---
name: "Dušan Kovačević"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dusan-kovacevic"
fi1m_id: "dusan-kovacevic"
imdb_id: "nm0468169"
tmdb_id: 70877
wikidata_id: "Q929016"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "12 July 1948"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:07:02.735948+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Dušan Kovačević

## Identity

Dušan Kovačević

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dusan-kovacevic
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dusan-kovacevic
- **IMDb ID:** nm0468169
- **TMDB ID:** 70877
- **Wikidata ID:** Q929016
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1an_Kova%C4%8Devi%C4%87, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q929016, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468169/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70877

Writer. Born 12 July 1948 in Mrđenovac, Šabac.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 12 July 1948, Mrđenovac, Šabac
- **Also known as:** Dusan Kovacevic, Душан Ковачевић
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1an_Kova%C4%8Devi%C4%87, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q929016, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468169/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70877

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Underground*](https://film.one/film/underground.md) (66)

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## Biography

Dušan Kovačević is a Serbian playwright, scriptwriter and film director. He was born on 12 July 1948 in Mrđenovac near Šabac. He graduated from the Svetozar Marković Gymnasium in Novi Sad and received a bachelor's degree in dramaturgy from the University of Belgrade in 1973. From 1973 he worked as a dramaturge at TV Beograd for five years. Since 1998 he has been artistic director of Zvezdara teatar in Belgrade.

Kovačević wrote the story and screenplay for *Underground* (1995), directed by Emir Kusturica. He is also known for the screenplays of *Who's Singin' Over There?* (1980) and *The Marathon Family* (1982), and for writing and directing *Balkan Spy* (1984) and *The Professional* (2003). He is a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and served as Serbia's ambassador to Portugal.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Underground* (1995), Fi1m 66, Story, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/underground.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Pavilion* (2025), Co-Producer
- *The Heroes of Halyard* (2023), Writer
- *It's Not So Bad to Be Human* (2021), Director, Writer
- *Spring in January* (2019), Writer
- *The Pearls of the Bojana* (2017), as Mićun
- *St. George Shoots the Dragon* (2009), Producer, Writer
- *The Professional* (2003), Director, Writer
- *Once Upon a Time There Was a Country* (1996), series, Writer
- *Underground* (1995), Story, Screenplay — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/underground.md)
- *The Tragic Burlesque* (1995), Writer
- *The Professional* (1990), Writer, Stage Director
- *Meeting Place* (1989), Writer
- *Balkan Spy* (1984), Director, Writer
- *Heads or Tails* (1983), Dialogue
- *Radovan the Third* (1983), Writer
- *The Marathon Family* (1982), Writer, Screenplay
- *Who's Singin' Over There?* (1980), Writer
- *Special Treatment* (1980), Theatre Play, Screenplay
- *Beasts* (1977), Writer
- *Stardust* (1976), Writer
- *Thief's Comeback* (1975), Writer
- *Requiem for a Heavyweight* (1974), as Dramaturgy

## Gallery

- ![Dušan Kovačević](https://film.one/media/person/86331/gallery-ba4cd9471854.jpg) Dušan Kovačević — Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Du%C5%A1an_Kova%C4%8Devi%C4%87_%28FDU%29.jpg/1280px-Du%C5%A1an_Kova%C4%8Devi%C4%87_%28FDU%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Play Hipnoza jedne ljubavi (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/86331/gallery-a541bca77a05.jpg) Play Hipnoza jedne ljubavi (2018) — Soffkee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Hipnoza_jedne_ljubavi1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Play Hipnoza jedne ljubavi (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/86331/gallery-f696cf7eaf5b.jpg) Play Hipnoza jedne ljubavi (2018) — Soffkee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/IMG-a73e2b567881b61a261847706bef591f-V.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- !["Burlesque Tragedy" by Dušan Kovačević; directed by Maja Grgić; Drama of the Serbian National Theatre, Novi Sad, 2011/12; Aleksandra Pleskonjić, Miodrag Petrovi](https://film.one/media/person/86331/gallery-83720245c548.jpg) "Burlesque Tragedy" by Dušan Kovačević; directed by Maja Grgić; Drama of the Serbian National Theatre, Novi Sad, 2011/12; Aleksandra Pleskonjić, Miodrag Petrovi — Miomir Polzović, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Urnebesna_tragedija%2C_Drama_SNP%2C_Aleksandra_Pleskonji%C4%87%2C_Miodrag_Petrovi%C4%87%2C_foto_M._Polzovi%C4%87.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- !["Burlesque Tragedy" by Dušan Kovačević; directed by Maja Grgić; Drama of the Serbian National Theatre, Novi Sad, 2011/12; Marija Medenica, Mihailo Janketić](https://film.one/media/person/86331/gallery-4be908f8b42c.jpg) "Burlesque Tragedy" by Dušan Kovačević; directed by Maja Grgić; Drama of the Serbian National Theatre, Novi Sad, 2011/12; Marija Medenica, Mihailo Janketić — Miomir Polzović, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Urnebesna_tragedija%2C_Drama_SNP%2C_Marija_Medenica%2C_Mihailo_Janketi%C4%87%2C_foto_M._Polzovi%C4%87.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 2003: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (nominated), for *The Professional*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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