Acting
Jul 30, 1990
Belgrade, Yugoslavia [now Serbia]
Milan Marić
Acting
Biography
Milan Marić was born in 1990 in Belgrade, Serbia (then SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia). He appeared on stage as a teenager in the youth theater DADOV, and then entered the Faculty of Dramatic Art. His cinematic debut was in the short film Thursday (2010), the diploma work of director Nikola Ljuce. He followed the television film New Chance and the role of Koki in the series The Scent of Rain in the Balkans (2011). He made another co-operation with Nikola Ljuk acting in his short film Sergeant (2012), in which Miloš Timotijević was his screen partner. In 2014, Milan appeared in the dramatic ensemble of the drama From Paupers to Princes about the break-up of Yugoslavia and the new heroes of society. In parallel with the film career, he also debuted in professional theaters, acting in the plays Behind the Bars (Krusevac Theater, 2011), Workers Dying Singing (Bitef Theater, 2011), Suspicious Face (Yugoslav Drama Theatre, 2012) and in controversial piece presented by Zoran Djindjic (Atelje 212, 2013). After graduating in the class of Biljana Mašić in 2013, he became a permanent member of the Yugoslav Drama Theater.[2] On the centenary of the World War I celebration in 2014, he participated in three performances about the Young Bosnia and the Sarajevo assassination: portrayed Gavrilo Princip in the play Little is my grave by Biljana Srbljanović, Danilo Ilić in the play Zmajeubica by Milena Markovic and in the film The Man Who Defended Gavrilo Princip.[2] The following year, there followed the supporting roles in the films Humidity, A Good Wife and Santa Maria della Salute, where he portrayed king Milan I of Serbia. In 2018, he played young Vukan Nemanjić in the television series Nemanjić Family - the Birth of the Kingdom. For the purpose of shooting, he learned to ride and to fight with the sword.[3] In the same year, the Russian film Dovlatov premiered, a biopic about the life of Russian writer Sergei Dovlatov, in which he played the main role. Marić was recommended by actress Danijela Stojanović for the role, who worked with director Alexei German Jr. on his previous film. She showed Marić's photographs pointing to the physical similarity between the Serbian actor and the Russian writer. After several rounds of casting, he got a role.[4] Marić learned Russian in three months.[3] The film was premiered in the main competition program at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Feature Films (14)
Based on the novel of Arsen Diklić which describes the horrors of concentration camp Jasenovac.
The Children of Kozara
Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
Dovlatov
An energetic and vibrant tale of two inner-city kids going to a party in a nearby town and getting into trouble with the locals. This night will change his life in coming of age drama about fears, idols and love.
You Look Awesome When I'm Fucked Up
Three generations - three different microcosms - are entangled in circle. They were all looking for love but ended up experiencing aggression and escape from reality.
Pavilions
Bogdan and Svetlana come from two different layers of a rotten social system. By chance, they run into each other in her wealthy villa. They are both unhappy with their lives, and they start a complex relationship that is from the start condemned to exist only inside the vacuum the villa provides.
Life Lasts Three Days
Nikola’s children are taken away from him after social services decide that he is too poor to provide them with a decent living environment. He sets off on foot to lodge a complaint in Belgrade.
Father
Television & Series (11)
Trials and tribulations of a Jewish family from Sarajevo during turbulent times between 1914 and 1945.
Scent of Rain in the Balkans
The story takes place around 2001, which follows the last 48 hours of Slobodan Milošević's life together with his family at large until his arrest and subsequent extradition to The Hague.
The Family
The tumultuous life, fantastic career, and volatile relationships of the legendary Yugoslav singer Toma Zdravkovic. The series follows the highs and lows of the famous bohemian and 'king of sorrow' that inspired his unique, timeless music.
Toma
The story of the fate of boys and girls who go to school on the day of the Victory of Fascism on May 9, 1945. The script is based on true events and tells the fate of the children of the victorious and vanquished in a common environment at the end of World War II in Serbia.
Hide-and-Seek
This is a modern and exciting story about BIA agents in Belgrade who eliminate the most dangerous threats to Serbia behind the eyes of the public on a daily basis and lead the struggle in the labyrinth of domestic and foreign intrigues.
