Aleksandar Petrović
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For the Croatian basketball player and coach, see Aleksandar Petrović (basketball).
Aleksandar "Saša" Petrović (1929–1994) was a well known Serbian film director who was one of the leading European directors in the 1960s. Two of his films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film : Three in 1966 and I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Feather Gatherers) in 1967. The latter film won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 1973, Petrović was forced to leave his post at the Belgrade Film Academy after being accused of holding anti-communist views by the communist government of Yugoslavia. In late December 1989 he joined the founding committee of the Democratic Party in Serbia, the first opposition anti-communist party in Serbia.
