Olivera Katarina

Olivera Katarina

84 · Born: Mar 5, 1940

Personal Details

BornMar 5, 1940 Beograd, Serbia
Spouse
  • Vuk Vuco

  • Miladin Sakic

Biography

Olivera Katarina (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливера Катарина; née Petrović (Петровић); born 5 March 1940),also previously known as Olivera Vučo (Оливера Вучо) and Olivera Šakić (Оливера Шакић),is a Serbian actress, singer and writer. She was one of the leading stars of Yugoslav cinema in the 1960s and the 1970s, and is probably the best known for her performance in Aleksandar Petrović's film I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967),which won the Grand Prix at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival. As a singer, Olivera Katarina has performed music of various genres, varying from Serbian traditional to pop music, and in numerous languages. Her version of "Đelem, đelem", which she performed in I Even Met Happy Gypsies, has been considered as one of the best rendition of that song ever recorded. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olivera Vučo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Career

2008
Tears for Sale
Tears for Sale as Velika Boginja
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2007
Seven Easy Pieces
Seven Easy Pieces as Singer (voice)
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1974
Partizani
Partizani as Mila
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1970
Mark of the Devil
Mark of the Devil as Vanessa Benedikt
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1969
Fraulein Doktor
Fraulein Doktor as Marchioness de Haro
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