Vojislav "Voja" Mirić ( sr-Cyrl, Воја Мирић; 7 April 1933 – 23 April 2019) was a
Serbian television and film actor most noted for his role as Ahmed Nurudin in the 1974
Yugoslav movie ''
Dervis i smrt'' (popularly known as ''Death and the Dervish'').
Life
Vojislav "Voja" Mirić was born on 7 April 1933 in
Trstenik, central
Serbia
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.
His film career spanned over 30 years. His first appearance on television was in the series ''Veliki poduhvat'' in 1960.
In 1964 he won the "Silver Arena" award as Best Actor in the
Pula Film Festival
Pula Film Festival ( hr, Pulski filmski festival) is an annual Croatian film festival, established in 1954. It is held in a Roman amphitheater known as the Pula Arena. Pula Film Festival is the oldest Croatian film festival and is usually held ...
of Yugoslavian Films for the
Fadil Hadžić
Fadil Hadžić (23 April 1922 – 3 January 2011) was a Croatian and Yugoslav film director, screenwriter, playwright and journalist, mainly known for his comedy films and plays. He was born in Bileća in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but mainly ...
movie ''Službeni položaj''.
His most notable performance came as the medieval
Bosnian
Dervish
Dervish, Darvesh, or Darwīsh (from fa, درویش, ''Darvīsh'') in Islam can refer broadly to members of a Sufi fraternity (''tariqah''), or more narrowly to a religious mendicant, who chose or accepted material poverty. The latter usage i ...
in the 1974 movie ''Derviš i smrt'' (
The Dervish and Death).
His last appearance was in ''Amnezija'' in 1994.
References
Further reading
* Pavle Levi, ''Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema'', Stanford University Press; 1 edition (February 1, 2007);
* Daniel J. Goulding, ''Liberated Cinema, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001'', Indiana University Press; (December 31, 2002);
External links
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1933 births
2019 deaths
Serbian male film actors
Serbian male television actors
People from Trstenik, Serbia