Dragoslav Bokan
| Dragoslav Bokan | |
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Bokan at the Despot Stefan Lazarević Memorial
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| Born |
15 February 1961 Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Occupation | Film director and writer |
| Spouse(s) | Željka Zdjelar |
| Children | 7 |
Dragoslav Bokan (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгослав Бокан; born 15 February 1961) is a Serbian film director and writer.
Bokan, an ethnic Serb, was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) in 1961. Several of his family members perished at the Jasenovac concentration camp held by the Ustashe, as part of an extermination campaign of Serbs, during World War II. His maternal grandfather and great-grandfather died at Jasenovac.
Bokan graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts at age 22. In 1989, he moved to Port Chester, New York and a year later he returned to Serbia where he joined the Serbian National Renewal party. Bokan was head of the paramilitary section of the party known as the White Eagles before its split. Some White Eagles members were convicted of war crimes and other atrocities, but not those under Bokan's command.
In the early 1990s he worked for the Belgrade publishing company BIGZ and wrote for Pogledi. In 1992, he founded and led the Serbian Fatherland Association party and ran for the presidency of Serbia in the 1992 Serbian general election. The party became defunct however in 1993. In an interview with The New York Times in April 1994, he was quoted as saying, "I don't believe in democracy because I don’t believe that any group at any time can change the course and goals of their ancestors."
Bokan was interviewed in the 1995 BBC documentary series The Death of Yugoslavia. A part of his interview from this series appears at the end of the Death in June song, "Lullaby to a Ghetto". In 2007, he created the Kosovo is Serbia billboard campaign with quotes from Willy Brandt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, John F. Kennedy, and George Washington.
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