Actor
Olivera Katarina
March 5, 1940 · Beograd, Serbia
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.
Often works with
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Velimir Živojinović
8 titles together
I Even Met Happy Gypsies, Hell River, Do Not Mention the Cause of Death
Janez Vrhovec
4 titles together
I Even Met Happy Gypsies, Hell River, The Betrayal
Bekim Fehmiu
3 titles together
I Even Met Happy Gypsies, Do Not Mention the Cause of Death, The Swarm
Dragomir Felba
3 titles together
Hell River, The Dervish and Death, Mountain of Wrath
Rastislav Jović
3 titles together
Do Not Mention the Cause of Death, The Dervish and Death, The Swarm
Faruk Begolli
3 titles together
Red Blow, The Dervish and Death, The Dream
Full filmography · 25
Tears for Sale
as Velika Boginja
2008
Seven Easy Pieces
as Singer (voice)
2007
Jelena Gavanski
as Lina
1982
Hell River
as Mila
1974
Red Blow
as Ana
1974
The Dervish and Death
as Kadinica
1974
Pollen Dust
cast
1974
The Maiden's Tune
as Sibila
1973
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
as Herzogin von Alba
1971
A Big Grey-Blue Bird
as Diana
1971
Ann and Eve
as Nightclub Singer
1970
Mark of the Devil
as Vanessa Benedikt
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