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Zivojinovic also starred alongside Orson Welles, Yul Brynner,
Franco Nero and other famous foreign peers in Battle of Neretva,
the most expensive Yugoslav movie ever, nominated for the 1970
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
His role as Vladimir Peric Valter, a World War Two communist
guerrilla, in Walter Defends Sarajevo made him a star in China.
Zivojinovic took on more than 300 film and television roles in
Yugoslavia, often as World War Two partisans, and reached the
peak of his popularity in the 1980s.
Zivojinovic died late on Sunday in a Belgrade hospital from
several chronic ailments and after having a leg amputated,
according to Tanjug.
During the 1990s wars caused by the break-up of the Yugoslav
federation, Zivojinovic backed the ruling Socialist Party of
Serbia and then-President Slobodan Milosevic, and served as a
parliamentary deputy. In 2002, after Milosevic's fall, he ran
for Serbian president but garnered only 3.3 percent of the vote.
(Reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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