Goran Paskaljević

Regie, Autor, Produzent, Komponist

22. April 1947 — 25. September 2020 (73 Jahre)
Goran Paskaljević was a Serbian and former Yugoslav film director.

Born in Belgrade, he was raised by his grandparents in Niš in southern Serbia, following the divorce of his parents. Fourteen years later he returned to Belgrade where he worked with his stepfather at the Yugoslav Film Archive.

Paskaljević belonged to a group of several Yugoslav filmmakers who studied abroad and graduated from the prestigious Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). After returning to Yugoslavia, he made some 30 documentaries and 16 feature films which were screened at many international film festivals (such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto and San Sebastian) and met with critical acclaim. The rise of nationalism during the breakup of Yugoslavia forced him to leave his country in 1992.

In 1998 he returned to Yugoslavia to make the Powder Keg (known as Cabaret Balkan in the USA) which won the FIPRESCI prize at the Venice Film Festival and at the European Film Awards. In 2001, Variety International Film Guide marked him as one of the world's top five directors of the year. The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) presented a full retrospective of his work in January 2008. It was BFI Southbank's (London) turn to organize in July 2010 a full retrospective of his 16 feature films, along with the publication of a monograph (in English) about his work.

Paskaljević lived between Belgrade and Paris, France and he held both Serbian and French citizenship. As of 2008 he was named Officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

He died on 25 September 2020 in Paris.

Bekannt aus

  • Das Pulverfass
    Das Pulverfass1998
  • Trügerischer Sommer 1968
    Trügerischer Sommer 19681984
  • How Harry Became a Tree
    How Harry Became a Tree2001
  • When Day Breaks
    When Day Breaks2012
  • Paradies Brooklyn
    Paradies Brooklyn1995
  • The Optimists
    The Optimists2006
  • Midwinter Night's Dream
    Midwinter Night's Dream2004
  • Honeymoons
    Honeymoons2009
  • Dämmerung
    Dämmerung1982
  • Nonostante la nebbia
    Nonostante la nebbia2019
  • A.L.F.
    A.L.F.2012