He took a degree in film directing from FAMU in Prague. He began his career with a series of half an hour TV films on Television Belgrade. In 1977, he directed his first feature film Specijalno vaspitanje. Afterwards he made socially oriented films Nacionalna klasa (1979), Majstori, majstori (1980), film of catastrophe Variola vera (1982), and Tajvanska kanasta (1985). In 1987, he made, according to the critics, his best film Već viđeno (Déjà vu) that won the Great Golden Arena in Pula. Then he followed this with Sabirni centar (1989), Tito i ja (1992) and Urnebesna tragedija (1995). He appeared as an actor in the feature films Nedjelja by Lordan Zafranović and Lepe žene prolaze kroz grad, by Želimir Žilnik, as well as the short film Apotekarica by Srđan Karanović. Since 1978, he has been teaching film direction at the Academy for Drama Arts in Belgrade.