Question: When did the country, whose co-official language was used by the director of Group Portrait with a Lady, first attend the Olympics as an independent team?

Aleksandar "Saša" Petrović (14 January 1929 – 20 August 1994) was a French-born acclaimed Serbian and Yugoslav film director who was one of the leading European directors in the 1960s and one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Two of his films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: "Three" in 1966 and "I Even Met Happy Gypsies" ("Feather Gatherers") in 1967. The latter (original title "Skupljaci perja") was the first movie that presented the existence of Gypsies in society and everyday life; it was also the first full-feature film where Gypsies spoke their own language, Roma. Most roles were interpreted by real Gypsies; this was their movie. "As a child, I observed them and saw in these people faith and irrationality," said Petrović "I Even Met Happy Gypsies" won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival; it also received a nomination for a Golden Globe. In 1967 Petrović was a member of the jury at the 17th Berlin International Film Festival. <SEP> It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the novel of the same name. Group Portrait with a Lady () is a 1977 German-French drama film directed by Aleksandar Petrović. <SEP> Kosovo, a former autonomous province, made its Olympic debut as an independent national team at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, formed as a joint state by only Montenegro and Serbia after the breakup of Yugoslavia, from 1992–2002 (due to UN ban allowed to compete as Independent Olympic Participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics and was not allowed to compete at 1994 Winter Olympics)Two of the successor nations (Croatia and Slovenia) began to compete as independent teams at the Olympics starting at the 1992 Winter Games and Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 1992 Summer Games and as of the 2008 Summer Olympics, all six successor nations, former socialist republics, have participated independently. <SEP> the games saw 10,625 athletes compete, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries. there were 301 medal events in 28 different sports. athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 summer olympics that all countries with a national olympic committee were in attendance. 2004 also marked the return of the olympic games to the city where they began. having previously hosted the olympics in 1896, athens became one of only four cities to have hosted the summer olympic games on two separate occasions at the time (together with paris, london and los angeles <SEP> It is the official language of Serbia, co-official in the territory of Kosovo, and one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Serbian (српски / srpski, pronounced [sr̩̂pskiː]) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. In addition, it is a recognized minority language in Montenegro, where it is spoken by the relative majority of the population, as well as in Croatia, North Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. <SEP> the malagasy language is of malayo-polynesian origin and is generally spoken throughout the island. the numerous dialects of malagasy, which are generally mutually intelligible, can be clustered under one of two subgroups: eastern malagasy, spoken along the eastern forests and highlands including the merina dialect of antananarivo, and western malagasy, spoken across the western coastal plains. french became the official language during the colonial period, when madagascar came under the authority of france. in the first national constitution of 1958, malagasy and french were named the official languages of the malagasy republic. madagascar is a francophone country, and french is mostly spoken as a second language among the educated population and used for international communication.no official languages were recorded in the constitution of 1992, although malagasy was identified as the national language. nonetheless, many sources still claimed that malagasy and french were official languages, eventually leading a citizen to initiate a legal case against the state in april 2000, on the grounds that the publication of official documents only in the french language was unconstitutional. the high constitutional court observed in its decision that, in the absence of a language law, french still had the character of an official language.in the constitution of 2007, malagasy remained the national language while official languages were reintroduced: malagasy, french, and english. english was removed as an official language from the constitution approved by voters in the november 2010 referendum. the outcome of the referendum, and its consequences for official and national language policy, are not recognized by the political opposition, who cite lack of transparency and inclusiveness in the way the election was organized by the high transitional authority.