The performance occurred in semi-clandestine circumstances in front of some 40 audience members on a ramshackle makeshift stage in painter Mića Popović's personal atelier.
With her future husband, Milorad Bata Mihailović and his friends from the class Mića Popović, Petar Omčikus, Kossa Bokchan and Vera Božičković Popović in the 1947 year she went to Adriatic Coast where they formed an art commune “Zadar group”.
Miodrag "Mića" Popović (23 June 1923 – 22 December 1996) was a Yugoslavian painter, experimental filmmaker and one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave.
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Founders – Živorad Stojković, Borka Božović and Jovan Despotović, soon joined HE Vida Ognjenović, ambassador, writer and theater director, Dušan Kovačević, academic and playwright, Emir Kusturica, film director, Djordje Milojević, film producer, and other, as members of the Steering Group, and then all the winners of this award.
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Together with Bata Mihajlović, Petar Omčikus, Mileta Andrejević, Ljubinka Jovanović, Kosara Bokšan, and Vera Božicković, he went to Zadar in 1947 and formed the famous "Zadar group".
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The first president of the Steering Group was elected Emir Kusturica at the inaugural session of 17 December 1997.
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The Zadar group comprised also young and gifted painters such as Mića Popović, Ljubinka Jovanović, Petar Omčikus, Kosa Bokšan and Vera Božičković.
The painter Mića Popović created a huge painting based on Jusepe de Ribera's Martyrdom of St. Philip, depicting skullcap-wearing Albanians hoisting Martinović on a wooden cross.