He Was an Indispensable Part of the Artistic Elite, Helped the Spanish Civil War: Who Was Dida de Majo from "Shadows over the Balkans"?
When the character of Dida de Majo appears in the popular series "Shadows over the Balkans" (played by Petar Benčina), he embodies the spirit of interwar Belgrade – he is skillful, dangerous, elegant, and connected to the deepest layers of the underworld. However, the historical David Dida de Majo was a personality whose biography surpasses even the boldest scenarios of Dragan Bjelogrlić. He was not just an opium king from the screen; he was an artist, a falsifier with ideals, a resistance fighter, and a victim of all the great ideologies of the 20th century.