Voja Mirić
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Vojislav "Voja" Mirić (Serbian Cyrillic: Воја Мирић; born 7 April 1933) is a Serbian television and film actor most noted for his role as Ahmed Nurudin in the 1974 Yugoslav movie Dervis i smrt (literally "Dervish and Death" but more popularly known as Death and the Dervish).
Life
Vojislav "Voja" Mirić was born on 7 April 1933 in Trstenik, central Serbia. His film career spanned over 30 years. His first appearance was on television in 1960 : Veliki poduhvat. In 1964 he won the "Silver Arena" award as Best Actor in the Pula Film Festival of Yugoslavian Films for the Fadil Hadžić movie Službeni položaj. His last appearance was in Amnezija in 1994. However it was his performance as the medieval Bosnian Dervish in the 1974 movie Derviš i smrt (The Dervish and Death) that made him famous.
References
- Pavle Levi, Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema, Stanford University Press; 1 edition (February 1, 2007); ISBN 978-0-8047-5368-5
- Daniel J. Goulding, Liberated Cinema, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001, Indiana University Press; (December 31, 2002); ISBN 978-0-253-21582-6
- http://www.pulafilmfestival.hr/hr/index.php?p=detail&article=238
