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Dragoslav Bokan,
film director and writer,
contributor and honourable member of the Urban Book Circle
film director and writer,
contributor and honourable member of the Urban Book Circle
Dragoslav Bokan (Serbia, 1961) is a Serbian film director and writer.
Dragoslav Bokan was born in the Savski Venac area of Belgrade on 15 February 1961 to Serb parents Ilija and Milka (née Devetak). Several of his family members (including his maternal grandfather and great-grandfather) were killed at the Jasenovac concentration camp by the Ustashe, as part of an extermination campaign of Serbs during World War II.
Bokan graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at age 22. In 1988, Bokan initiated the publishing and Serbian language translation of On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle. In 1989, he directed three episodes on Visoki Dečani as part of the documentary series Svedoci vekova (Witnesses of the Centuries) produced by the broadcasting service RTB. Later that year, he moved to Port Chester, New York and a year later he returned to Serbia.
In the early 1990s he worked for the Belgrade publishing company BIGZ and wrote for Pogledi. In 1992, he founded and led the Serbian Fatherland Association party and ran for the presidency of Serbia in the 1992 Serbian general election. The party however became defunct in 1993. Bokan was an uncredited screenwriter for the 1993 film Three Tickets to Hollywood.
Bokan was interviewed in the 1995 BBC documentary series The Death of Yugoslavia. A part of his interview from this series appears at the end of the Death in June song, "Lullaby to a Ghetto". In 2007, he created the Kosovo is Serbia billboard campaign with quotes from Willy Brandt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, John F. Kennedy, and George Washington.
Bokan founded the Nase ideje, Lepa Srbija, Rusija danas and Vodic za zivot magazines, and is a contributor to the Urban Book Circle (Canada).
Published books
Dragoslav Bokan was born in the Savski Venac area of Belgrade on 15 February 1961 to Serb parents Ilija and Milka (née Devetak). Several of his family members (including his maternal grandfather and great-grandfather) were killed at the Jasenovac concentration camp by the Ustashe, as part of an extermination campaign of Serbs during World War II.
Bokan graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at age 22. In 1988, Bokan initiated the publishing and Serbian language translation of On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle. In 1989, he directed three episodes on Visoki Dečani as part of the documentary series Svedoci vekova (Witnesses of the Centuries) produced by the broadcasting service RTB. Later that year, he moved to Port Chester, New York and a year later he returned to Serbia.
In the early 1990s he worked for the Belgrade publishing company BIGZ and wrote for Pogledi. In 1992, he founded and led the Serbian Fatherland Association party and ran for the presidency of Serbia in the 1992 Serbian general election. The party however became defunct in 1993. Bokan was an uncredited screenwriter for the 1993 film Three Tickets to Hollywood.
Bokan was interviewed in the 1995 BBC documentary series The Death of Yugoslavia. A part of his interview from this series appears at the end of the Death in June song, "Lullaby to a Ghetto". In 2007, he created the Kosovo is Serbia billboard campaign with quotes from Willy Brandt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, John F. Kennedy, and George Washington.
Bokan founded the Nase ideje, Lepa Srbija, Rusija danas and Vodic za zivot magazines, and is a contributor to the Urban Book Circle (Canada).
Published books
- Ognjeni ljiljani (1998)
- Portret mladog dendija (2000)
- Junaci srpskog ustanka (2004)
- Beograd, grad tajni (2004)
- Novi Sad: Od varosi do grada (2005)
- Kosovo je srce Srbije (2008)
- Politika: Mit, hronika, enciklopedija (2008)
- Srbija na prvom mestu (2022)
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Last updated on September 7, 2022.
Published by Urban Book Circle on July 5, 2013 Urban Book Circle® (UBC) |
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