{"id":4843,"date":"2023-09-07T08:12:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T08:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studioartspot.com\/dev\/slavic\/?p=4843"},"modified":"2025-09-05T08:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:13:10","slug":"adnan-haskovics-point-of-view-on-slavic-artists-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studioartspot.com\/dev\/slavic\/adnan-haskovics-point-of-view-on-slavic-artists-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"ADNAN HASKOVIC\u2019S POINT OF VIEW ON SLAVIC ARTISTS AGENCY"},"content":{"rendered":"

How would you describe the importance of Slavic Artists talent agency?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 First of all, I think it is very important that Slavic Artists Management appeared as an talent agency, because it is an ideal platform that brings together actors and artists from the Balkan region. Having an agency can open a lot of space for mutual cooperation. It opens space for co-productions, space for us to get to know each other better and simply to have a platform that can save us from some kind of an alienation and concentration only on our countries. Slavic Artists agency is kind of \u2018The Meeting Point\u2018 (\u2018Sabirni centar\u2018 \u2013 Yugoslavian film) in the Balkans.
\nOn the other hand, it is important that Nikola Kojo and Jonathan English started this agency \u2013 Jonathan as a director, screenwriter and producer and Nikola as an actor and producer, because they understand the importance and know the essence of this business. Now producers from around the world have the opportunity to get to know the work of everyone else who is not from their country and that\u2019s good for all of us. It is good for the industry and for us as artists. Being a part of a talent agency and having an agent is a western system that has existed for a long time, from England, America and even European countries, so it was necessary for this wave to spread and for the agency to appear in the Balkans.<\/p>\n

Adnan Haskovic recently presented his new film \u2018Die Before Death\u2019 directed by Ahmed Imamovi\u0107 at the 17th Sarajevo Film Festival. For Kurir, Adnan spoke about his life in America, but also about his desire to finally star in a Serbian series or film. We are presenting you a part of his interview with Ljubomir Radanov.<\/em><\/p>\n

In Sarajevo, the audience could see your new film in which you play a role of Zlatan Begovi\u0107, a gynecologist with no moral dilemmas when it tcomes to abortion. However, his life changes when he learns that he is seriously ill. Did you have a dilemma about playing this role?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 I believe that coincidence does not exist \u2013 no matter what happens in my life. The movie \u2018Die Before Death\u2019 was created spontaneously. The director and I started working on that project together after a chance encounter in Sarajevo. The film must be commercial, but also it has to have a message to send to the audience. We live in a chaotic society that gives us the wrong people as role models, and we have to turn to ourselves, to be a mirror to each other, to improve and make everything better. In this film, I play the master of life and death. He is a little god, but also a caddy and a judge. The only truth in the film is that we are all mortal. Who even talks about death today, and people die every day. Somehow we avoid it as a subject until some great temptation befalls us. Life is fleeting.<\/p>\n

What fate awaits the film after the festival?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 The message of the film is that we are not against abortion, and yet every democratic festival from the West has a problem showing it. That is why we turned to the East, Tokyo and Cairo, which do not have these dogmas. We expect the world premiere to be in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

In Serbia, you are part of the Slavic Artists Management talent agency, which is run by Nikola Kojo. When will we see you in a TV series or in a movie in Serbia?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 I hope soon. A regional project with Kojo is being prepared. I was supposed to play in the \u2018Frust\u2019 series, made by Firefly Productions, but I was shooting a movie in Turkey, so I couldn\u2019t coordinate my dates. I have no doubt that there will be more opportunities. Something better is waiting for me.<\/p>\n

You have made a great career in the USA. How did your journey take you across the ocean?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 On my second year af the Academy, I got a role in a French film and then in Italy. Everything happened spontaneously. Somehow I associate everything with fate. God blessed me to play with Penelope Cruz in the movie \u2018Twice Born\u2019.<\/p>\n

Are you also involved in production?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 In the Balkans, you can\u2019t just be an actor, you have to take matters into your own hands. That\u2019s the only way you can do what you\u2019re interested in, but it\u2019s a difficult path. Bjelogrli\u0107 proved that one actor can become a producer and make good movies.<\/p>\n

Which of your colleagues from Serbia did you collaborate with?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 I mostly worked with Nikola Djuri\u010dko from Serbia, and that was in Hollywood. We filmed the TV series \u2018Legend\u2019, where we played Chechens. He was a mobster, and I played a general who later becomes the president of Chechnya. We had an excellent cooperation. Djuri\u010dko is endlessly funny. I worked with Isidora Gradjanin in a film in Montenegro called \u2018Zaliv\u2019. Also, I worked with Jelena Gavrilovi\u0107 on a short film, and in Austria I played an uncle of Jovana Stojiljkovi\u0107 in a short film. I think that at that time she had just finished the Academy and that it was one of her first roles.<\/p>\n

To see more of the interview visit the link below:
\nhttps:\/\/www.kurir.rs\/zabava\/kultura\/4234958\/adnan-haskovic-o-zivotu-u-americi-i-nikoli-djuricku<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-4843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adnan-haskovic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioartspot.com\/dev\/slavic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioartspot.com\/dev\/slavic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioartspot.com\/dev\/slavic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioartspot.com\/dev\/slavic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioartspot.com\/dev\/slavic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studioartspot.com\/dev\/slavic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4845,"href":"https:\/\/studioartspot.com\/dev\/slavic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions\/4845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioartspot.com\/dev\/slavic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studioartspot.com\/dev\/slavic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioartspot.com\/dev\/slavic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studioartspot.com\/dev\/slavic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}