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Olivera Katarina
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.
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As actor
Tears for Sale
Seven Easy Pieces
Jelena Gavanski
The Dervish and Death
Hell River
Pollen Dust
Red Blow
The Maiden's Tune
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
A Big Grey-Blue Bird
Mark of the Devil
Ann and Eve
The Betrayal
Wien nach Noten
Mountain of Wrath
Do Not Mention the Cause of Death
There's Love, There's Not
Commandments for a Gangster
I Even Met Happy Gypsies
Monday or Tuesday
Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
The Dream
The Swarm
The Soldier
A Trip Around the World
Good Luck Hunting