Biography

LEON KOVKE (Momčilo Kovačević)

( Born on 13 March 1949., in Belgrade )

Playwright and screenplay writer. He graduated from The Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade ( class of 1977/78 - 1981/82), Department of Dramaturgy. He is a member of the Association of Film Artists of Serbia since 1982. A member of Association of Playwrights of Serbia since 2000.

Programme editor, PR and editor of “Teatron” (2000) in Serbian Museum of Theatre Arts. Editor and editor in chief of the edition “Contemporary Serbian Drama”  (books 10 - 35,
2000 - 2008). Secretary of the Association of Serbian Playwrights, lives and works in Belgrade.

With the same commitment and sincerity writes for both children and adults.

Original works :

Drama : “Podzemaljci” ("The Snail" Theatre, 1990)
“Super kiddo”("The Snail" Theatre, 1993)
“Little Red Riding Hood” ("The Snail" Theatre, 1994)
“Little Cube” ("The Snail" Theatre, 1996)
               “Intimate - Victimological Story” ("Modern Garage" Theatre, 2001)
“ Nemirko i svemirko ("The Snail" Theatre, " Sombor National Theatre ", 2004)

Printed Drama: ” The Ritual of dense air” (Contemporary Serbian Drama, book 10, 2000)                        “ Clepsydra”  (Contemporary Serbian Drama, book 11, 2001)
“ Minister's Wife likes dumplings” (Contemporary Serbian Drama, book 13, 2002)
“ Sugar Water”  (Contemporary Serbian Drama, book 14, 2002)
“ Baby’s Breakfast” (Contemporary Serbian Drama, book 23, 2005)
Six dramas; publisher - Association of Serbian Playwrights, Edition - selected   dramas, Belgrade 2008.

Screenplays - ( produced full length feature films):
“Theatre connection” (1980)
“Sugar Water” (1983)
“The Fat and the Skinny One” (1985)
“ Dandy” (1986)
“ Master and the Cream pie” (1986)

About ten short feature films, among which, “The Case of Foundryman Bogoljub Savkovic” , got the most national and international awards.

Television, screenplays : over 300 shows, out of which the one with the longest continuity is “ Cube, cube, little cube” with 147 episodes.