Olivera Katarina

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.

Known For

Mark of the Devil

as Vanessa Benedikt

I Even Met Happy Gypsies

as Lenče

Tears for Sale

as Velika Boginja

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment

as Herzogin von Alba

The Maiden's Tune

as Sibila

Hell River

as Mila

Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill

as Bobo

A Big Grey-Blue Bird

as Diana

The Betrayal

as Marchioness de Haro

Do Not Mention the Cause of Death

as Marija