Milan Marić

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 cooperation 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 breakup 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 Theater2 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 Princip2 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 sword3 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 Marićs photographs pointing to the physical similarity between the Serbian actor and the Russian writer After several rounds of casting he got a role4 Marić learned Russian in three months3 The film was premiered in the main competition program at the Berlin International Film Festival