The legendary Yugoslav film "Feather gatherers":by Sasa Petrovic was shot in the vicinity of Sombor and Apatin. The Roma who lived in the neighboring also got a chance to appear in a movie. Thus, quite by accident, Marko Petrovic, then a fourteen-year-old child from Backi Monostor, got a role. Although hundreds of extras were hired from the village, he stood out because he was given the role of a groom whom the fatal Tisa would marry. However, he could easily have lost his role because his mother was against her son getting married so young. She got the permission when they explained to her that this is not a real marriage but only a movie one. "We were playing in the street, it was December. They called me and told me - you are coming with us to make a movie. I did not know what a movie was, because in my neighborhood they just gave us electricity" - Petrovic recalls the details of the shooting. "I could have bought a" fig "with that money at the time. Mine had horses, and with that money we could have bought two more horses and a chariot. That movie."Feather gatherers":saw him for the first time in the cinema in Sombor. The first reaction was: "Am I in a movie too"?

"We all went to the village together to watch the movie. They approached me on a bus and asked for my autograph, and I did not know what they were asking of me because I did not even know how to write," he said. He also has the film on tape and sometimes watches it. After the film "Feather gatherers"he had offers to make a film in Romania, but did not get permission from his parents and thus ended his short film career. He also remembers the meetings with Olivera and Marco Katarina from the shooting of the film and later.

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