Hollywood actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were in the former Yugoslav republic of Montenegro yesterday in the mediaeval coastal town of Budva following a visit to Bosnian refugees.

The owner of the Splendid hotel near Budva said that Brad Pitt knows Montenegro from when he shot one of his first films The Dark Side of The Sun there in 1988.

"Brad Pitt told me that he had wanted to show Montenegro to his wife as he had nice memories of Perast, Sveti Stefan and Kotor where he had shot one of his first movies, at the beginning of his career in 1980s," hotel owner Zarko Radulovic said.

"He told me they could bring the kids here for a vacation as they like it and the nature is nice."

The Hollywood power couple were in Bosnia on Monday to visit internally displaced Bosnians still living in collective centres, often in appalling conditions, 14 years after the end of the war. Jolie is a goodwill ambassador for the UN's refugee agency UNHCR.

The actors were due to fly back to Italy late yesterday. Ms Jolie is filming The Tourist in Venice with director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who was behind the critically-acclaimed 2007 German film The Lives of Others.

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