Anica Lazic Ristovski: Meltdown, Then an Award in Calabria

Anica Lazic Ristovski received the award for best international actress at a film festival in Calabria, Alo reported on September 16 at 11:35 a.m. The award came just days after she married Lazar Ristovski, and the trip leading up to it was not without drama: the actress described going through a “small nervous breakdown” over problems with a flight and her luggage.

Ristovski and Anica married in early September in Belgrade, in a small circle of family and friends. According to Telegraf, Anica is 39 years younger than the actor. Right after the wedding, the couple traveled to Italy, where they stayed at Seragiumenta Castle, near the town of Altomonte in Calabria.

Anica confirmed the wedding herself on Instagram, with a photo of her wedding band and engagement ring, along with a short caption.

Mrs. Lazic Ristovski, Anica Lazic Ristovski wrote alongside the photo of the jewelry.

What the trip to the castle looked like

Before reaching Calabria, the actress described a string of flight complications on Instagram. First, her connecting flight was delayed.

Who loves early morning flights? Not me. A four hour layover turned into an eight hour delay, Anica Lazic Ristovski wrote in a post from the trip.

When the flight finally took off, another delay followed, this time because of bad weather in Rome. The plane eventually landed in Calabria, but without the luggage.

We landed in Calabria where a new surprise was waiting for us. Not a single suitcase from Rome was loaded onto the plane, the actress wrote in a post from the trip.

This is where the two sources diverge on how the story ended. Alo reports that the suitcases were “lost, then returned,” while Anica, in the posts cited by Telegraf, does not mention that the luggage eventually arrived, only that not a single suitcase from Rome made it onto the flight to Calabria. What exactly happened to the luggage after that does not come through in the available posts.

When they finally reached their accommodation, Anica summed up the state of the trip in another post, alongside a photo of the castle where they were staying.

After a mini nervous breakdown we arrive at the beautiful Seragiumenta Castle, which was our home in Calabria, the actress wrote.

An award despite the chaos on the road

Despite the flight complications, the stay in Calabria ultimately brought good news for Anica as well. She attended the film festival dressed in black and received the award for best international actress there, a recognition that, according to Alo, drew a wave of congratulations from all sides. The news of the award thus became, just a couple of days after the post about the wedding band and engagement ring, the second piece of good news the couple has shared since the wedding in Belgrade.

The posts about the castle and the trip also drew reactions on the social network X. Under one of them, a user referenced Anica’s earlier posts about the castle and raised a question.

Anica Lazic wants a castle, is that why she married Lazar Ristovski, one X user asked.

According to Telegraf, more comments on the same topic followed under the post. Neither Anica nor Ristovski has officially responded to the comment.

The castle post and the news of the award describe the same trip from two angles: the flight and luggage chaos that Anica recounted herself on Instagram, and the award she received at the festival in Calabria. Neither Alo nor Telegraf report when the couple is returning to Belgrade, or whether new trips are planned.