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We Will Be the World Champions (Serbian: Бићемо прваци света, Bićemo prvaci sveta) is a 2015 Serbian sports drama film directed by Darko Bajić. It was one of six films shortlisted by Serbia to be their submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, but lost out to Enclave. The film is based on the true story of the Yugoslavia national basketball team who won the 1970 FIBA World Championship.
Plot
The film tells the story of the four men who founded the Yugoslav basketball school and who significantly contributed to the development of basketball in Europe - Nebojša Popović, Borislav Stanković, Radomir Šaper and Aleksandar Nikolić. The main event is the final match of the 1970 FIBA World Championship, held in Ljubljana between the national teams of Yugoslavia and the United States.
Cast
The Four Pioneers
Strahinja Blažić as Nebojša Popović
Aleksandar Radojičić as Bora Stanković
Miloš Biković as Radomir Šaper, the president of the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia
Marko Janketić as Aleksandar Nikolić,
Team Roster
Sergej Trifunović as Ranko Žeravica, the head coach
Igor Kovač as Ratomir Tvrdić
Jovan Belobrković as Ljubodrag Simonović
Dražen Lakić as Vinko Jelovac
Miodrag Radonjić as Trajko Rajković
Toni Cahunek as Aljoša Žorga
Stefan Kapičić as Dragan Kapičić. Kapičić plays the role of his own father.
Jure Henigman as Ivo Daneu
Krešimir Petar Ćosić as Krešimir Ćosić. Ćosić plays the role of his own father.
Matko Knesaurek as Damir Šolman
Goran Bogdan as Nikola Plećaš
Peđa Marjanović as Dragutin Čermak
Robert Kurbaša as Petar Skansi
Other characters
Leon Lučev as Major Dane Štukalo
Iva Babic as Maja Bedeković-Popović, wife of Nebojša Popović and Crvena zvezda player
Nina Janković as Ljubica Otašević, Crvena zvezda player
Radovan Vujović as Srđan Kalember, Crvena zvezda player
Stevan Piale as Aleksandar Gec, Crvena zvezda player
Nebojša Dugalić as Vladimir Dedijer
Jasa Jamnik as Stane Dolanc
Miša Nestorović as Aristotle Onassis
Dejan Denić as Radivoj Korać
Boban Marjanović as Jānis Krūmiņš (uncredited cameo)
Lazar Ristovski as Tito
John Savage as William Jones, the Secretary General of the FIBA.
See also
List of basketball films
References
External links
We Will Be the World Champions at IMDb
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