budding singer, a sickly looking man, and a hunter with a shotgun. The bus is owned by Krstic senior, and driven by his impressionable and dim-witted son Misko.

7.6

The Professional

Till recently a University professor, a bohemian writer, a member of Belgrade's intellectual circles and a passionate opponent of the Milosevic's regime meets the man, unknown to him, but who knows every tiny detail of his life. Man tells him a story and plot unfolds unimaginably.

7.5

The Heroes of Halyard

A story inspired by the largest single rescue mission of downed Allied airmen behind enemy lines in aviation history of all time, codenamed “The Halyard Mission”. This action took place in the summer of 1944. It was led by the Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland that was headed by General Dragoljub “Draža” Mihailović. It was at great cost and sacrifice that the Serbian people saved 508 American and other Allied countries’ airmen from certain death, sending them off to safety from the improvised airfield in the Serbian village of Pranjani, at the foot of Mt Suvobor.

5.3

Special Treatment

Dr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening to Wagner's music and psychodrama, a group of six patients have been taken to visit the brewery where there is a problem of alcoholism in the workplace.

7.6

The Marathon Family

The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.

6.7

The Tragic Burlesque

In a way of protesting for inhuman living conditions and the shortage of medications caused by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its sanctions, a doctor in a hospital decides to close his clinic for mental illness. His wish is to return the patients to their homes or give them to someone who is willing to accept them temporarily.

6.0

St. George Shoots the Dragon

Love triangle story between the village gendarme Đorđe, his wife Katarina and the young disabled war veteran Gavrilo during the time between First Balkan War and World War I.

7.6

Meeting Place

During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.

7.0

Thief's Comeback

The plot follows two elderly convicts who return home after serving a multi-year sentence and face the challenges of life at large.

8.3

The Professional

A stage play by Dušan Kovačević which tells the story of a successful manager of a publishing company that gets an unexpected visit in his office from a stranger who claims to be a former secret agent.

4.0

Heads or Tails

A village fella tries to make it big in the city.

7.7

Stardust

A comedy about divorce, Balkan style. Marko and Jelena are separating from their spouses so that they can get married. When they do, they realize that they made a mistake, so they meet secretly with their former companions.

1.0

It's Not So Bad to Be Human

Milan is ex-piano teacher. One day, he walks through the park, and he makes a special kind of friendship with one dog. This friendship will decide fate of more then 20 people.

5.0

Beasts

A pretty girl arrives on a small island on a dark and stormy night. She becomes an excuse for the turbulence and evil that occurs when one man forgets his dignity and becomes a beast.

N/A

Spring in January

The drama "Spring in January" is a story about families who started hiding in underground chambers during the Nazi occupation of Belgrade. With the help of adventurous profiteer Mark, they produce weapons for the resistance movement. This work continues even after the war, because their "benefactor" releases fictitious reports on German victories in order to maintain underground production and continue to get rich. Marko manages to convince his best friend Crni (Black) to stay hidden in the basement so that he can keep Natalia for himself, the woman they both love. After twenty years, Crni finds a way out into the "upper world". Although it is 1961, Crni believes that the Nazis are still in power because they managed to make a film showing the German occupation.

9.4

Radovan the Third

A war between two families, who live in the same building.

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