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Bekim Fehmiu (Serbo-Croat: Bekim
Fehmiju, Беким Фехмију; born June 1, 1936, Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is an
ex-Yugoslav theater and
film actor of Albanian origin.
Life
The Fehmiu family comes from Đakovica, however they have also lived in Sarajevo, Shkodër, and Prizren. He graduated at the Faculty of Drama Arts (FDU) in Belgrade in the class of Mata
Milošević, professor.
Acting
Bekim Fehmiu 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 noted 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. After film "The Adventurers", critics
said that:[1]
"His American debut in a starring role with a huge,
star-studded, international cast backing him up was poorly acted
and the epic film a complete misfire. The Adventurers (1970) ruined
any chances for Fehmiu to achieve similar stardom in
Hollywood."
He acted in Serbo-Croatian, Albanian,
Spanish,
English,
French, Italian and
Macedonian.Since 1987, when he
demonstratively left the stage of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, 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. With time he made the decision to stop
shooting movies abroad as well.
Autobiography
In 2001, Samizdat B92 published a book of Bekim
Fehmiu's memoirs, entitled 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.
Filmography
- Opštinsko dete (1953)
- Saša (1962)
- Pod isto nebo (1964)
- Neprijatelj (1965)
- Ko puca otvoriće mu se (1965)
- Klakson (1965)
- Devojka (1965)
- Roj (1966)
- Morgan: A Suitable Case
for Treatment (1966)
- Vreme ljubavi (1966)
- Tople godine (1966)
- Protest (1967)
- Skupljači perja (1967)
- Uzrok smrti ne pominjati (1968)
- Prljave ruke (1968, TV movie)
- L'Odissea
(1968, international TV miniseries)
- The Adventurers
(1970)
- Klopka za generala (1971)
- The Deserter (1971)
- Paljenje Rajhstaga (1972, TV movie)
- Libera, amore
mio... (1973)
- L'ultima neve di primavera (1973)
- Il testimone deve tacere (1974)
- Cagliostro (1974)
- Il gioco della verità (1974)
- Deps (1974)
- Košava (1974)
- Pavle Pavlović (1975)
- Permission to Kill (1975)
- Salon
Kitty (1976)
- Disposta a tutto (1977)
- Black Sunday (1977)
- Specijalno vaspitanje (1977)
- Stići pre svitanja (1978)
- Partizanska eskadrila (1979)
- I vecchi e i giovani (1979, mini-serial)
- Široko je lišće (1981)
- La Voce (1982)
- Sarâb (1982)
- Crveni i crni (1985)
- Poslednja priča (1987, TV movie)
- Un bambino di nome Gesù (1987, TV mini-serial)
- Disperatamente Giulia (1989, TV mini-serial)
- Il cuore e la spada (1998, TV movie)
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| Persondata |
| NAME |
Fehmiu, Bekim |
| ALTERNATIVE
NAMES |
|
| SHORT
DESCRIPTION |
Actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
1936-6-1 |
| PLACE OF
BIRTH |
Sarajevo |
| DATE OF DEATH |
|
| PLACE OF
DEATH |
|
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