Adivie Sharofi – Alibali | "Mom" of the Albanian film!

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Adivie Sharofi – Alibali Rubric: "Actor and character" Dear Mrs. Adivie Sharofi, is not a genuine actress, and she is not a graduate of any acting school, but nevertheless the role of Mamice in the film of our national hero "Skenderbeu" has made him famous. She is the only one of the actresses who keeps her life alive as a witness in the making of the film "Skenderbeu", a successful film for the time and which even resists her today. Mrs. Alibali was born in Tirana in 1934, the daughter of the well-known Sharofi family from Dibra e Madhe. Adivija is one of the first pioneers of the Albanian choreographic art, since 1947. She was a dancer and at the same time part of the opera (before the Philharmonic was created). He quickly fell in love with the dance and song that he learned at a young age, also influenced by the family environment where he grew up and was educated. Pushed by her cousins, she won a competition to participate as a dancer, ballerina in the small ballet group and once gave the first performance in July 1948. Then with the creation of the Albanian Philharmonic in `50, even Mrs. Adivie becomes part of it. The activity of this philharmonic was very wide, touring not only within the country but also in the countries of Eastern Europe, Budapest, Warsaw, Moscow, etc. Adivia is a prominent dancer even after the separation of the Philharmonic from the Opera until v. 1975 remains part of two branches, folk dance and opera as a ballerina. It is the time when the idea of making a film about the great hero of the Albanians, Gjergj Kastrioti, is thrown in a collaboration with the troupe of Soviet actresses. In 1950, a team of Soviet female directors came to Albania and started the selection of actresses to perform in this big project for the time. After attending a performance of the dance ensemble, the team chooses Adivien to play the role of Momica in the movie Skënderbeu, who was the youngest of all the actresses in this movie. She is sent to Moscow together with a group of other Albanian actresses such as N. Frasheri, M. Popi, M. Logoreci, N. Shkjezi, B. Imami, etc. for the shooting of the film, which was partly shot in the Caucasus and Crimea and the other part in Tirana, Kruje, Durres. The film was also successful in the international arena, managed to win two awards at the Cannes International Film Festival, and was shown every day in Moscow cinemas for about two weeks. Although inexperienced and with some difficult scenes, the role of Mamice was performed with great success. Afterwards, the name of Adivie Sharof was deliberately forgotten by the time system. Albania was gradually moving into a total closure and where everyone became an enemy of everyone, hostile groups in the economy, in art….. Her life after 1975 is an ordeal of suffering, exiled in Labov, but people everywhere who know her they honored her by calling her Mother. Although she had a career of about 30 years as a dancer, she remained known to the Arteda audience as Mamica, the sister of our great Gjergji, God "Skenderbe". __________________________________ Albanian cinematography published for the first time in June 2020 © Copying, reproduction and publication of this information is prohibited


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