Serbian film director and screen writer Srdan Koljevic died at the age of 56 after succumbing to a long and serious illness on Friday night, the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade said on Saturday.
Koljevic had taught at the faculty where he had been trained as a dramatist.
The filmmaker, who was born in Sarajevo in what is today Bosnia and Herzegovina, was involved as a director or scriptwriter in the making of 15 feature films and two documentaries and several television series.
Koljevic received the film prize presented by the German state of Hesse in 2004 for "The Red Coloured Grey Truck" and the main prize at the Zurich Film Festival in 2010 for "The Woman with a Broken Nose."
His film "The Man Who Defended Gavrilo Princip" (2014) dealt with the Sarajevo assassination as a gripping courtroom drama. Princip's assassination attempt on the Austrian heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, is considered the trigger for World War I.
"With the films he directed or for which he wrote scripts, he left behind a body of work that inspired generations and brought them closer to the language of our world," the drama faculty wrote in their obituary.— dpa
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