He was a Serbian actor, was born on March 6, 1926 in Kiseljak, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He finished elementary school and attended high school in Vinkovci. Completed studies in the State acting school in Zagreb and Theatre Academy in Belgrade. The first professional contract he signed with the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (season 1945/46.) From 1946 to 1947, engaged in Split, and in 1947 he transferred to the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, where he flourished. Besides acting, he worked in the theater, television and as a film director (film Lilika). He died in Belgrade on 8 June 2001.

Šotra was born in the village of Kozice, near Stolac, at the time part of the Littoral Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern Bosnia and Herzegovina), into an ethnic Serb family (Herzegovinian Serbs).
Already a prominent TV director, 46-year-old Šotra made his feature film debut in 1979 with Osvajanje slobode, a post-World War II story written by Gordan Mihić about a cultural and infrastructural rebuilding effort in the small Serbian town.

He came back two years later with a folksy comedy Šesta brzina starring Zoran Radmilović. The following year, 1982, Šotra revisited the post-war theme with Idemo dalje, starring Dragan Nikolić as a World War II young Partisan transitioning into his new life as a schoolteacher as the war is coming to an end.

In 1983 came the spectacular World War II drama Igmanski marš, a high-budget project of the partisan film genre.

 Graduated acting from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Prof. Predrag Bajčetić. She is married to director Boban Skerlić with whom she has two sons. As a little girl she was interested in acting and starred in some TV series, starred in over 20 films and TV series among others in "Do koske," "Noz," "Belo odelo" and the TV series "Otvorena vrata" "Vuk Karadzic", "Lisice". She is remembered after great role played in the TV series "Otvorena vrata" where she played Ana Andjelic. She was also the executive producer of "Noz" and "Do koske". She speaks English and German.

In his films and novels, he depicted the cruel reality of small, poor and abandoned people living in the corners of society; he was one of the major figures of the Black Wave in Yugoslav cinema in 1960s, a movement which portrayed the darker side of life rather than the shiny facades of communist Yugoslavia. Pavlović received numerous awards, including two NIN Prizes for his novels, one Silver Bear of the Berlin International Film Festival and several Golden Arenas of the Yugoslavia's most prestigious Pula Film Festival.
Živojin Pavlović was born in Šabac in 1933. When he was 19, he was writing about film and art for Belgrade newspapers. He graduated painting at the Academy of Applied Arts of the University of Belgrade, and he directed his first professional film Žive Vode (Living Water) in 1961, which immediately received a special jury award of the Pula festival.

Želimir was born in the Nazi-run Crveni Krst concentration camp in September 1942 where his Serbian communist activist mother Milica "Maša" Šuvaković was imprisoned by Germans since early 1942. On 2 December 1942 there was a prison break in the camp as a group of prisoners managed to escape, and as a response - the Germans executed a number of remaining prisoners including Maša Šuvaković. Days before his mother was executed, 3-month-old Želimir was taken out of the prison and given to her parents. Young Želimir was thus raised by his maternal grandparents.

His father was a Slovene communist activist and Partisan fighter Konrad "Slobodan" Žilnik who got severely wounded and taken prisoner in March 1944 during a battle against Chetniks. Chetniks tortured him and eventually executed him couple of days later. Posthumously, he was awarded the People's Hero gallantry medal.He won his first awards, a Golden Berlin Bear and a Youth Film Award at the 19th Berlin International Film Festival in 1969 for his feature film Rani radovi (Early Works) which depicted the aftermath of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

During the early 1970s he was criticized and his works were quite often banned due their portrayal of student demonstrations and their advocacy of freedom of media and speech. Between 1973 and 1976 he found work for several independent German production companies. In conjunction with these companies he directed two documentaries dealing with anarcho-terrorism; Öffentliche Hinrichtung[3] and Paradies.[4] In Yugoslavia he found work in theatre production but returned to his previous work with documentaries.

In the 1980s his works began to garner more attention and were successfully presented on several television networks and at local and international festivals. In 1985 he made Pretty Women Walking Through the City which predicted that nationalistic tensions will cause the disintegration of Yugoslavia. His 1988 his black comedy Tako se kalio čelik[5] (The Way Steel Was Tempered) was nominated for the Golden St. George award at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival in the Soviet Union.

In 1994 he wrote and directed Tito's Second Time Among the Serbs, and helped initiate one of Serbia's independent media outlets, b92 in Belgrade. His 1995 feature film Marble Ass was a look at the myth built around the masculinity of the male as a warrior and leader. It was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival.

Recently he has directed several documentaries dealing with the commonality of the Central and Eastern Europe and the problems with immigration to and from Europe with the same style and narrative that had gained him recognition for many years.

In July 1993, Laušević entered into a quarrel with a group of local youths, together with his brother. This escalated into a fist fight, culminating in Laušević firing multiple rounds from his handgun, killing two of the youths and seriously wounding one. Sentenced by a Montenegrin (republic) court to prison initially, his conviction was overturned by the Yugoslav (appellate) court on the grounds that the first-instance court had improperly dismissed Laušević's self-defense argument, and the punishment was drastically reduced. Laušević served 4 years and 7 months in prison before his release. But he faced further legal battles. There were appeals by the Montenegrin prosecution, numerous retrials and inconsistent, ad hoc rulings by the Montenegrin court system. In 2001, the prison sentence was reinstated to 13 years by the Montenegrin courts.

In the late 1990s, Laušević left Yugoslavia for the United States. It is speculated that the move was made due to possible revenge by families of the deceased. He has been living in the United States since and is currently fighting deportation proceedings.
Žarko Laušević was born on January 19, 1960, in Cetinje, Montenegro (one of the republics, a federal unit, that comprised the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at that time). He fell in love with theater and acting in his early teens, and got his first TV role at the age of eighteen. In 1982, immediately upon graduating from the University of Belgrade’s Academy of Theatrical Arts, he was cast in his first lead film role. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he received mostly lead roles in 25 movies, 17 TV shows and numerous theatrical productions all across Yugoslavia. During this period, he became one of Yugoslavia's most popular movie and theatrical actors. Although young, handsome and very charismatic, it was his dramatic skills and range as an actor that propelled him to fame across the former Yugoslavia.
In May 1990, Laušević accepted the lead role in a politically controversial theater production. The opening night performance at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade was violently disrupted by nationalist extremists. Subsequently, Laušević started to receive numerous and repeated threats of bodily harm and even death. His car was vandalized around this time. In these violent and turbulent political times of Milošević's Yugoslavia where lawlessness against, and murders of, the regime's opponents often went unchecked by the authorities, these threats were not to be taken lightly. Laušević became increasingly concerned for his own personal safety and that of his family. Upon recommendation of the police, he applied for and was granted a license to carry a gun.

In the early 1990s, Laušević's visible opposition to the civil wars in Yugoslavia (and hence to the Milošević regime) made him a target of ongoing media attacks in the republics of Serbia and Montenegro. He was often harassed when he went to public places.

It was in this charged atmosphere that a tragic event occurred on a hot summer's night in Podgorica (Montenegro). On the evening of July 30, 1993, 33-year-old Laušević appeared at the premiere performance of a theatre production in the coastal town of Budva. Returning to Podgorica, Laušević and his brother, Branimir, stopped at a walk-in fast food kiosk called 'Apple' around midnight. The argument broke out between them and the group of locals hooligans, which escalated into a fist fight. Laušević fired 13 rounds from the CZ-99 gun, which he was licensed for, killing 20-year-old Dragor Pejović and 21-year-old Radovan Vučinić and also wounding Andrija Kazić. Quoting from the closing statement by the judge in his last trial: “Žarko Laušević was beaten on the ground and had the right to defend himself. In this difficult situation, he managed to pull the gun out of his bag and shoot several bullets at the attackers.” Two of the assailants were gravely wounded and eventually died; a third was wounded and fled the scene together with three others.

Since the mid-2000s, Kusturica's primary residence has been in Drvengrad, a town built for his film Life Is a Miracle, in the Mokra Gora region of Serbia. He had portions of the historic village reconstructed for the film. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska since 9 November 2011.
Born to Murat Kusturica, a journalist employed at the Sarajevo's Secretariat of Information, and Senka Numankadić, a court secretary,Emir grew up as the only child of a secular Bosniak family in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, then a constituent republic within Yugoslavia.

A lively kid, young Emir was by his own admission a borderline delinquent while growing up in the Sarajevo neighbourhood of Gorica. Through his father's friendship with the well-known director Hajrudin "Šiba" Krvavac, 17-year-old Emir got a small part in Krvavac's 1972 Walter Defends Sarajevo, a partisan film funded by the Yugoslav state.
n 1978, after graduating from the film school (FAMU) at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Kusturica began directing made-for-TV short films in Yugoslavia.

He made his feature film debut in 1981 with Do You Remember Dolly Bell?, a coming-of-age drama that won the prestigious Silver Lion for Best First Work at that year's Venice Film Festival. The same year, at the age of 27, he became lecturer at the newly established Academy of Performing Arts (ASU) in Sarajevo, a job that he performed until 1988. He was also art director of Open Stage Obala (Otvorena scena Obala).

Kusturica's second feature film, When Father Was Away on Business (1985), earned a Palme d'Or at Cannes and five Yugoslav movie awards, as well as a nomination for an American Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Kusturica wrote the screenplays for both Do You Remember Dolly Bell? and When Father Was Away on Business in collaboration with Abdulah Sidran. In 1989 Kusturica earned more accolades for Time of the Gypsies, a film about Romani culture and the exploitation of their youth. In 1989 he was a member of the jury at the 16th Moscow International Film Festival.

She began acting in 1960 and her first appearance was in France Štiglic's film The Ninth Circle (Deveti krug), for which she won the Golden Arena for Best Actress at the Pula Film Festival, the Yugoslav national film awards.

She won her second Golden Arena for starring in Zdravko Randić's 1971 film The Bet (Opklada)

Gidra died in 1993 at the age of sixty. His widow Ljiljana (7 September 1931 - 17 July 2005) died twelve years later.He appeared in many former Yugoslav films, and even some international production, usually playing villains. The best known of such roles is Kondor, German secret agent in popular 1972 film Valter brani Sarajevo. He is, however, best known for the comical role of family patriarch Žika Pavlović, which he played 10 times in Lude godine series of films.

Dragan Nikolić studied at Dramatic Arts Academy in Belgrade. In 1967 he starred in classic film Kad budem mrtav i beo, which was the beginning of a prolific career that lasts to this day. Dragan Nikolić has since appeared in many films of different genres and portrayed various characters, becoming one of the most iconic and recognizable actors in Serbian cinema.

Of all of his roles arguably the best known is Prle, wisecracking World War II resistance fighter whom he portrayed in cult 1970s TV series Otpisani and Povratak otpisanih.His wife is the popular Serbian actress, Milena Dravić with whom he co-hosted popular 1970s TV variety show "Obraz uz obraz".
Filmography:

Kad budem mrtav i beo (1967), Tri sata za ljubav (1968), Horoskop (1969), Bube u glavi (1970), Mlad i zdrav kao ruža (1971), Poslednja stanica (1971), Uloga moje porodice u svjetskoj revoluciji' (1971),  Otpisani (1974), Kičma (1975), Devojački most (1976), Povratak otpisanih (1976), Tren (1978), Nacionalna klasa (1979), Ko to tamo peva (1980), The Falcon (1981), Lov u mutnom (1981), Neka druga žena (1981), Sezona mira u Parizu (1981), Idemo dalje (1982), Nešto izmedju (1983), Balkan Express (1983), Čudo neviđeno (1984), Groznica ljubavi (1984), Život je lep (1985), Miss (1986), Obećana zemlja (198), Protestni album (1986), Lutalica (1987), Čavka (1988), Migrations (1988), Happy End (1989), skušavanje đavola (1989), Poslednji krug u Monci (1989), The Meeting Point (1989), Original falsifikata (1991), Tito i ja (1992), Velika frka (1992), Tri karte za Holivud (1993), Biće bolje (1994), Ni na nebu ni na zemlji (1994), Seobe (1994), Podzemlje (Underground) (1995), Urnebesna tragedija (1995), Cabaret Balkan (1998), Belo odelo (1998) The Dagger (1999), Ona voli Zvezdu (2001), Virtualna stvarnost (2001), Zona Zamfirova (2002), Noć uz video (2002),  Lavirint (2002), Pljačka Trećeg rajha (2004),  I Have Something Important to Tell You (2005), Ivkova slava (2005), Zvezde ljubavi (2005), Potera za Sreć(k)om (2005), Šejtanov ratnik (2006), Crni Gruja i kamen mudrosti (2007), S. O. S - Spasite naše duše (2007), Promeni me (2007), Na lepom plavom Dunavu (2007), Selo gori, a baba se češlja (2007–2010), Četvrti čovek (2008), The Tour (2008), St. George Shoots the Dragon (2009), Zona mrtvih (2009), 72 Days (2010)