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Kosovo Actor Faruk Begolli Dies

23 08 2007  Pristina _ Faruk Begolli, Kosovo’s theatre director, writer and actor died Thursday. He was 63.

Begolli who died after a long battle with cancer, was born in the town of Peja in 1944.

He graduated at the Academy of Drama in Belgrade and was a key movie actor in the former six-republic Yugoslavia. In the late 80’s, Begolli returned from Belgrade to Kosovo where he worked as a professor with the Pristina University, Faculty of Acting and run the Dodona theatre.

Begolli played in a number of movies and theatre plays, including "Bitka na Nerevti"(1969) by Veljko Bulajic, "Si te vdiset" (1972) by Miomir Stamenkovic, "Valter Brani Sarajevo" (1972) by Hajrudin Kravac, "Era e Lisi", by Besim Sahatciu, "Kur pranvera vonohet" (1980) by Ekrem Kryeziu, "Proka" (1982) by Isa Qosja and "Dashuria e Bjeshkeve te Nemuna" (1997) by Ekrem Kryeziu etc.

He also directed several student plays in 1989 and 1999, which were shown at a time when Kosovo Albanians were expelled form Kosovo bodies, during the reign of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic.

In a condolence message to Begolli’s family, Kosovo’s Minister of Culture, Astrit Haracia said that "a man is gone, but the actor Faruk Begolli did not die." "In Kosovo’s history of theatre and film, the name of Faruk Begolli, will be written with big letters", Haracia said.

Faik Ispahiu, a Kosovo's theatre director said that "Begolli was the Kosovo theatre during the most difficult times. What he did for Kosovo's culture will either be the worst condemnation or the highest praise to him in the other world, although I’m not sure he believed much in God."