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- Radmila Savicevic was born on 8 February 1926 in Krusevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. She was an actress, known for Srecni ljudi (1993), Kamiondzije (1972) and Truckers (1973). She was married to Bozidar Savicevic. She died on 8 November 2001 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Producer
- Production Manager
Dragan Samardzic was born in 1966 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was a producer and production manager, known for The Hornet (1998), Premeditated Murder (1995) and Wheels (1998). He died on 25 April 2001 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia.- Marshal Josip Broz Tito, Communist President of Yugoslavia, and 1st Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement, was born as Josip Broz on May 7, 1892, in the village of Kumrovec, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Croatia). He was the seventh of 15 children born to Roman Catholic peasants. His blacksmith father, Franjo Broz, was a Croat, and his mother, Marija, was Slovene. After spending part of his childhood years with his maternal grandfather in Podsreda (present-day Slovenia), he returned to Kumrovec to attend school. He failed the first grade and left his formal education behind in 1905, to be apprenticed with a locksmith. As a journeyman locksmith he moved around the Empire.
The 18-year-old Broz joined the Croatian Social Democratic Party, and in 1913, he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Army. At the beginning of World War I, Broz, who had won a silver medal at an army fencing competition in May of 1914, was sent to Ruma. It was there he began to find himself and his life's calling, and was later arrested for anti-war propaganda and imprisoned. He was sent to Galicia to fight against the Russians and Serbs in 1915, and was seriously wounded by shellfire. In April 1915 his entire battalion was captured by the Russians.
The wounded Broz spent several months convalescing in a military hospital, where he learned to speak Russian. In the fall of 1916 he was sent to a work camp in the Ural mountains. While at the camp the first Russian Revolution of February 1917 (March, new style) occurred, culminating in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II on March 15th. Broz was arrested for organizing demonstrations among the prisoners of war in April 1917, but he escaped and joined the Bolsheviks in St. Petersburg (renamed Petrograd after the first revolution), engaging in street fighting during the attempted Bolshevik coup d'etat in Petrograd on July 16-17, 1917.
The Bolshevik insurrection failed to spark a wider revolt and was crushed by forces loyal to Aleksandr Kerensky, head of the provisional government. Broz fled for Finland to try to avoid arrest, but he was captured and sent to prison. He escaped from a train taking him to another work camp and in November joined the Red Army in Omsk, Siberia, fighting with the Red Guards in the first years of the Russian Civil War, pitting Reds against Whites (royalists). Broz applied for membership in the Russian Communist Party in the spring of 1918.
The Treaty of Versailles incorporated the territory of Croatia into the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia), and when he returned to his village in 1920, he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). Now employed as a metalworker, Broz became a union organizer. He was arrested after a Bosnian KPJ member assassinated the Yugoslav Minister of the Interior, which led to the outlawing of the KPJ. Broz switched his organizing activities to the underground, and in April 1927 he had ascended to the KPJ's Committee in Zagreb. As a KPJ committeeman he caught the attention of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Through Soviet influence, Broz was raised to the position of deputy of the Politburo of the KPJ Central Committee and named leader of the Croatian and Slovenian committees.
By 1934 parliamentary democracy in Yugoslavia had been replaced by a dictatorship under the Yugoslav king, and the KPJ remained banned. It was in this year, shortly after his release from his latest prison sentence, that Broz was named a full member of the KPJ Politburo and Central Committee. He adopted nomme de guerre "Tito" to use in his party work (possibly because "tito alba", the owl, a creature of the night, which also represents wisdom).
The newly nicknamed Tito went to the USSR in 1935, where he served in the Communist International's (Comintern) Balkan section. After a year with the Comintern, Tito, who apparently won the confidence of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, was named Secretary-General of the KPJ and returned to Yugoslavia to rebuild the party. Tito filled party posts with his hand-picked replacements. Eventually his position as Secretary-General of the KPJ was officially ratified by KPJ members at a secret meeting in Zagreb in 1940.
The Yugoslav government was pressured by Germany and Italy to join the Axis Powers. Initially it resisted, but finally threw in its lot with the Axis on March 25, 1941, under duress. On March 27th the government was overthrown by a pro-Western military coup in Belgrade, thus aborting Yugoslavia's alliance with the Axis. Ten days later, on April 6th, Yugoslavia was invaded by German, Hungarian and Bulgarian troops, and the Royal Yugoslav army was vanquished in less than two weeks, surrendering on April 17th.
When the Axis invaded Yugoslavia in 1941, Stalin ordered the KPJ to offer no resistance due to the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact signed in August 1939. Despite ample warning, Stalin did not believe Adolf Hitler would attack the Soviet Union. What he did not know about the Axis incursion into Yugoslavia was that Hitler was securing his southern flank prior to the launching of Operation Barbarossa, the imminent invasion of the USSR. When Germany attacked the USSR in June 1941, it now became a duty for a communist to defend his "motherland" by fighting the Axis powers. Tito called a meeting of the Central committee, which named him Military Commander. The partisans' struggle began with Tito's call to arms for the people of Yugoslavia with the slogan, "Death to Fascism, Freedom to the People!"
Their prior organization as underground communist cells used to functioning in secrecy and with the strictest discipline meant that Tito's partisans were very well-organized and extremely effective. His aim was not only to liberate Yugoslavia but establish the KPJ in liberated areas. Revolutionary governments were established in areas the partisans liberated, which foreshadowed the administrative structure of postwar Yugoslavia.
The non-communists, mostly Serbian Chetniks, also fought against the Axis and had the support of both the British and the Yugoslav government in exile. However, they were not seen as effective as Tito's partisans, and the US and the UK switched their support to the partisans after they successfully fought off ferocious Axis attacks from January to June 1943. The partisans were officially recognized at the Tehran Conference, with the result that Allied arms, supplies and agents were parachuted behind Axis lines to assist them. Stilll, Tito refused to cooperate with the government-in-exile in London.
After the February 1945 Yalta Conference, at which the parameters of postwar Europe were agreed upon, Marshal Tito consolidated his power and that of the KPJ by purging his government of non-communists. Tito signed an agreement with the USSR on April 5, 1945, that permitted "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory". With the help of the Red Army, Tito's partisans won the war against the Axis and their collaborators. Tito then ordered foreign troops off of Yugoslav soil after V-E Day, and turned to eliminating domestic rivals, including members of the originally anti-fascist Chetnik movement (who eventually collaborated with the Germans to try to stop Tito) and the fascist Ustashe, who from the beginning had supported the Nazis as a vassal state in Croatia. Members of both organizations were summarily tried and executed en masse. General Dragoljub Draza Mihailovic, the Chetnik leader, was executed in March 1946.
Winning the rigged November 1945 elections, Tito imposed a new constitution on Yugoslavia. He further consolidated his power by organizing a strong army and a secret police force (the UDBA), both of which were personally loyal to him. In the postwar years Tito used the UDBA to eliminate Nazi collaborators. He also targeted Catholic priests and those who had opposed the communist-led war effort. The purge was eventually extended to include even those communists who did not agree with Tito.
Initially, the economy and society were collectivized in Soviet fashion, although he did not push for the collectivization of agriculture. Tito began to resent Stalin's constant meddling with his government and his suggestions on how Tito should run his economy. On his part, Stalin was unhappy with what he perceived as an independent foreign policy that was out of sync with Moscow. Stalin tried to depose Tito but would not go so far as to invade Yugoslavia, whose mountainous terrain had hamstrung Hitler's troops and was ideal territory for partisan attacks against an organized military force.
Tito denounced the Soviet policy of "... unconditional subordination of small socialist countries to one large socialist country." In response, Stalin had Tito and the KPJ expelled from the Cominform in June 1948. The USSR, through its Common Market-style organization called Comecon, boycotted Yugoslavia.
Through the vehicle of UDBA, Tito purged the KPJ of hardcore Stalinists, those that could not be "reeducated." He began decentralizing the economy, putting more power into the hands of workers' councils on the principle of workers' self-management. To keep himself in power and Yugoslavia independent of the USSR, he turned to the West for financial aid. The Greek civil war, pitting mostly Communists against the anti-Communist Greek government, sputtered out after Tito sealed off the border with Greece, effectively keeping arms, supplies and fighters from getting to the Communist rebels.
After the death of Stalin in March 5, 1953, Tito attempted a reconciliation with the USSR, meeting with new CPSU party boss Nikita Khrushchev in Belgrade in 1955. The meeting resulted in the Belgrade Declaration, which affirmed equality in relations between communist countries (although in the case of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, that equality was observed in the breach rather than the observance).
Freed to a degree of the Soviet threat, Tito's policy of "nonengagement" developed into a policy of "nonalignment." He overhauled his foreign policy to promote a non-aligned bloc between the West and the Warsaw Pact. Convening a meeting of 25 non-aligned states with India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1956, a third, alternative neutral bloc came into being. Tito traveled extensively in the developing world during the 1960s and 1970s to promote non-alignment.
On the domestic front, Tito maintained a balance among the different ethnic groups and nationalities of his multi-ethnic country. It ensured stability for as long as the KPJ and the secret police maintained control of Yugoslavia. Tito's system of "symetrical federalism," while predicated upon the principle of equality among the six republics and two autonomous provinces, in fact played the nationalities off against each other.
His ties with the West encouraged trade, which helped boost Yugoslavia's standard of living. Yugoslavia's beaches became a top tourist destination for Western European tourists, due to their beauty, the relative openness of Yugoslav society and the favorable exchange rate, which made an excursion to Yugoslavia very affordable. The economy of some of the Yugoslav provinces, particularly Croatia and Slovenia, thrived during the Cold War.
Marshal Tito was styled President-for-Life in 1974. While he allowed a freer exchange of people and ideas than most of the countries in the communist bloc, the major question of his regime remained would Yugoslavia survive the death of Tito. Without a strongman and the monopoly on power enjoyed by the KPJ, backed up by the army and the secret police, would Yugoslavia remain a country?
Josip Broz Tito died on May 4, 1980 in a hospital in Ljubljana, Slovenia, after being gravely ill for almost four months. He was the last of the World War II leaders to leave the world stage, having outlived his patron, then nemesis Stalin by almost 30 years. The country that he kept together did not outlive him by much more than a decade. Croatian nationalists won the first free elections in their republic in April and May 1990. The independence of Slovenia was proclaimed on June 25, 1991. Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina proclaimed their independence on October 8, 1991 and March 3, 1992 respectively, triggering civil wars in those republics, which left Yugoslavia a rump federation consisting only of Serbia and Montenegro. - Actor
- Producer
Dragomir Bojanic-Gidra was born on 13 June 1933 in Kragujevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor and producer, known for Svadba (1973), Lude godine (1977) and Ljubi, ljubi, al' glavu ne gubi (1981). He was married to Ljiljana Kontic. He died on 11 November 1993 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.- Actor
- Music Department
Pavle Vuisic was born on 10 July 1926 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Who's Singin' Over There? (1980), The Written Off Return (1976) and Maratonci trce pocasni krug (1982). He died on 1 October 1988 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia.- Actor
- Music Department
One of the most busy, talented and famous Serbian actors. After studying law, Mija Aleksic turned to acting, becoming a member of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre and the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade. As of the 1950s, Aleksic added movies and - later on television - to his numerous activities.. At ease in drama, Mija Aleksic is best remembered for his talent in the register of comedy.- Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic was born on 11th of August 1934 in Belgrade, Stojkovic in Belgrade. He was one of the most prominent and respectable actors in the history of Yugoslav and Serbian cinema.
He acted in 68 films during his life (debut in Covek iz hrastove sume (1964)), more than 50 TV dramas and 20 TV series. The character Bubuleja in Sinisa Pavic's TV series Diplomci (1971) is considered to be the most popular role of this actor. He began his career as a theatre actor in the 1950s in Yugoslav Drama Theatre and later as a member of a famous "Atelje 212" (1961-1999). He realized more than 80 theater roles, such as Pete in "The Birthday Party" by Harold Pinter, Lopahin in "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov, Ilija Cvorovic in "The Balkan Spy" by Dusan Kovacevic, Luka Laban in "The Professional" by Dusan Kovacevic and Captain in "The Father" by August Strindberg. Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic was one of the favorite actors of director Slobodan Sijan and writer Dusan Kovacevic. - Dragan Ocokoljic was born on 3 February 1927 in Kraljevo, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Signal Over the City (1960), Mis Ston (1958) and Obracun (1962). He died on 21 September 1996 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Renata Freiskorn was born on 20 April 1943 in Yugoslavia. She was an actress, known for Memento (1967), Deca vojvode Smita (1967) and Ponedjeljak ili utorak (1966). She died on 21 September 1985 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Predrag Lakovic was born on 28 March 1929 in Skoplje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Black Cat, White Cat (1998), Time of the Gypsies (1988) and A Better Life (1987). He died on 9 September 1997 in Curug, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Zivojin Pavlovic was born on 15 April 1933 in Sabac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was a writer and director, known for Rdece klasje (1970), When I Am Dead and Gone (1967) and Zadah tela (1983). He was married to Snezana Lukic. He died on 29 November 1998 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.- Milivoje 'Mica' Tomic was born on 10 February 1920 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor and writer, known for Wintering in Jakobsfeld (1975), Covek sa cetiri noge (1983) and Salas u Malom Ritu (1975). He was married to Marija Milutinovic. He died on 23 August 2000 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Bogoljub Petrovic was born on 27 December 1942 in Kragujevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Poslednji cin (1981), Slom (1979) and Opasni susreti (1973). He died on 30 December 1995 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Milan Puzic was born on 2 April 1926 in Krusevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Kamiondzije opet voze (1984), Poslednji cin (1981) and Heaven Without Love (1959). He died on 16 November 1994 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Zvonimir Rogoz was born on 10 October 1887 in Zagreb, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]. He was an actor, known for Dnevnik Ocenaseka (1969), Son of Samson (1960) and It Was Not in Vain (1957). He died on 6 February 1988 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia.- Stevan Minja was born on 26 September 1926 in Zrenjanin, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Written Off (1974), Mrtvacima ulaz zabranjen (1965) and Journey of Honor (1991). He died on 8 April 1999 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
- Ramiz Sekic was born on 15 January 1934 in Ljubusko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Price iz radionice (1981), Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972) and Opasni susreti (1973). He died on 24 October 1995 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Wolfgang Staudte was born on 9 October 1906 in Saarbrücken, Germany. He was a director and actor, known for Ciske de Rat (1955), Rotation (1949) and Murderers Among Us (1946). He was married to Angelika Hoffmann, Rita Heidelbach, Ingmar Zeisberg and Renate Praetorius. He died on 19 January 1984 in Zigrski Vrh near Sevnica, Slovenia, Yugoslavia.- Actor
- Music Department
- Writer
Ljubisa Bacic was born on 30 December 1922 in Soko Banja, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor and writer, known for Vise od igre (1976), Crni sneg (1966) and TV teatar (1956). He died on 24 March 1999 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.- Ivo Andric was born on 9 October 1892 in Dolac near Travnik, Austria-Hungary [now Bosnia and Herzegovina]. He was a writer, known for The Bridge on the Drina, Legends of Anika (1954) and The Woman from Sarajevo (1980). He was married to Milica Babic-Andric. He died on 13 March 1975 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
- Zoran Radmilovic was born on 11 May 1933 in Zajecar, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Ward Six (1978), Maratonci trce pocasni krug (1982) and Sedam Hamleta (1967). He was married to Dina Rutic. He died on 21 July 1985 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Janez Vrhovec was born on 19 January 1921 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Man Is Not a Bird (1965), Denovi na iskusenie (1965) and Love and Fashion (1960). He died on 7 October 1997 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.- Mihajlo Viktorovic was born on 14 February 1929 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Mali covek (1957), A Better Life (1987) and Saculatac (1968). He died on 26 September 1998 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Milivoje Popovic-Mavid was born on 12 September 1909 in Sabac, Serbia. He was an actor, known for Winnetou (1963), Love and Fashion (1960) and Heaven Without Love (1959). He was married to Mira Stupica and Dragana Popovic. He died on 5 July 1994 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.- Milan Erak was born on 23 January 1950 in Kikinda, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Balkan ekspres (1983), Kraj dinastije Obrenovic (1995) and Occupation in 26 Pictures (1978). He died on 20 January 1995 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.