Acting
Olivera Katarina
SR, EN, SH, DE cinema · 26 credits
Born
5 March 1940
Died
21 July 2026 (aged 86)
Birthplace
Beograd, Serbia
Also known as Olivera Vučo
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.
Known for
Filmography
Tears for Sale
as Velika Boginja
Seven Easy Pieces
as Singer (voice)
Jelena Gavanski
as Lina
Hell River
as Mila
The Dervish and Death
as Kadinica
Red Blow
as Ana
The Maiden's Tune
as Sibila
A Big Grey-Blue Bird
as Diana
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
as Herzogin von Alba
Mark of the Devil
as Vanessa Benedikt
Ann and Eve
as Nightclub Singer
Fraulein Doktor
as Marchioness de Haro
Monday or Tuesday
as Markova ljubavnica
The Dream
as Devojka
The Swarm
as Ljubica
The Soldier
as Milanka
A Trip Around the World
as Nazlija