Bekim Fehmiu

Bekim Fehmiu

Bekim Fehmiu (Albanian: [bɛˈkim fɛhˈmiu]; Cyrillic: Беким Фехмију; 1 June 1936 – 15 June 2010) was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War. In 1960, Fehmiu became a member of the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, which he left in 1967, citing bad treatment, to become a free artist. Fehmiu's big break was the 1967 film I Even Met Happy Gypsies, a subtle portrayal of Roma life which won two awards in Cannes and was nominated for an Oscar. Known for his macho appearance and mild manner, Fehmiu was then wooed by Western filmmakers and signed a contract with the Academy Award-winning producer Dino De Laurentiis. It was De Laurentiis who, in 1968, cast him as Odysseus in the acclaimed mini-series of The Odyssey. It was the first blockbuster of Italian television and made Fehmiu an icon in parts of Europe. Fehmiu seemed poised for stardom in Hollywood as well, but his first American film, The Adventurers, was a critical and financial disaster which "ruined any chances for Fehmiu to achieve similar stardom in Hollywood". In 1971, Fehmiu starred in the western action drama The Deserter, directed by Burt Kennedy. In 1973 he played the role of the busy father in Raimondo Del Balzo's heartbreaking film The Last Snows of Spring, and then in 1975 played the role of ex-politician Alexander Diakim in the movie Permission to Kill, with Ava Gardner and Dirk Bogarde. In 1976, Fehmiu starred as fictional murdered Luftwaffe pilot, Hans Reiter in Tinto Brass's film, Salon Kitty alongside Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin and Teresa Ann Savoy. He portrayed a Palestinian terrorist in John Frankenheimer's 1977 political thriller, Black Sunday. Despite his Hollywood films achieving little success, he did well in European art house cinema as well as in the theatre, the latter being his preferred medium. He portrayed the father of Mother Teresa, Nikola Boyaxhiu, in the 1982 film La Voce (The Voice). He acted as Joseph in the Italian production A Child Called Jesus (1987). He was to have acted in the movie Genghis Khan (1992), but it was ultimately never made. In 1987, in protest at the Yugoslavian government's treatment of Kosovar Albanians, he walked off the stage at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade during the play Madame Kollontai by Agneta Pleijel. He left the stage, and soon after, film. Fehmiu was found dead on 15 June 2010 in his apartment in Belgrade. Initial reports stated he committed suicide. Interior Minister Ivica Dačić said Fehmiu was found shot in his apartment and the gun was registered in Fehmiu's name. He was 74 years old. His body was cremated and the ashes were scattered in Prizren Bistrica in Prizren, his childhood home. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bekim Fehmiu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Bekim Fehmiu
  • Popularity: 2.041
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1936-06-02
  • Place of Birth: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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  • Also Known As: Беким Фехмиу, Беким Фехмию, Bekim Fehmiju
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Bekim Fehmiu Movies

  • 1968
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    Odissea

    Odissea

    7.7 1968 HD

    Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.

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  • 1977
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    Black Sunday

    Black Sunday

    6.71 1977 HD

    An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September PLO plot to commit a terrorist attack at the...

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  • 1967
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    I Even Met Happy Gypsies

    I Even Met Happy Gypsies

    6.9 1967 HD

    The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who...

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  • 1970
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    The Adventurers

    The Adventurers

    4.5 1970 HD

    The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the...

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  • 1975
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    Permission to Kill

    Permission to Kill

    5.5 1975 HD

    Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead...

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  • 1970
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    The Deserter

    The Deserter

    6 1970 HD

    A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter...

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  • 1979
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    The Battle of the Eagles

    The Battle of the Eagles

    6.3 1979 HD

    The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.

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  • 2023
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    Bekim Fehmiu

    Bekim Fehmiu

    1 2023 HD

    Bekim Fehmiu was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War, and he was one of the internationally best-known actors.

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  • 1972
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    Bekim Fehmiu Visits Albania

    Bekim Fehmiu Visits Albania

    1 1972 HD

    Albania and neighboring Yugoslavia officially broke ties in 1948. But in 1971, the Hoxha regime was honored to welcome the ethnic Albanian actor...

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  • 1965
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    Klaxon

    Klaxon

    6 1965 HD

    A group of people go on a picnic in the mountains. Longing for some love and understanding, they try to get close to one another, but the barriers...

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  • 1966
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    The Feverish Years

    The Feverish Years

    6.3 1966 HD

    A story about two people who didn't find their way in big city. He came from the countryside and works in steel factory, she's working in factory...

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  • 1977
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    Special Education

    Special Education

    7 1977 HD

    Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a...

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  • 1965
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    The Girl

    The Girl

    6.2 1965 HD

    A lyrical fourfold perspective on WWII through the eyes of a young partisan couple, a town photographer and a German officer.

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  • 1974
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    Il gioco della verità

    Il gioco della verità

    1 1974 HD

    In the slums of Naples, a prostitute, when questioned by police about the death of one of her clients who fell from the gutter, claims it was an...

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  • 1973
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    The Last Snows of Spring

    The Last Snows of Spring

    7 1973 HD

    A 10-year-old boy starts to die of neglect when his widowed father spends too much time forsaking his parental duties in favour of playboy activities...

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  • 1974
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    Silence the Witness

    Silence the Witness

    5 1974 HD

    De Luca is killed by Marchetti's chauffeur. Marchetti ordered the murder because he was to be accused by De Luca. The two have a car accident while...

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  • 1987
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    A Child Called Jesus

    A Child Called Jesus

    6.6 1987 HD

    The film attempts to fill in the "missing years" of Jesus, from ages 3 through 12. When King Herod fearing that the Messiah has indeed been born,...

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  • 1962
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    Sasha

    Sasha

    6.5 1962 HD

    A mysterious person is killing pro-Nazi officials in a small Serbian town. A group of children accidentally reveal his identity.

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  • 1966
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    The Swarm

    The Swarm

    6.3 1966 HD

    During turbulent times of the First Serbian uprising in 1804, on a freshly liberated land, a woman who betrayed her husband to the Turks has been...

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  • 1982
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    The Balad of Mamelouk

    The Balad of Mamelouk

    4 1982 HD

    Mamluk is an unassuming, handsome young peasant who happens to have come along just in time to save the king from a fatal trap, and as a reward, the...

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  • 1968
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    Do Not Mention the Cause of Death

    Do Not Mention the Cause of Death

    5.2 1968 HD

    In an atmosphere of WWII, a village dyer wants to help his folks in their sorrow and distress by supplying them with the black paint, but there is...

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  • 1964
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    Under the Same Sky

    Under the Same Sky

    6.6 1964 HD

    Three partisans come to a fascist held town at the end of the war to create diversions. Their protector is tortured to reveal their whereabouts, but...

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  • 1981
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    Broad Are the Leaves

    Broad Are the Leaves

    6.3 1981 HD

    The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film...

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  • 1974
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    Deps

    Deps

    6.3 1974 HD

    A film about a small-time gangster, a loser who seems is finally on the road of going straight.

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  • 1965
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    The Enemy

    The Enemy

    6 1965 HD

    An ex-soldier named Slobodan Antic, referred to by a friend as one of the last idealists, finds himself losing control over his own life when a man...

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  • 1987
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    The Last Story

    The Last Story

    1 1987 HD

    The story of a young writer who tries to save his personal identity while facing the corrupted environment and temptations of a love affair.

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  • 1975
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    Libera, My Love

    Libera, My Love

    5.2 1975 HD

    A strong-willed woman risks everything to support the cause of anti-fascism in World War II Italy.

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  • 1977
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    Ready for Anything

    Ready for Anything

    4.2 1977 HD

    Anna, a young stenography student who after a chance meeting in a park, begins a steamy relationship with Marco (Bekim Fehmiu) a much older married...

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  • 1971
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    A Trap for the General

    A Trap for the General

    5.7 1971 HD

    Immediately after the war, OZNA insert an outstanding intelligence agent to catch the General Draza Mihajlovic.

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  • 1974
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    The Wind

    The Wind

    5 1974 HD

    The story of two workers who returned from abroad. One of them wants to find a good job, Adam, and the other one wants to earn money by smuggling,...

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  • 1966
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    The Time of Love

    The Time of Love

    5.7 1966 HD

    "The Time of Love" is omnibus of two parts. Part I: Experiences and growing up of a 16 years old girl without much of parents' attention. Part II: A...

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  • 1967
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    Protest

    Protest

    5 1967 HD

    A man cannot bear the superficiality of human relationships, and when his best friend lets him down, he commits suicide by jumping off a skyscraper.

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  • 1978
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    Arrive Before Daybreak

    Arrive Before Daybreak

    6 1978 HD

    The story of political prisoners, detained in a jail before the start of the WWII, and their torture and attempts to escape, and join a partisan unit.

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  • 1998
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    Heart and Sword

    Heart and Sword

    8 1998 HD

    After the death of his father, prince Tristan is living in Cornwall at the court of his uncle, King Marke, who treats him like a son. When the Irish...

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  • 1975
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    Pavle Pavlovic

    Pavle Pavlovic

    5 1975 HD

    Pavle Pavlovic, a steel worker, openly talks about the issues in the steel factory in a television show. He receives an apartment from the board,...

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  • 1982
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    The Voice

    The Voice

    1 1982 HD

    The film tells episodes in the life of seventeen-old Gongia in 1920s Albany that lead her to the decision of becoming a nun under the name of sister...

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  • 1985
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    The Red and the Black

    The Red and the Black

    5 1985 HD

    This film is the true story of the creation of Labin Republic in 1921. When Italy annexed Istria, Labin area that is very rich in coal became...

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  • 1976
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    Salon Kitty

    Salon Kitty

    5.611 1976 HD

    Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army...

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  • 1965
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    Shoot and It Shall Open

    Shoot and It Shall Open

    5.4 1965 HD

    Three young delinquents, two boys and a girl - go through their personal drama alongside wrongdoings they do. The local chief inspector gives his...

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  • 1975
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    Cagliostro

    Cagliostro

    1 1975 HD

    After attending esoterical studies with a wise man, Cagliostro, a mysterious Italian count, received the gift of supernatural powers. He started to...

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  • 1983
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    Pavilón šeliem

    Pavilón šeliem

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1972
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    The Reichstag Fire

    The Reichstag Fire

    1 1972 HD

    The court trial of the 1933 arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin by a Dutch communist Marinus van der...

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  • 1989
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    Julia Forever

    Julia Forever

    1 1989 HD

    Italy, 1940: Carmen de Blasco is married to a fascist, but falls in love with a friend of her father Ubaldo, the young partisan Armando Zani. At the...

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  • 1968
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    The Odyssey

    The Odyssey

    8.9 1968 HD

    Italian miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey.

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