Marko Duganzich

Marko Bačovnik Duganzich (born May 15th 1953, age 67) is a Chilean-born Malichkan politician, businessman, con artist and film director from Dvoreki.

Early life
Marko was born to wealthy Croatian parents settling in Punta Arenas, Chile. Janez was said to have been spoiled, while Eva reportedly had a sarcastic and arrogant personality.

At age 15, he developed a passion for film directing after his parents met local film director Philip Kovač who asked them to cast in his film "The Night Terrors". His mother died of natural causes in 1983, two years before starting his film career, while his father went missing in 1997.

First films
Marko set up his production company, Harcourt Films (now Borovica Entertainment), in 1985 just as he released his first ever film, titled "Escape from Haunted House", which was remade by RTVM Film Division in 1987. (The remake doubled as RTVM-FD's first film.) He founded the notorious street gang The Killers in 1992, which dissolved in 2013.

In 1991, Japanese video game developer Nintendo gave him permission to use their character Super Mario in the aptly-titled film Mario. The resulting film became one of the most famous Malichkan films to date. Marko later used Mario in his latest logo, which was first used in 2007, as a symbol of his legacy on the Malichkan film industry.

Rise to fame and PM era
In 2004, Marko became more famous due to the high grossing of his latest film Xenon. In 2010 he ran for a position as Prime Minister, which he managed to win, just a few days before Leash, his final ever film before his election into office, was released on May 10th on YouTube.

In 2015, Marko was originally going to finish his position, but after rigging the parliamentary election in his favor, he managed to secure a second term in office. The scandal came to light after it was revealed that high ranking officials resigned as a result of anger towards his actions.

The corruption scandals escalated into a wave of peaceful protests that ended with the King and the Royal Family gaining the upper hand, and Marko was impeached for treason, lèse-majesté and graft. In response he fled to the US to continue his film career.

In 2019, his film directing career reignited when his first film in 9 years, Ryu Aoba: The Movie, premiered worldwide on May 19th of the same year. He started working on the film in 2015 and it is one of the first Malichkan CGI-animated films, if not the first (if counting 2018's Blit20r: 20+20 Years Later)

Notable work

 * Mario (1991)
 * Xenon: A Tale of Two Worlds (2004)
 * Leash (2010)
 * Ryu Aoba: The Movie (2019)