Gavrilo Princip

The production company Paradox Film points out that it had particularly good ratings in the Nordic countries, reaching ninth place in the Netherlands, sixth in Sweden, and eighth in Croatia on the list of the 10 most watched films.
"This is important news for Serbian cinematography and Serbian historiography," a press release of the production company Paradox Film said.

The award ceremony began at noon in the Palace of Serbia.

The Belgrade City Assembly will on Thursday pass decisions to name several streets and squares in the Serbian capital.

In the municipality of Vracar, a street will be named after Russian diplomat Nikolai Hartvig, while the former Financial Park in Savski Venac will be named after Gavrilo Princip.

A monument to Princip is already located in the park.

The Belgrade City Assembly will on Thursday pass decisions to name several streets and squares in the Serbian capital.

In the municipality of Vracar, a street will be named after Russian diplomat Nikolai Hartvig, while the former Financial Park in Savski Venac will be named after Gavrilo Princip.

A monument to Gavrilo Princip was unveiled on Sunday in Belgrade in the presence of Serbian and RS presidents Tomislav Nikolic and Milorad Dodik.

Princip was a member of the Young Bosnia (Mlada Bosna) movement in the early 20th century, who on Vidovdan (St. Vitus Day, June 28) 1914 in Sarajevo assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

A monument to Gavrilo Princip will be placed by June 28 in Financial Park in Belgrade, City Manager Goran Vesic has announced.

The park is located between Nemanjina, Sarajevska, and Admirala Geprata streets.

A monument dedicated to Gavrilo Princip, whose murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand helped to spark World War I, will be inaugurated in the Serbian capital later this month.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade Victor awards for best film at the 43rd International Film Festival Fest went to the Jordanian-UAE co-production Wolf in the main competitive programme and Serbia's No One's Child in the national selection.

Late Sunday's award ceremony officially closed the festival, which featured 90 premieres in various programmes from February 27.

BELGRADE - The award of the International Federation of Film Critics Fipresci Serbia for the best movie made in Serbia in 2014 went to Top je bio vreo (The Cannon Was Hot) produced by Tihomir Stanic.

The award for the best director went to Slobodan Skerlic, while the award for the best actress was presented to Anita Mancic both for The Cannon Was Hot.

BELGRADE - An exhibition entitled Not so Long Ago... Fellow Citizens, which shows the life of Young Bosnia members before the Sarajevo assassination of Austro-Hungarian prince Franz Ferdinand, will be opened at Belgrade's Kalemegdan fortress on Tuesday as part of the programme marking the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One.