The World Champions

Young journalist Nevena (Nevena Ristic) is given a task to do a documentary story about the history of domestic basketball, which should be broadcasted after the Championship in Turkey. She doesn't know anything about basketball, but her grandfather (Rade Serbedzija), a very important character of this story, refers her to only one person - "the father of famous Yugoslav basketball school" - Nebojsa Popovic(Zarko Radic). Along with Nevena's personal life we also follow this big interview with Nebojsa. Through his vivid memories we are introduced to the beginnings of basketball game in our country, the founding of basketball club "Crvena Zvezda", the formation of the national team and the first successes. Through his memories we are also introduced to his friendship with another three very respectable persons in domestic basketball - Radomir Saper, Bora Stankovic and Aleksandar Nikolic. Through the story about their friendship and their professional and private experiences Nevena learns something more about completely different way of life during the communism. Central person of Nebojsa's memory is ex-Yugoslav major who had a task to keep and control players and representation and who often had a conflict with them. Actually, he is Nevena's grandfather, Dane Stukalo, a retired general nowadays. Due to this fact Nevena has a problem to finish the interview with Nebojsa. But, on the end, Dane Stukalo and Nebojsa Popovic meet up again after 30 years. Our story stopped here and in 1970 when our representation won the very first gold medal in Ljubljana.

Genres: Drama, History, Sport

Country of production: Serbia

Original title: Prvaci sveta

Year of production:2016

No of episodes: 12x60' HD

Screenplay: Gordan Mihic Nebojsa Romcevic, Ognjen Svilicic

Director: Darko Bajic Cast: Strahinja Blazic, Zarko Radic, Leon Lucev, Rade Serbedzija, Nevena Ristic, Aleksandar Radojicic, Milos Bikovic, Marko Janketic, Dragan Micanovic, Radivoje Bukvic, Sergej Trifunovic, Slaven Doslo, Iva Babic, Nebojsa Dugalic, Jure Henigman, Goran Bogdan, John Savage, Tamara Dragicevic, Nina Jankovic, Stefan Kapicic, Igor Kovac, Robert Kurbasa, Kresimir Petar Cosic, Lazar Ristovski, Katarina Cas...