Profile of the actor Viktor Zhusti!

Viktor Zhusti,
well-known actor of the Albanian Theater and Cinematography. He holds the title “Merited Artist” .

Born in Athens, Greece on December 8, 1942. Due to the war, his family split up and he came with his father to Albania in 1943. He lived in Gjirokastra and in 1963 he finished his studies as an actor in Lyceum and then after at the Academy of Arts. Since a student stands out for the strength of interpretation, temperament, dexterity who were noticed in several roles in the performances of the “Teatri Popullor”.  There he plays Peter Petrus in the drama “Such love” by P. Kolurti; Genci in the drama “House on the Boulevard” by Fadil Paçrami.

After graduation, Viktor Zhusti was appointed director of the cultural center in Gjirokastra where he stayed until 1971. After this year he was appointed lecturer of “Artistic Speech” at the Academy of Arts in Tirana, where he worked until v. 1997, the year that dates back to his departure for Greece.

Viktor Zhusti, with a Greek mother and an Albanian father, feels connected to Albania, where “since I was two years old I first learned the Albanian language”, he said.

His roles in film and theater are diverse. He played the tough partisan, but also the compassionate father, the young man in the face of dilemmas, but also the lover, who tries to overcome prejudices. For the time Viktor Zhusti was one of the most sought after actors before the ’90s – when the Albanian Cinematography was in full bloom.

Stand out in the role of Alber in the comedy “Rain in the beach” a masterpiece that has resisted time. But previously in the year 1981 on the stage of the “Teatri Popullor” gave life Besim role in the drama “The Communists” by Ruzhdi Pulaha, between which he embodies with heroic and elegiac tones the figure of Qemal Stafa “Hero of the Albanian People”.

One of the impressive figures of the actor V. Zhusti on the theater stage was that of Sami in “The Teacher of Literature” (1982) by R. Pulaha.

In the film he has played about 10 main roles. Zhusti started his career in 1966 in “the Comissar of Light” in the role of Mark Dedina, continuing with “Mountains Clad in Green” that of the partisan Jaho. Then in movies like “The Second November”, “Taulant is looking for a sister” (in the role of the father, Pirro). Another role of the father, in “When the Movie was Shot”, to continue with the role of Llano Bleta in “And one day comes”, one of his culminations of the one with whom he presented a figure, the process of alienation of the official in power, his dilemmas and objections.

Returns after almost 20 years on the stage of the “National Theater” with the role of a “sick” patient in the comedy “All with Habits” (2009). Viktor Zhusti with the weight of life’s worries on his shoulders, is no longer the “naughty boy” that the late director Prokop Mima insisted on interpreting what became his first childhood role Viktor Zhusti wants to returns to the spectators but this time his projects are aimed only at the theatrical genre. In the Albanian scene, he is remembered as a performer with a fast character, high rhythm and temperament, of a rational nature.

Cinematography
1966 — Comissar of Light….Mark Dedina
1971 — Mountains clad with green ……Jaho Cani
1978 — My Wedding Toast…..the wounded courier
1980 — Old Cartridge…Pandi Mylla
1981 — When a Movies is shot…..Kujtim, father of Gencit
1982 — Second November…..Pandi Cala
1984 — Taulanti is looking for a sister …Piro
1986 — And a Day comes….Llano Bleta
1988 — Reconstruction (Film TV)……engineer Berti Rora
1990 — The Mining Engineer….Party`s Secretary
2010 — The sound of silence (Film TV)…….

Theater Performance
12/26 /1963 — “The House on the Boulevard” by Fadil Paçrami…as Genci
01/06/1964 — “Such a love” by Pavel Kolurti …as Peter Petrusi
27/01/1974 — “The man who saw death with his eyes” by Viktor Efthimiou. …as Vagabond
16/10/1981 — “The Communists” by Ruzhdi Pulaha ….as Besim Xhafa
22/06/1984 — “Storm in Dovlet” by Luan Qafzezi …..as The servant
— /09/1984 — “Rain on the beach” by Teodor Laço…..as Alber
— /– /1986 — “Teacher of Literature” by Ruzhdi Pulaha………..
09/05/2009 — “All with habits” by Laurent Baffi….as doctor Sterni, psychoanalyst
12/17/2009 — “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” by Eduart Olbit…. as Georg

Presenter in 1970 of the 10th Song Festival in RTSh 

Awards and Titles
“Deserved Artist” April 26 1981
Medallion of the 4th Albanian Film Festival for the role of Pandi Mylla in the film “Old cartridge” held in Tirana from April 20 to 26, 1981.

It was previously published on the Facebook page with the same name as in December 2013.

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Reference: Web-online / Various Albanian portals and newspapers as well as “Encyclopedia, Theater and Albanian Cinematography” – Toena 2009 / Papagjoni. J / pages 558-559.

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