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Bekim Fehmiu
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Bekim Fehmiu
NationalityAlbanian
OccupationActor
Years active1953 - 1998

Bekim Fehmiu (born 1 June, 1936) is the most prominent Albanian-Yugoslav film actor and one of the most famous actors in ex-Yugoslavia.

Life

The Fehmiu family comes from Gjakova, however they have also lived in Sarajevo, Shkodër, and Prizren. His father, Ibrahim Fehmiu, was a well-known Albanian patriot and educator who helped open many schools in Kosovo and Albania.[1] All of his seven children acquired college degrees, which was unusual for that time period.[2] Because of his activism, Ibrahim Fehmiu was imprisoned by Yugoslav authorities in 1929.[3]

Acting

Bekim Fehmiu is considered as one of the greatest actors from the Balkans. He has appeared in 41 films between 1953 and 1998. Fehmiu is the first Albanian theater and film actor who acted in theaters and movies all over Yugoslavia, and he acted in a whole series of roles that changed the history of the Cinema of Yugoslavia and left a noted mark in the artistic developments abroad. His roles in "Special Education" (Specijalno vaspitanje), "I Even Met Happy Gypsies" (Skupljači perja), "The Odyssey" aka "The Adventures of Ulysses", "Adventurers", "Black Sunday", "Hot years", "Deserter" and "Roj" (Swarm), remain remembered as masterpieces of acting.

International career

Fehmiu has had a great international career acting alongside movie legends such as John Huston, Ava Gardner, Charles Aznavour, Irene Papas, Claudia Cardinale, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Shaw, Fernando Rey, Dirk Bogarde and Candice Bergen.

He has acted in Albanian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, English, French, Italian, Macedonian, Romani and Turkish language. Since 1987, when he demonstratively left the stage of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre during the staging of the play "Madame Colontein" by Agnette Pleyal, in which he played Lenin and Stalin, he publicly said goodbye to artistic activities in Yugoslavia. With time he made the decision to stop shooting movies abroad as well. In 2001, Samizdat B92 published a book of Bekim Fehmiu's memoirs Blistavo i strašno (Brilliant and Terrifying), which describes his life between his birth in 1936 in Sarajevo, until 1955, the year he joined the Pristina theater.

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Bekim Fehmiu and Candice Bergen in The Adventurers (1968)
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Bekim Fehmiu and Irene Papas in L'Odissea (1968)
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Bekim Fehmiu and Claudia Cardinale in Libera, My Love (1973)
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Bekim Fehmiu in The Deserter, (1971)

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Bekim Fehmiu, "Blistavo i Strasno", Samizdat Belgrade, 2001, ISBN 86-7464-027-3
  2. ^ Bekim Fehmiu, "Blistavo i Strasno", Samizdat Belgrade, 2001, ISBN 86-7464-027-3
  3. ^ Bekim Fehmiu, "Blistavo i Strasno", Samizdat Belgrade, 2001, ISBN 86-7464-027-3

Video excerpts


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