Olivera Katarina
Also Known As: Olivera Vučo
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Beograd, Serbia
Birthday: March 05, 1940
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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A Trip Around the World
Overview: A highly fictionalized account of the first Serbian foreign-lottery winner - Jovanče Micić, a merchant from Jagodina who went on to travel the whole world in the company of his Hungarian mistress and Montenegrin friend with a wooden leg.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1964-07-12
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I Even Met Happy Gypsies
Overview: The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to flee. Tisa rejects her husband and she and Bora get married in the church, and their adventures continue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 1967-03-27
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Monday or Tuesday
Overview: A divorced journalist Marko Požgaj starts his working day by taking his son to the school. During the day many thoughts and images pass through his mind - the memories of childhood, ex-wife, current girlfriend, but mostly his father who died in a war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Dervish and Death
Overview: Ahmet Nurudin is a dervish and head of the Islamic monastery of the Mevlevi order in Sarajevo. He is a personification of morale and dogmatic belief, everything that Muslim religion of the Ottoman rule rests on. Throughout his life, the atmosphere of the city, the relations with the judge and the mechanism of government, the image of Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century is being revealed. Based on a highly praised novel by Meša Selimović.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-07-11
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Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Overview: As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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Mark of the Devil
Overview: In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
Genres: Horror Drama History Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-02-19
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Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
Overview: Tony and Brad investigate the murders of politicians and scientists. They soon face off against a team of super hit women with their usual flair.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-03-11
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The Maiden's Tune
Overview: A man heading through the countryside is drawn to a strange castle, which is reputed by the locals to be haunted. There he meets a beguiling young woman who ensnares him in her world of secrets.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Mystery
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Hell River
Overview: Yugoslav partisans battle Nazi invaders in a series of bloody confrontations which eventually culminate in the Battle at Hell River.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-07-17
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A Big Grey-Blue Bird
Overview: Two rival gangs try to obtain the five parts of a dangerous formula held by five scientists.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-09
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Tears for Sale
Overview: Story of two sisters that grew up in a small Serbian village in the beginning of the 1930s. The village is torn up by wars and years long blood oath. There are no men left in the village. Our heroines, Ognjenka and Mala Boginja decide to go to the city, kidnap men and return life to their village. The lights of the metropolis dazzle them and there starts this little amusing and sentimental adventure.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2008-01-30
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The Dream
Overview: In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked by the Germans. Casualties are high, but the dream of a boy and a girl about their liberated towns cannot be destroyed.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1966-07-14
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The Swarm
Overview: During turbulent times of the First Serbian uprising in 1804, on a freshly liberated land, a woman who betrayed her husband to the Turks has been taken to the court. A complicated truth and the real motives of the case get overlooked by the judge, a neutral Turk.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1966-05-16
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Mountain of Wrath
Overview: After the liberation in 1946, in a village in western Macedonia implemented collectivization farms. The President of the rural cooperative Stamat, former fighter, who with all their revolutionary zeal and enthusiasm believes collectivization only way for poor farmers. In doing so, he faces resistance from wealthy farmers who can hardly be separated from the property. In contrast, Stamat faced with the decision of the Committee, the mountain that provides a livelihood and that villagers consider her to be assigned to the Wood Industry. His attempt to change this decision, there is no success. He feels that his revolutionary ideal betrayed. In these circumstances Stamat faced with the fact that the villagers do not trust him, but nevertheless he stands on the right side.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Do Not Mention the Cause of Death
Overview: In an atmosphere of WWII, a village dyer wants to help his folks in their sorrow and distress by supplying them with the black paint, but there is not enough black paint for all of them, because death works faster than the dyer. His wife was raped, but the naive dyer believes in "straight" intentions of his godfather - black marketeer, and he gives away free canvas to the people. But in all their pain, people are unable to distinguish good intentions from the evil ones.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-04-16
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Pollen Dust
Overview: A young journalist is sent to a small Bosnian town to interview people on happiness. He mixes up with local affair and has a romance with a student. He gets a shock when he finds out that he is going to be important due to childhood mumps.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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There's Love, There's Not
Overview: Everything happens during the course of a day. A toddler looks for his lost toy, some people look for their happiness, circling around in some kind of a lost kaleidoscope; they love and hate, suffer and enjoy, being that honest or fake, joyful or saddening. In the end, the boy finds his kaleidoscope, but the question remains if grownups have found their dreams, or at least their traces.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Seven Easy Pieces
Overview: For Seven Easy Pieces Marina Abramovic reenacted five seminal performance works by her peers, dating from the 1960's and 70's, and two of her own, interpreting them as one would a musical score. The project confronted the fact that little documentation exists from this critical early period and one often has to rely upon testimony from witnesses or photographs that show only portions of any given performance. The seven works were performed for seven hours each, over the course of seven consecutive days, November 9 –15, 2005 at the Guggenheim Museum, in New York City. Seven Easy Pieces examines the possibilities of representing and preserving an art form that is, by nature, ephemeral.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-15
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Ann and Eve
Overview: The story concerns the Yugoslavian holiday of two toothsome Swedish girls. One of the girls, played by Maria Liljedahl, is (metaphorically speaking) a world-champion in the promiscuity sweepstakes, bedding men (and women) in great profusion. Somehow, the movie also manages to be about film reviewers and film directors. Variety) commented '...the film's inherently good visual and physical qualities are themselves dissipated in [the director's] cynicism, ennui, and involuted intellectual mirror tricks.'
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-08-03
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Good Luck Hunting
Overview: An Australian of German descent has come to Yugoslavia on a hunting trip. He has an arrangement to hunt deers on the hunting ground high in Bosnian mountain. He shoots running deers straight in the head with his sniper carbine. This master shooting arouse suspicion with the gamekeeper that the stranger might be the notorious Nazi sniper who murdered many innocent civilians the same way during WWII.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1964-07-15
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The Betrayal
Overview: A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-24
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The Soldier
Overview: A story of a boy, forced to grow mature before his time and to die too early because of the cruel war circumstances. This film is dedicated to all the children who have died during the National Liberation War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Red Blow
Overview: At the beginning of the war the Germans come to the mine Trepca in Kosovo and occupy it. Communist Party and the workers do not agree with that and under constant repression, beginning small diversions, which will be transferred in the conquest and liberation of the entire mine.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1974-07-16
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Commandments for a Gangster
Overview: Northon is a retired gangster wants to avenge the death of his sister, who was married to Frank Cline. Cline disappeared while transporting a large shipment of the Organization's gold, leaving three dead bodies behind him. Northon follows the trail to the sunken ship and tries to beat rival gangsters to the lost gold.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-05-21
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Jelena Gavanski
Overview: A melodrama that analyzes social changes after the Second World War, a story about dreams and unfulfilled romance of a middle-aged couple.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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