Olivera Katarina
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 5, 1940
- Died
- July 21, 2026 (aged 86)
- Birthplace
- Beograd, Serbia
Biography
Olivera Katarina (March 5, 1940 – July 21, 2026). (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливера Катарина; née Petrović (Петровић), 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.
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Filmography
Tears for Sale
Movie · as Velika Boginja
Seven Easy Pieces
Movie · as Singer (voice)
Jelena Gavanski
Movie · as Lina
Hell River
Movie · as Mila
The Dervish and Death
Movie · as Kadinica
Pollen Dust
Movie
Red Blow
Movie · as Ana
The Maiden's Tune
Movie · as Sibila
A Big Grey-Blue Bird
Movie · as Diana
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Movie · as Herzogin von Alba
Mark of the Devil
Movie · as Vanessa Benedikt
Ann and Eve
Movie · as Nightclub Singer
Fraulein Doktor
Movie · as Marchioness de Haro
Wien nach Noten
Movie · as Self
Mountain of Wrath
Movie · as Olivera
Do Not Mention the Cause of Death
Movie · as Marija
There's Love, There's Not
Movie
Commandments for a Gangster
Movie
I Even Met Happy Gypsies
Movie · as Lenče
Monday or Tuesday
Movie · as Markova ljubavnica
Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
Movie · as Bobo
The Dream
Movie · as Devojka
The Swarm
Movie · as Ljubica
The Soldier
Movie · as Milanka
A Trip Around the World
Movie · as Nazlija
Good Luck Hunting
Movie · as Keti
Discorama
TV · as Self · 1 ep