Faruk Begolli Explained

Faruk Begolli
Birth Name:Faruk Mahmutbegolli or Mahmudbegović
Birth Date:1944 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Peja, Albanian-occupied Yugoslavia
Death Place:Pristina, United Nations Administered Kosovo
Nationality:Yugoslavian
Known For:Acting

Faruk Begolli (; 14 February 1944 – 23 August 2007), was a prominent Yugoslavian and Kosovan actor.[1]

Early life

Begolli attended high school in Pristina and graduated from the Academy of Film in Belgrade (1966).

Career

Begolli played in more than 60 films, starting with Veljko Bulajić's Pogled u zenicu Sunca (1966). He cooperated with director Puriša Đorđević in his films Podne (Noon), Jutro (The Morning), and San (The Dream), and his notable roles include Bitka na Neretvi, Čuvar plaže u zimskom periodu and Derviš i Smrt (The Dervish and Death).

His last major lead role was in Ekrem Kryeziu's Dashuria e Bjeshkëve të Nemuna (The Love of the Accursed Mountains, 1997), and his work was Etjet e Kosovës (Kosovo's Thirsts, 2006), for which he co-wrote the script. One of h last film appearances was in the short 10 Minuta (2004), directed by Burim Haliti.

Personal life

In the late 1980s, Begolli returned from Belgrade to Kosovo, where he worked as a professor at the Faculty of Drama of the University of Pristina.

Begolli died in 2007 after a long battle with cancer.

Selected filmography

References

Notes and References

  1. Historical Dictionary of Kosovo, Robert Elsie, Second Edition, Scarecrow Press Inc. 2011,

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