Portrait of an artist, Niko Kanxheri!

Niko Kanxheri
Actor, director and lecturer at the Academy of Arts!

Born on February 17, 1947. Completed his general secondary school in Korce, while his higher studies at the High School for Actor near the National Theater in Tirana, in 1969.

Acting has been his passion since his high school years. Maybe it was coincidence, and sometimes coincidences turn into necessity. At that time, the high schools of Korça competed with each other through performances.

The director Pirro Mani came and worked with amateurs and Niko was one of the high school principals who liked him and fell in love with this job. After high school, he chooses to continue his acting studies. This is how his path with performing arts begins. Kanxheri competes in Tirana and wins. In 1965, he moved to Tirana to finish school. It was a difficult period for Niko Kanxheri living in Tirana, with no citizenship but without any proper home, so much so that he was ready to return to Korce several times.

From 1970 to 1987 Niko worked in radio and television. There he works with great commitment and accuracy. 13 years are marked on Television and 5 on radio. Kanxheri completed a one-year film directing course at Kinostudio and then continued working in the TV feature film editorial office.

Also Kanxheri made a film there, which unfortunately does not exist. Convinced that he is not a good director, he gives up and does not approach it. Niko Kanxheri worked as a director in the first radio drama programs “Teatri ne mikrofon”, where he produced a large number of Albanian and foreign dramas within 5 years.

In 1987, he left the Television to come as a lecturer at the Academy for the subject “Master of Actors” and then head of the acting department at the Academy of Arts of the Faculty of Performing Arts in Tirana. The first difficulty in his creativity was the first proposal that was made to him to play in the movie “Malet me blerim mbuluar”.

It was for an episodic role, of an Italian who had remained in Albania after the capitulation of Italy. It was Qerim Mata, the assistant of the film, who communicated with a letter the choice of the director Dhimitër Anagnosti to play a role in this film. That’s how he made the debut in Film in 1971 and that’s where his artistic career took the right course.

Interprets in more than 20 feature films and television, among which we can mention: “Happy couple” (1975) the groom, “Courriers” (1976) Sandri, “Bloody Earth” (1976) Miti, “Death of a Horse” (1992) Estrefi chief security officer. For his performance in the film “Colors of Age” in the role of editor-in-chief (1990), he will be awarded the second prize at the 9th Albanian Film Festival. Meanwhile, as a director, he made only two films: “The Hit / Goditja” (1980) and the TV variety show “Hello, the technician / Alo tekniku”! (1982)

Filmography
Mountains clad in green – (1971) …. Domenico
Stars of the Long Night – (1972) . … Marko Bojalliu
Path of war – (1974) …. The delegate
At the beginning of summer – (1975) …. Soldier Moreti
The happy couple – (1975) …. Groom
Bloody land – (1976) …. Miti
Courriers TV – (1976) …. Sandri
The Militant – (1984) …. Refati
The colors of age – (1990)
Loneliness – (1990) …. Skenderi
The death of the man  – (1991)
Moonless – (2001)….Doctor Socrates

Theater Plays:
Shadows of the night – (1974) …. Haliti
A classmate of mine – (1975) …. Niku
Waiting for Godone – (1993) …. Luki
The Rhino – (1998) . … Zhan
“Shtrengata” – (1998) …. Prospero
The Last Show – (1999) …. The Man in the Leaf
Newspaper – (2000) …. Babai
Euridita – (2017)……The Father

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Albanian Cinematography in activity since 2013
Reference: Encyclopedia of Albanian Cinematography – Toena 2002 / AT Hoxha / p. 180-181/ Selected news from online Albanian newspapers 2013, 2014.

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