Ljubisa Samardzic

The first guests arrived to Mokra Gora yesterday - celebrated Italian director Paolo Virzi, French director of photography Michel Amathieu, Chinese-Canadian film director Johnny Ma, a French-Russian-Kazakhstani chess grandmaster Vladislav Tkachiev and director Karim Aïnouz.

Famous actor Ljubisa Samardzic died in Belgrade at the age of 81 after a serious illness, Belgrade media reported.

He spent almost a month at the hospital treatment at the Clinical Center of Serbia, at the Department of Hematology, because his health condition was extremely bad.

Mihajlovic who won the City of Belgrade's Zlatni Beocug (Golden Ring) in 1999, has decided to return the award in protest against the city's decision this year to hand an award to Zeljko Mitrovic, the owner of the commercial TV station Pink, for his contribution to culture.