Faruk Begolli

Who was Faruk Begolli?

Faruk Begolli was the most famous Kosovo Albanian actor and director of Yugoslavia.

He attended high school in Pristina and completed the academy of film in Belgrade. Begolli played in more than 60 films, starting with Veljko Bulajić's Pogled u zenicu Sunca. He cooperated with director Puriša Đorđević in his films Podne, Jutro, and San, and his notable roles include Bitka na Neretvi, Čuvar plaže u zimskom periodu and Derviš i Smrt.

In the late 1980s, Begolli returned from Belgrade to Kosovo, where he worked at the University of Pristina as a professor at the Faculty of Drama. His last lead role was in Ekrem Kryeziu's Dashuria e Bjeshkëve të Nemuna, and his last piece was Etjet e Kosovës, where he was also a co-scenarist. He died in 2007, after a long battle with cancer.

Trivia: His brother was Adil Begolli, a well-known Kosovo producer.