Olivera Katarina

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Olivera Katarina (née Petrovi; Serbian Cyrillic; born 5 March 1940) and Olivera овора укрина, formerly known as Olivera Vuo (Serbian Cyrillic: ливера ливера ера раковера левера ивера ера укто) is a She was one of the leading figures of Yugoslav cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, and she is perhaps best known for her appearance in Aleksandar Petrovi's film "You Me Too Happy Gypsies (1967), which took home the Grand Prix at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.

Olivera Katarina has performed music from Serbian traditional to pop music, as well as in several languages. Her interpretation of "elem, elem," which she performed in I Even Met Happy Gypsies, has been dubbed one of the best renditions of the song ever recorded.

Early life

Olivera Katarina was born Olivera Petrovi to father Budimir, a naval captain, and mother Katarina (née Jovani), on March 5th, 1940 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Olivera Katarina was adopted in 1969 by her mother, who died on January 4, 1969. She spent her childhood in Belgrade, Dobanovcy, and Valjevo.

Olivera Katarina took piano and ballet lessons as an infant. In 1959, she moved to Paris and enrolled in the Alliance Française school in order to improve her French language skills. Olivera Katarina joined the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law first before transferring to the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. Milena Dravi and Petar Kralj were among her colleagues at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts.

Personal life

Throughout her youth, Olivera Katarina dated water polo goalkeeper Milan Mukatirovi for several years in the late 1950s.

During her time at the film academy, she encountered journalist Vuk Vuo and quickly married him. The marriage was only a year and a half long.

Ratko Draevi, the powerful Yugoslav Security Service (UDBA) agent and Avala Film chairman, has been with her for seven years.

Olivera Katarina married Miladin aki, a retired Red Star Belgrade footballer who later became the president of the Red Star Belgrade football team, then Mayor of Belgrade Branko Pei as the country's best man. Mane, the couple's sole son, was born in 1970, in Madrid. aki died in a car crash near Mladenovac in 1971. Olivera Katarina said she had not been in a relationship with a man after he was named in a Blic daily in 2011.

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Career

In Belgrade, she studied at the academy of theater, film, radio, and television. In a National Theater in Belgrade, she began her career as a student with a major role as Kotana. Vuk Vuo, a theater critic who later married Vuk Vuo, was among her visitors at the theatre.

She was honoured at festivals in Moscow and Venice for her work in Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment in 1971 (as Olivera Katarina). I Even Met Happi Gypsies, Aleksandar Petrovi's biggest hit, where she appeared as Lene, a gipsy singer. At the 1967 Cannes Film Festival, the film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Grand Prix Awards, as well as Best Foreign Language Film at the 26th Golden Globe Awards. At the 1967 Cannes Film Festival, it received the FIPRESCI Grand Prize of the Jury. Olivera closed the festival with a concert together with Nana Mouskouri and Dionne Warwick.

She had also had a long career in singing. She performed in Serbian, as well as in Russian, Japanese, Romanian, Greek, Romani, and Indonesian. She performed traditional Serbian folk songs as well as Gypsy/Romani songs. She appeared in the historic Paris Olympia for 72 concerts in a row.

With the song "Poigraj, poigraj, devoje," she entered Yugoslavia's national choice to represent Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969.

Olivera Katarina is also known as "the only woman Salvador Dalt in front of" after her Paris appearance, being captivated by her beauty and voice.

Katarina contributed to Marina Abramovi's Balkan Erotic Epic in 2007 and in Uro Stojanovi's film arlston za Ognjenku, a goddess.

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