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Olivera Katarina is a Actor Serbe born on 5 march 1940
Olivera Katarina (Serbian: 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.
During her time at the film academy she met journalist Vuk Vučo and quickly married him. The marriage lasted only a year and a half.
She then for seven years lived in a common-law relationship with the powerful Yugoslav Security Service (UDBA) operative and Avala Film chairman Ratko Dražević.
In 1970, Olivera Katarina married Miladin Šakić, an administrator who later became the president of the Red Star Belgrade football club, with then Mayor of Belgrade Branko Pešić as Šakić's best man. The couple's only son Mane, a painter based in Madrid, was born on 1 February 1971. Later in 1971, Šakić died in a car accident near Mladenovac. In an interview for the Blic daily in 2011, Olivera Katarina claimed she had not been in a relationship with a man after Šakić.
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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.
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In her early youth Olivera Katarina dated water polo goalkeeper Milan Muškatirović for several years during the late 1950s.During her time at the film academy she met journalist Vuk Vučo and quickly married him. The marriage lasted only a year and a half.
She then for seven years lived in a common-law relationship with the powerful Yugoslav Security Service (UDBA) operative and Avala Film chairman Ratko Dražević.
In 1970, Olivera Katarina married Miladin Šakić, an administrator who later became the president of the Red Star Belgrade football club, with then Mayor of Belgrade Branko Pešić as Šakić's best man. The couple's only son Mane, a painter based in Madrid, was born on 1 February 1971. Later in 1971, Šakić died in a car accident near Mladenovac. In an interview for the Blic daily in 2011, Olivera Katarina claimed she had not been in a relationship with a man after Šakić.
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Filmography of Olivera Katarina (12 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Tears for Sale | Actress | |
| 1986 | Happy New '49 | Actress | Islednikot |
| 1974 | The Dervish and Death | Actress | Kadinica |
| 1974 | Hell River | Actress | Mila |
| 1971 | Black Seed | Actress | Marko |
| 1971 | Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment | Actress | The Duchess of Alba |
| 1970 | Mark of the Devil | Actress | Vanessa Benedikt (credited as Olivera Vučo) |
| 1969 | The Betrayal | Actress | |
| 1967 | I Even Met Happy Gypsies | Actress | Lence |
| 1966 | Monday or Tuesday | Actress | |
| 1966 | The Dream | Actress | Devojka (as Olivera Vuco) |
| 1966 | Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill | Actress | Bobo |