Savo Pređa was a Serbian Partisan general in World War II and, later, governor of Bileća prison.
He was also a director of OZNA for eastern Bosnia for a short period, after that, he was deputy minister of interior.
Savo was well known for being close to Aleksandar Ranković.
He was also the establisher of the Yugoslavian automobile-motor association.
Pređa wrote the script for the movie Walter Defends Sarajevo, that used to be very popular in former Yugoslavia and China.