THE BRIDGE ON THE DRINA

"The Bridge on the Drina" by Nobel Laureate Ivo Andric in dramatic interpretation of Tihomir Stanic

For the last eighteen years Tihomir Stanic has been performing this text all over the world as well as in a number of village schools throughout Serbia, Republika Srpska and Kosovo. In an emotional and suggestive way, Tika Stanic brings us closer to life and works of our only Nobel Prize Laureate, who portrayed our mentality in this most famous and most translated literary work of his, full of timeless words of wisdom. Due to his incredible resemblance to Ivo Andric, Tihomir Stanic is also preparing a biographical series about Andric, which is to be broadcast in 2021.

Stanic was selecting and studying excerpts from Andric's "The Bridge on the Drina" for months, being generously helped, as the actor often points out, by PhD Ljiljana Mrkic Popovic, a lecturer and professor of diction at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. In one of numerous interviews, I said: "I was doing it for five months, five hours a day. What I am saying, I have already said all over America, then Sweden, Serbia, Republika Srpska ... What I learned then, in those five months, gave me with great freedom. The consequences of that 2001 effort are of great importance to me, as I have no longer and in no theater wanted to do anything what I didn’t think I should do.”

Stanic is a highly engaged actor, with the experience of a film producer as well, he is a Professor of Acting at the Academy of Arts, and was also the president of the Association of Dramatic Artists of Serbia for many years. He has had dozens of roles in theater, film and series, interpreting various characters, of which perhaps the most familiar to wide audience is the character of the King Alexander Obrenovic in the TV series "The End of the Obrenovic Dynasty", and is currently most popular as the Inspector Marjanovic in the series "My Father's Murderers". He began his theatrical career at the Serbian National Theater, afterwards was a permanent member of the Atelier 212 for a long time and currently he works as a freelance artist. Famous as an interpreter of historical figures in the Opera & Theater Madlenianum, he successfully plays Milos Crnjanski and Casanova and appears in the role of Karenin in the play Ana Karenina.