51 Sarplaninac were registered of which 11 were from my kennel. The judge who was designated was Mr. Guido Vandoni (I), but after endless waiting it was Mr. Kuffer (Luxemburg) who came to judge our breed. We were very satisfied about the results from the dogs of my kennel: in the Open Class Male in which 4 male dogs were registered Qarahoum was first – Excellent, CAC, Qaravouk fourth – Excellent, Qaradag – Excellent not classified, only Qarasultan got the mark Very Good; in the Puppy Class Female my Seka was the Best Puppy, and her 4 sisters all got the mark “Promising”. In the Class Male Champions Orkan was fourth – Excellent, and in the Class of Female Champions Odra was second with RCAC. Paramount was the victory and proclamation of Meda ( already 7 years old) for World Champion, he was the father of our last 2 litters “Q” and “S”, present at this exhibition.
All the owners from the dogs of my kennel were dressed in Serbian national costumes, all except Sultan’s owner. I registered a group, in the front were female puppies and just behind them the 4 brothers. Although the group was not classified I think the audience noticed it.
Here are complete results from this important manifestation as well as a few pictures mainly from the dogs of “Les Montagnes Serbes”.
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My
aunt’s daughter went to the USA 2 years after I settled in Belgium.
We met twice since 1963 and in that year she planned to come to Belgrade
in June. So I took a plane to Belgrade to spend a few days together with
her. During this travel, without car, only with the camera in the hand
I did not bring many useful memories for my site. I did one travel together
with “Piksi” (breeder and judge Nenad Stojmenovic) and “uncle
Voja” (judge and breeder Mr. Anastasijevic). We went to the town
and suborns of Smederevska Palanka. I saw a couple of nice dogs like Kolos
Alano Molos, son of Jan od Pece and Alfa-Mici, Arap’s grandchildren,
one female daughter of Cezar and Alma, the dog Djavol; at Misa Babic,
judge and breeder: Fred, son of Dik and Amira, Ada, daughter of Dingo-Ben
and Agica, etc. In that time I didn’t like that much Fred but now
when I am again looking at the videocassette, after getting used to “big
headed Sarplaninci”, I do like him. Fred is brother of beautiful
Fili, uncle Voja’s bitch as well as Fejda and Freni, which I already
showed to you (see travel 15b).
On 29th June my cousin and I, together with Mr. Zoran Ristic visited Mr.
Bane Jelovac, also for many years’ breeder and judge from the village
of Belegis on the Danube bank, not far from Belgrade. He recently lost
his only son from appendicitis complication and he talked a lot about
that. Apart of female Dina, Indi (daughter of Minor and Ambra od Vuka),
Linda, the original bitch fighter, Sep, big male of 78 cm of very dark
color and very hairy, I discovered Musa Karabeg, called Aga. As per Mr.
Bane Jelovac story this dog was living “incognito” in some
storage room and was proclaimed sterile. Mr. Jelovac brought him at his
place and later got offspring. -01.jpg)
I liked, this already old dog, Karabas with very soft walk. He was the
son of famous Karabeg about whom I spoke number of times. He is the only
one from whom I have a few pictures from all the dogs, which I saw at
Mr. Jelovac and it can now be found in the pedigree of my last two litters,
from Taras od Piksija.
During my visit to Belgrade the film “Underground” from Emir
Kusturica had his first show. My cousin and I went to see the film, which
forced me to laugh on the parody of Tito’s period and to cry because
of disappearance of the country which was mine, in which I was born –
Yugoslavia. This disappearance of Yugoslavia was presented as one island
from which parts of land were separating and drowning in the water.
“Man founds strength to survive even in the worst
conditions…” Emir Kusturica
Emir Kusturica studied film art in Prague in Czechoslovakia. After studies
he is returning to Yugoslavia and working for television. He made a few
TV film. In 1981 he made his first film “Do you remember Dolly Bell?
for which he got the Golden Lion award in film festival in Venice. Thanks
to this success he plans another ambitious film, which has for a theme
feeling of fear in Tito’s Yugoslavia. 
The name of the film is “Father on the business trip” for
which he got Golden Palm award in Cannes film festival in 1985. The trademark
of Kusturica, mixture of surrealism, tragedy and poetry will appear in
1990 thanks to the film “Time of gypsies”. Demanded in the
USA he made film “Arizona dream” for which he got the Golden
Bear award in Berlin film festival in 1992. “Underground”
was made in 1995 and was awarded with Golden Palm in Cannes film festival.
This film provoked polemic with bad intentions. Lot of people could not
realize critical vision of the author in fantastic and absurd scenes of
this masterpiece. Disappointed, he is returning to his first love, gypsies
with the comedy “Black cat, white cat” made in 1998. After
that “Super 8 Stories” in 2001, “Hungry Heart”
in 2003, “Life is a miracle” which was awarded with the price
of National Education in Cannes in 2004.
Acting from time to time, Kusturica was together with Daniel Auteuil and
Juliette Binoche in “La Veuve de Saint-Pierre” from Patrice
Leconte, he is replica of Nick Nolte and Tcheky Karyo in “Man from
Riviera”, remake of the famous “Bob le flambeur” from
Jean-Pierre Melville made by Neil Jordan and which was shown in 2003.