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By the way, now that so many are interested or faking expertise in Kosovo, it is a good time to remember that one of the greatest Yugoslav actors, and the first Eastern European actor to play in Cold-War Hollywood, was Bekim Fehmiu, an Albanian from Kosovo born in Sarajevo.
His major role was in a film about Roma life in Vojvodina, known in English as _I Even Met Happy Gypsies_ (or _The Feather Gatherers_ in Serbo-Croatian). A year later, he played the leading role of Odysseus in the mini-series L'Odissea, which made him a star in Europe.
Unfortunately, he failed to reproduce his success in Hollywood. His first film there, _The Adventurers_, was loosely based on the life of the Dominican diplomat-cum-playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, who might have also been a political assassin for the dictator Rafael Trujillo.
Despite the arresting story and its "airborne world premiere" as the in-flight movie of Boeing's first Superjet making is way from NYC to LA, it was poorly received and critics came to see it as more of an unintentional comedy than a serious film.
He continued to be featured in minor Hollywood films, including one in 1977 in which he was a Palestinian terrorist. His success was more significant in European films and in local theater. His final role was supposed to be in a film called Genghis Khan, which was never produced.
The end of his career came shortly after he walked off the stage in 1987, in protest of the government's treatment of Albanians in Kosovo. He died in Belgrade in 2010, perhaps by his own hand. He played in 39 films and and 8 television films/series.
