Žarko Laušević, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Žarko Laušević

Serbian actor

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1960

Place of Birth: Cetinje, Old Royal Capital Cetinje, Montenegro

Profession: actor

Nationality: Serbia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Žarko Lauševic (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ????????; Serbian pronunciation: [?a?rk? lâu???it?]) (born 19 January) is a Serbian actor.
Considered to be one of the most talented actors of his generation, he became a leading actor early in his career.
By the age of 33, he was a major star across the former Yugoslavia on both stage and screen, displaying a wide range of dramatic skills. In July 1993, Lauševic entered into a quarrel with a group of local youths, together with his brother.
This escalated into a fist fight, culminating in Lauševic firing multiple rounds from his handgun, killing two of the youths and seriously wounding one.
Sentenced by a Montenegrin (republic) court to prison initially, his conviction was overturned by the Yugoslav (appellate) court on the grounds that the first-instance court had improperly dismissed Lauševic's self-defense argument, and the punishment was drastically reduced.
Lauševic served 4 years and 7 months in prison before his release.
But he faced further legal battles.
There were appeals by the Montenegrin prosecution, numerous retrials and inconsistent, ad hoc rulings by the Montenegrin court system.
In 2001, the prison sentence was reinstated to 13 years by the Montenegrin courts. In the late 1990s, Lauševic left Yugoslavia for the United States.
It is speculated that the move was made due to possible revenge by families of the deceased.
He lived in the United States for two decades, returning to Serbia in 2014.