Profile of the actor Luan Qerimi (1929-2018) | Commemorative!

Luan Qerimi
Dramatic actor of the “Teatri Popullor” (today T.K) as well as Albanian Cinematography. Characteristic voice, excessively arched eyebrow makes his portrait unmistakable.

Time has passed since his last role, however, anyone who has seen theater before the 90s, or still loves old Albanian films, cannot help but remember the actor Luan Qerimi. There was a time when the great actor of the Theater received endless applause from the audience. He has not lacked offers for different roles, even after retirement, but the actor wanted the public to preserve for him the former image, when he was at the peak of his career.

Luan Qerimi belongs to that constellation of actors who raised the Albanian theater. It was mostly cut for character roles and it is precisely these characters that stick out the most in the viewer’s mind. He played the roles of heroes, like that of Sulejman Vokshi, fathers, officers, quaestors, nobles,… sometimes dressed in a military uniform, sometimes as a mountaineer, sometimes as a gangster with a plaid jacket, sometimes with a long mustache… and always has attracted attention with his natural play, far from pathos, from which the Albanian theater has suffered.

Although it is a living school, he did not want to give meaning, to make comparisons between “his time” and todays, although the attraction shows that the new ways of organizing work in the theater and cinematography did not suit him very well. He belongs to a generation, which entered the role by foundation, and it is impossible to follow other “rules of the game”.

Born on October 15, 1929, in the city of Lushnje. Like many of his colleagues, he started to become active at a young age with amateur troops. It would be the time of his military service, when he would be noticed for his talent, during the performances that were organized with the Army Theater. “Teatri Popullor”, which at that time was in its first steps, was eager for new talents, for powerful voices, such as that of Qerimi, so without hesitation the managers at that time called him to become part of the Professional Troupe, in 1954. On the stage of this theater, he will perform about 70 premieres, performing protagonist and secondary roles until 1990.

His career as an actor started with a role in the drama “Haxhi Qamili” in 1954, to continue with another episodic role, that of Skender in the comedy “Prefect” by Besim Lëvonja. But this would only be the beginning, because the directors would entrust him with roles one after the other, and today that he is no more, he has a total of 80 eyes on the stage of the theater.

His roles in the drama “Dead River” are imprinted in the viewer’s mind; “Name me too”; “Era before the court” by Ekrem Kryeziu, in the drama “General of the dead army” directed by Piro Mani, in the comedy “Carnivals of Korça” by Spiro Çomorra, etc.

But he has also performed in pearls of world dramaturgy such as the play “Arturo Ui” by Bertold Brecht, where he plays the role of Ernesto Roma, his performances in the Shakespearean tragedies “Hamlet” and “Othello”, the performance in the play “Kremlin Hours” by N .Pogodin, etc.

In cinematography, his first role would be in 1964, in the film “Our Land”, to continue with other prominent roles, such as that of Kalosh Cami in the film “The Fall of Idols” in 1977, that of the old man of Përkolaj in the movie “Red Covenant”, that of Francesk Luku in the TV movie “Time does not Waits” in 1984, the role of Meri’s father in the movie “Death of a Horse” in 1992.

His most recent role is in the television film “Qëndresa 2” produced by “Kosova Film” in 1998. For his artistic merits, Luan Qerimi was awarded the high title “Merited Artist” in the same year. He was one of the actors more engaged in the television shows “Theatre on the Screen”, or even in the radio dramatizations “Heroism of our People in the Centuries”, “Artistic Speech in the Microphone” with about 200 roles. He would continue to be active for a while, to retire finally from stage and screen in 1990.

Qerimi passed away at the age of 89 on December 2, 2018.

Cinematography
1964 — Our land……. .Cubi
1965 – The first years….Vice Minister
1976 — Poppies on the walls……Sandro, Fascist Quaestor
1977 — The fall of the idols…….Kalosh Cami
1982 — Second November. ……..Sali Drenica
1982 — Red Covenant….Ndoc Marku
1983 — White Lilies (TV Movie)……Father of Luljeta
1983 — The Trap….Majku
1983 — Come…….Mojsiu
1984 — The Decision…..Antonio, Quaestor of Tirana
1984 — Time does not Waits (TV Movie)……Frančesk Luku
1985 – The Uninvited…… .
1985 – Postponed wedding…..Sokol’s father, Azem Shkrepi
1987 – The Phone of one Morning…..
1990 – The Pirates’ Cave………John Baba
1990 – The Death of Man……
1991 – – The Death of the Horse…….. Meri’s father
1992 – Behind the Facade……
1998 — “The Resistance” (TV movie)……….

Theater

1954 – “Haxhi Qamili”
1954 – “The Prefect”
21/03/1954 — “Othello” by Shakespeare
16/04/1954 — “Our Land” by Kola Jakov
22/05/1955 — “The Fight” by Xhemal Broja
03/11/1957 — “Hours of the Kremlin” by N. Pogodin
24/06/1960 — “Hamlet” by Shakespeare
27/11/1960 — “The Dragon of Dragobia” by Xhemal Broja
23/01/1964 — “Carnivals of Korça” by Spiro Çomorra
20/02/1965 — “Red Sky” by Tafik Çaushi
04/03/1966 — “The Great Impassable wall” Xhan-Huan
29/ 06/1966 — “Three rifle shots” by Ibrahim Uruçi
22/11/1966 — “Perkolginajt” by Kola Jakova
07/03/1967 — “Maiden of Mountains” by Loni Papa
21/01/1968 — “Heroes of Linasi” by Sulejman Pitarka (People’s Artist) 13/02/1969 — “Friends” by Bashkim Kozeli
06/04/1969 — “The Prefect” by Besim Levonja (Honored Artist)…. Skenderi 04/03/1971 — “Arturo Ui” by Bertold Brecht……..Ernesto Roma
30/10/1971 — “Year 61” by Fadil Paçrami
10/05/1972 — “The General of the Army dead” by Piro Mani (People’s Artist) 24/01/1973 — “Red signal” by Bashkim Kozel
09/11/1974 — “Smoke that clears” by Zia Cikulit
14/12/1980 — “Era before the trial” by Ekrem Kryeziu
16/10/1981 — “Communists” by Ruzhdi Pulaha…….. Giovanni, Quaestor of Tirana

It was previously published on the Facebook page with the same name as in October 2013 and was revised in the following years.

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