Season 1 • Episode 7
LatestA biopic of an influential Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher. Svetozar Markovic developed an activist anthropological philosophy with a definite program of social change, which set foundations for socialist ideals in his homeland.
Acting
Lazar Ristovski burns with conviction in every frame.
Production
Painstaking 19th-century Serbia recreated with scholarly obsession.
Lazar Ristovski
Svetozar Marković
Petar Božović
Jevrem Marković
Bogdan Diklić
Pavle Mihailović
Dušan Janićijević
Milivoj Blaznavac
Milan Štrljić
Nikola Pašić
Petar Kralj
Vladimir Jovanović
Jelisaveta Sablić
Ilka Marković
Branislav Lečić
Đura Ljocić
Predrag Ejdus
Aleksa Knežević
Branko Pleša
Jovan Ristić
Rade Marković
Dimitrije Matić
Branko Cvejić
Milan Obrenović
Aljoša Vučković
Mita Cenić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Marković founded Serbia's first socialist newspaper and was exiled three times—this production was controversial in Yugoslavia for not making him a communist saint.
Director Eduard Galić spent six years securing funding; state television initially rejected it as 'too niche' for a figure every Serbian schoolchild supposedly learns about.
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