Who else would be Prince Mihailo than Žarko

A day passes, a year never, was the title of the prison autobiography of the actor Žarko Laušević, who died today at the age of 63. It may seem to us that July 30, 1993 in Titograd has long since passed, as a kind of fate and doom for our civil society, and in the background of all the active war fronts during the nineties, in which Žarko Laušević actually died. However, the brilliance of this last Yugoslav acting star will never fade.

Žarko was the biggest offshoot of the eternal and logical migration that brings talented Montenegrins to the Belgrade acting academy and then to the capital's acting theater division or the Serbian-SFRJ film cinematheque, among greats such as Petar Banićević, Vlada Popović, Petar Božović. Born in Cetinje in 1960, he studied at FDU in Minja Dedić's class with Sonja Savić, Zoran Cvijanović, Svetislav Bulet Goncić, Branimir Brstin, Oliver Ježin, and also the recently deceased, Andrej Maričić.

For a long time, and like no one before him, Laušević was a kind of meteor who fell into the decadence of domestic feature films resulting from the black wave during the 80s. The last to catch a connection with the dying genre of partisan film (July 13, Igman March) and in just five years since his debut in 82' in the love drama Persecution, reached the Golden Arena in Pula for the leading male role in the melodrama Officer with a Rose In 1987, the end of an era and shared cinematography was marked by his acting peak - roles in the series Grey House, movies Shmeker, Brača po Matera, Stella, television dramas: Russian artistic experiment, Hasanaginica, Solemn obligation... And when there was, who else would be Prince Mihailo in the series Vuk Karadzic or Miloš Obilić in Kosovo color, it was undividedly clear and expected that he, Žarko Laušević, who seems to have inherited the informal throne that before him belonged only to Dragan Nikolić.

But, between the televised Obilić and the theatrical St. Sava, fate intervened, which in some magical way was anticipated by the plays. October Fest, Black Bomber i Better than running away. It's hot because of the threats about the show Saint Sava of the Zenica Theater for which he received the Sterija Award, and in the growing national frenzy in Belgrade and Serbia in the early 90s, he acquired a gun for personal security. The gun went off in the third act in the Apple cafe in Podgorica, which was screened in the recent non-fiction series pad Bojan Vuletić, which just finished last weekend on RTS with Milan Marić in the lead role.

Sveti Sava in the JDP, the Eighth Session, the Yogurt Revolution, the Dynamo - Zvezda match in Maksimir are events that unfortunately continue to this day, up to the Vladislav Ribnikar school, the villages of Malo Orašje and Dubona. Žarko's career and not only film, but also theater since Kanjoš Macedonović do Theatrical illusions, and not only his - it was interrupted at the climax, so that after years spent serving his sentence and immigration in New York, America, he would return to us in a kind of second professional and life half as an equally credible mature actor in series: Shadows over the Balkans, Roots, Civil Servant, Time of Evil, Kalkan Circles and movies: The Stinking Fairy Tale, The Summer I Learned to Fly, The Heroes of Halliard when he bowed for the last time in front of the audience.

Once upon a time, the writer Jovan Radulović told me when Žarko and Slavko (Štimac) were moving from Ceremonial duties u Brothers by mother according to his work, no one has ever seen such bon vivants. From Cica Perović to Nebojša Glogovac, Laušević was another acting engine with internal combustion, now we can truly say the last inimitable.