Dragan Maksimović

Biography: 

Dragan Maksimovic (Podujevo, February 7, 1949 - Belgrade, February 4, 2001) was a Serbian actor. He died after being attacked by the Nazi skinheads, associated with the groups "Blood and Honour" and the fans called "UnitedForce", who beat him up because he was dark-skinned. On the Green market in Belgrade, at the place where Maksimovic brutally beaten to death, at the initiative of the director Goran Markovic, in 18 November 2006, a memorial plaque has been placed, which was discovered by the mayor of Belgrade, Nenad Bogdanovic. The perpetrators of this murder have still not been brought to justice. Dragan Maksimovic has achieved more than 60 roles in theater, film and television. He made his debut at the National Theatre in Belgrade as a soldier in the play "Mother Courage and Her Children" in 1971. For three decades on the scenes of the theater, he has achieved notable roles in "Sarajevo Assassination" (Nedeljko Čabrinović), "Mandragola" (Fra Bepo), "Britannic" (Nero), "Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky" (Henry Grigorijevič Strawberry) "The Kosovo chronicles" (Avdula), "Fishermen's argument" (Bepo), "The last gold rush" (Cager), "Endgame" (Ham), "A Month in the Country" (Ignatius Ilyich Spigeljski), "trial of Madame Bovary "(Senar)," Long Day's Journey into Night "(Edmund Tyrone)," Maksim Crnojević "(doge of Venice) ...