Vlasta Velisavljevic was admitted to the hospital on March 18 in poor health. The next day, he was transferred to the “Dragiša Mišović” Clinical Hospital after his condition further deteriorated.
Vlastimir Velisavljević was born on July 28, 1926 in Belgrade. He started acting in 1938 at the “Roda” theater, which was led by Nusic’s daughter Gita Predic.
Vlasta was arrested in 1943 and taken to the Nazi camp Dortmund Herde, from which he managed to escape with the help of a master in the factory who gave him a German pass, thanks to which he managed to get back to Belgrade.
After the war, he tried to escape to America with several friends, but was caught and taken to the prison on Ada Ciganlija. Unusual, because he adores Russia and Russian culture.
He also spent three years in prison on Goli Otok, where he was taken in 1950 because, as he says, he did not want to betray his godfather, a colonel in the JNA, who was accused of being a Stalinist.
When the law on rehabilitation was passed, he submitted a request and was rehabilitated as a detainee on Goli Otok.
At the time of his arrest, he was a third-year student at the Theater Academy in Belgrade, where he later graduated, in the class of Mate Milosevic, which also included Olivera Markovic, Djuza Stojiljkovic, Pepi Lakovic, and Mihailo Viktorovic.
In his later acting career, he played as many as 350 roles in theater, film and television. Certainly the most famous theatrical role is the one from the play The Beetle in the Ear, which he played more than 1,600 times on the JDP stage.
Of the television roles, many will single out the role of Master Djordjevic in Better Life, and the younger audience remembers him for the role of Grandma Nate in the film Little Night Music.
He was a lifelong honorary member of the Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade.
He has a daughter Dubravka from his first marriage.
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