Celebrity Biographies
Goran Paskaljevic
He was considered the most important filmmaker in Serbia, and by extension in the Balkans, with titles like “The Powder Keg.” Goran Paskaljevic passed away on September 25, 2020, at the age of 73. at the residence in Paris, as revealed by the Serbian newspaper Kurir and the Tanjug news agency, without revealing details about the circumstances of his death.
Born in Belgrade, on April 22, 1947, Goran Paskaljević graduated from the Prague Film School (FAMU). Back in the former Yugoslavia, he debuted as a filmmaker with the 1969 documentary Pan Hrstka , which was banned by the communist regime. Despite everything, he lavished himself on fiction, with feature films such as A Baywatch in Winter (1976), The Dog Who Loved Trains (1977) and The Flow of Earthly Days (1979).
He established himself internationally with A Time for Miracles , which in 1990 won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Critics’ Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Thanks to this award, he would achieve greater international repercussion for his following works: Argentine Tango (1992), The Other America (1995), A Winter Night’s Dream (2004), Optimists (2006), Honeymoons (2009), At Birth the day (2012) and Land of the Gods (2016). In 2008 he had been named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France.
Vladimir Paskaljevic was married to Christine Gentet, with whom he lived halfway between Belgrade and the French capital. Their son, Vladimir Paskaljevic, has followed in his father’s footsteps as a director, with titles such as the fiction feature Djavolja varos .