List 1 in alphabetical order, from A – J! Actresses of secondary roles that the reader may not have known before, and that today may be interested in getting to know them through photos. Thus, in the Albanian films of Kinostudio "New Albania", in addition to the now well-known actresses, giants or stars of the Albanian cinema, these films have offered our spectators another group of actresses of secondary roles who do not have the luck to perform in many films or in the role of protagonists despite their acting skills. Precisely for this grouping plus those that came from the amateur movement, for the interest of the reader, this page has designated a wide photo album, along with a little information. Of course, the list of names is very long, almost endless, and if it is impossible to mention them all, this album will be enriched from time to time with new photos and related information. * * * ADMIR CROW 
Born in Vlora on January 15, 1975, he is known for his role in the movie "Tale from the Past". In 1988, in a competition held in Tirana, where the film "Tale from the Past" received the "Naim Frashëri" award, the director directed him to withdraw the film award, this was an honor for him, to make him present in the Albanian art scene. At the VIII Film Festival, he received the medallion as "The best small actor of Albanian films". Despite achieving high artistic values, he left the Academy of Arts in 1993. He emigrated to Italy for a while and later returned to Vlora.
ADIVIE SHAROFI – ALIBALI "Mom" of the Albanian film 
Honorable Mrs. Adivie Sharofi, is not a genuine actress, and is not a graduate of any acting school, but nevertheless the role of Mamice in the film of our national hero "Skenderbeu" has made her well-known. 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 simultaneously part of the opera (before the Philharmonia was even 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 film Skënderbeu, who was the youngest of all the actresses in this film. 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, Adivie Sharof's name 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".
ARJANA MUSABELLIU 
The actress was seen playing a role in the movie "Bitter Spring" – 1985!
BILBIL KASMI 
Actor of secondary roles who performed in several Kinostudio films: 1979 – "Ceta e vogel……the partisan commissar 1980 – "Intendenti"……..the courier 1981 – "Even we fought"…….the partisan commander 1981 – "When a film was being shot" …….. 1983 – "The end of a blood feud"…. Feridi 1983 – "White lilies" …….agronomy
HATIBI BINOCULARS 
Performed secondary or episodic roles as in: Fije qe priten – 1976; Old Gezhoja – 1980; Trap 1983 etc.
BLEDAR XHANI "The hedgehog of the movie" Butterfly in my cabin. 
For many, his name may sound distant, but if you were to mention the character of Irić in the movie "Butterfly in My Cabin", you would surely immediately remember the little boy with the hair standing up like a thorn, who every day made his way with Saurel i Toma. He grew up in Tirana near the "Dinamo" stadium and was offered in this film by the well-known actor and director Artur Gorishti, although against his will. Years later, B. Xhani took part as an extra in the film "Rapists", which was filmed at "Disco Albania". Today he is a successful businessman where he has been living for many years in South Africa.
BRUNILDA HALLUNI 
She was born in Tirana on February 21, 1965. She graduated from "Petro Nini Luarasi" high school in Tirana, choosing the path of medicine as a nurse. She didn't finish any acting school, but she still caught the eye of the directors who chose her not only for her original beauty, but also for the confidence she showed, her sensuality and special style, the intelligence she demonstrated without showing it selfishly or showing off in the roles you played in the Albanian film. She could very well have become an actress with a successful future, even though her success belongs to another profession from the art of cinematography. Her name can be found in the films: "City Lights" (1983) Summer / "Autumn Rains" (1984) / "Dream of a Chair" (1984) / "Whiteness" (1986) / "Waxed Shirts" ( 1987). In the years of transition, after the 90s, like every other Albanian for a better life, she first emigrated to Greece and then to Canada, where she currently lives in Quebec happily with her beloved family.
DARLING MAMAQI 
The actor was born in Tirana on November 10, 1963. He studied at the High Institute of Arts in Tirana for acting. He acted in 3-4 Albanian films starting with Ed, the son of his friend Kristofor in "Students of my class" in 1984. A year later he played in the film "Ne prag te jetes", and in 1990 a role of a German lieutenant in "Chronicle of a night". He was also the director of the film "One day from one life" (1993). He is the son of the writer Adelina Mamaqi.
DHIMITRA MELE 
Performed in two Kinostudio feature films: "Who died on the feet" – 1984 "The Unforgettable" – 1984
QASMI GIFT 
The actress started in 1983 in the movie "Warm Hand" and even in a minor role. Four years later in 1987, he played in the movie "Perseri pranvere" and then in "Ballad of Kurbin".
DHIONIS KOCI (1927 – 2020) 
Who is Dhionis Koci or Nizua as others affectionately called him? More precisely, to help the Albanian spectator, he is the "Italian soldier" of the checkpoint of a barracks in the film "Debatik" – 1961, who exchanges a few words in a perfect Italian with "Coli", the small actor Shpetim Zan (also now not live with). "Buongiorno ragazzi` ! Che hai portato qui da vendere ? O tartaruga , Dio buono. Ma i soldati sono andati tutti in chiesa…" ! This is therefore the only role where the artist Dionis Koci can be clearly identified. Dionis Koci was born in Lyon from an Albanian family who emigrated to France. It was one of the special and rare intellectuals of people. Actor, comedian in the state variety show, poet, singer, author of "Mozaiku Qeparotas" and the legendary song "My Village Qeparoi" (1949) Died in September 2020 in Virginia in the USA
EDMOND BAYLER 
The actor performed three roles in the Albanian films "On the border of two legends" – 1981; "A Little Delay" – 1982; "Footprints in the Snow" – 1984!
EDMOND BALL 
Actor / Assistant director / Director and producer He was born in Tirana on July 1, 1960. He studied at the High Institute of Arts for an actor. He performed a successful role in the movie "Like Everyone" (1981) as Will. In 1985, he transferred to Kinostudio "Alhqiperia e Re", working as an assistant director in the films "Te mos heshtesh" (1985); "Whiteness" (1986); "Meet twice" (1986); "Morning Phone" (1987); "People in the Stream" (1989); "Ballad of Kurbin" (1990). In 1989 he made his first film as a director "Nositi", in 1991 "Dictatorship". The year 1999 will come when Edmond Topi will make his first film as a director and producer entitled "Kosova, kuje e kushtrim"! He is the director of the "Dea" International Film Festival. In 2017, he made another film with the title "Future Stars" with the participation, among others, of the golden generation actresses of the People's Theater and Kinostudio, such as Tinka Kurti, Margarita Xhepa, Reshat Arbana, Lufta Paja, Karafil Shena, etc.
EINAR NELKU 
The actor performed in the films: And one day comes – 1986; Come – 1987; A Long Year – 1987; The Weight of Time – 1988.
EKATERINA KOTE 
Actress of the "Aleksander Moisiu" theater, Durres. In addition to various interpretations on the stage of this theater, she simultaneously played in several artistic or television films: "Emblema e dikurshme" (Benjamin's wife); "Stars above the tree" – 1979; "Time does not wait" – 1984.
ERMIRA ZYRAKJA 
Ermira Leford (Zyrakja) is a great Albanian artist, but in another field of art. He was born on December 15, 1964. At a young age, 6 years old, he began studying piano and graduated professionally at the age of 23 at the Academy of Arts in Tirana. Ermira has studied piano for more than 16 years and currently lives for more than 20 years in Geneva, where she alternates her professional activity with concerts, teaching and participation in many cultural activities of the Albanian community in Switzerland, while she has given concerts in USA, England, France, Ireland, Greece, Cyprus etc. In 1987, she performed as an actress in the only film of Kinostudio "Alhqiperia e Re" entitled "Eja" in the role of a student, in a touching event, raised in the children's home, where one day she had gone to was doing her internship in a small town, she came in contact with her real mother. So Ermira Zyrakja is more of a well-known pianist than a movie actress. On the piano (with 2 pianists together) he produced and recorded the first CD with piano music titled "OUR MUSIC". Pianist Ermira Zyrakja with tenor Kastriot Tusha during a presentation in Arau, Switzerland at the age of 14, in 1978 won the first prize in the National Competition of young talents. In parallel with his studies, he has given solo concerts and with various violinists, wind instruments and operatic singers. After leaving Albania, at the time of transition, she started as a piano teacher in Janine at the Greek-Dutch conservatory "THCAKA-LOF". There he won the Dutch piano competition and won a post-graduate scholarship to perfect himself at the conservatory of ROTTERDAM. Since 1992, he lives in Geneva.
EVA PELUMBI (1953 – 2019) 
For the Albanian public, she is known for her episodic roles in Albanian films such as "Girl with red ribbons", "Dream of a chair" or even "Kapedani". The actress has worked for 17 years at the Puppet Theater where she played the role of "Chufos" from the work of Gaqo Bushaka as well as Pinocchio. Acting as a talent is the discovery of Bujar Kapexhiu. At the age of 17, he became part of Tirana's variety show and had the ability to imitate any singer of the time. She also worked as a voice actress in cartoons, but her name was almost never mentioned. Likewise, he worked in the puppet theater for 17 years doing the voice of many characters or interpreting characters that have remained in the memory of children over the years, among which the interpretation of Pinocchio was the pinnacle of Evan's achievement. After the 90s, actress Eva Pëllumbi left Albania for Germany. He passed away at the age of 66 on December 25, 2019.
FATBARDHA CANI 
Amateur actress, but who managed to land her only role in the cinematography, a protagonist even, in the short film "Montatorja" – 1970, and nowhere else after that, even though many actresses who came from the amateur movement reach a high level of interpretation becoming professional. The charming girl, originally from Cameria, was a worker at the time at the "Stalin" Textile Factory. The director Muharrem Fejzo had to find a girl to play the role of Hana, according to the scenario of a girl who dreams of becoming an assembler and falls in love with a boy at the construction site. It will be the well-known painter of the film Shyqyri Sako who will discover Fatbardhe and present it to the staff assigned to the film "Montatorja". This was Mrs. Cani's approach to Albanian cinematography. Although our country had a considerable number of actresses who graduated from ILA, not all of them were lucky enough to have leading roles, regardless of their acting skills, while Fatbardha (as her name bears), after the film "Montatorja" was not but she remained in the history of the Albanian film as the special case, perhaps the rarest, of an amateur actress, in the role of the protagonist! Later, he worked in TVSH as an announcer and also presented the monthly music show, according to the requests of the viewers.
FERIDON BERBERI (1935 – 2020) 
Do you remember the scene on the bus where the peasant sitting in front of "Teto Ollges", while eating, addresses her: "Have you ever been to our side"? He is an amateur actor in the organization of Estrade Pogradec, Feridon Berberi. He was born in Pogradec on July 12, 1935. In addition to his work with the variety troupe of the city where he was born, he was active in two Albanian films, in "Mengjeze lufte" – 1971 and "Lady from the City" – 1976. The actor changed his life on February 17 2020
FLORA MERTIRI 
The actress was not lucky enough to act in many feature films. She is remembered by our audience in the excellent film "Captain" in 1972, in the role of the mayor. He has changed his life.
FLORINDA MANUSHI 
Even the actress Florinda Manushi was part of that constellation of secondary role actresses. She is remembered in the movie "War Path" as Kanan's girlfriend, as it is fixed in the picture above.
FREDERIK ŽILLA 
Performed in the films: Dream for a Chair – 1984; LOVE YOUR NAME – 1984; When Life's Doors Open – 1986; AND THE DAY COMES – 1986; Women's Deputy – 1987; Colors of the Age – 1990.
YOUNG METOHU 
The actor masterfully played the role of Martin Cami in the beautiful Kinostudio film "New Albania" – "The Fall of the Idols".
JOVALIN CHEST 
He graduated as an actor from the High Institute of Arts. He is the son of the great actor Pjeter Gjoka. Although not with the brilliance of his father, as an actor of secondary roles, his artistic career is more in the theater, such as in "Arturo Ui" in the role of the son of Dogsborus (actually in the real role alongside his father P. Gjokes), "Mountain chick" etc. It has also been activated in Kinostudio films, where we can mention it in "The Fall of Idols".
HASAN FICO Postman Malo of "The Lady from the City" 
He was an amateur actor, small in stature and with a difficult articulation of the word, but who has performed, albeit in episodic roles, in some of Kinostudio's Albanian films. All those who have known him describe him as a loving, friendly man who is ready to cooperate and give his contribution to Albanian cinema. Although an amateur, he was lucky enough to play in a considerable number of Albanian films, alongside the stars of our cinema. He started with a role in the cinecomedy "Odyssey of the fans" in 1972. In the memory of Albanian film lovers, the role of the postman Malo in "Lady from the city" remained, a role that also gave him the identification for that part of the spectator who did not recognize him by name. Other films: "Light Commissioner" – 1966 / "The Eighth in the Bronx" – 1970 / "Odyssey of the Fans" – 1972 / "War Path" – 1974 / "Looking for the 5 o'clock" – 1974 / "Lady from the City" – 1976 / "Circus in the village" – 1977 / "Tomka and his friends" – 1977 / "Concert in the year 36" – 1978 / "Girls with red ribbons" – 1978 / "A friend from the village" – 1980 / " Fracture" – 1983 / "Students of my class" – 1984 / "Dream of a chair" – 1984 / "Measure twice" – 1986
HASAN KONCI "The spy of the film "Ambush" 
Amateur actor active in several Albanian films, in several episodic roles. In 1963, he was active in the film "Special Assignment", then in "Ambush" (1968), "When it dawned on a day" (1971) in the role of a truck owner, "Bloody Earth" (1976) as well as in "Hearts that never grow old" (1977). He stands out in the role of an exponent of the National Front in the film "Prita" and his jokes in this film are still fixed on the viewer such as: "You are brave" while he is greeted with a fist by those in the front, and a little further while he is looking for to run away from the battle, he addresses two of his brave men in the rear: "And you, you should be at the front of the war".
HARILLA VJERO 
Part of the group of secondary actresses who were active in a considerable number of Kinostudio films. The actor acted in several films as follows: Students of my class -1984 Three men with guna – 1985 The investigation continues – 1988 Elastic boy – 1989, People in the stream – 1989 The death of the horse – 1992 Anet – 2014
ILIR DASHI 
The actor performed in the films: Guerrilla Unit – 1969; Illegals – 1976; MY WEDDING TOAST – 1978; Little Ceta – 1979.
ILIR HUNCI 
The actor was born in Korce. He acted in several Albanian films, among which we can mention: "I Paharruari" – 1984; "Strange Wedding" – 1986; "Spring Again" – 1987
ILIR FEBRUARY 
He was born in Pogradec on December 30, 1957. He was an actor in the Estrade troupe of the city of Pogradec. While in cinematography, he was active in several Kinostudio films with small roles, but which he managed to complete successfully. Among the films in which he has performed are: "Who dies walking", "Rails", "Small circle", "Temporary brilliance", "Colors of age".
JALDIZ DELIU 
Amateur actress with the profession of teacher. He was born in Tirana. She plays in the only film in the role of a lady in "Fijet qe priten" alongside the great artist Serafin Fanko. He has changed his life!
The list continues with the second part from KT, the link is as below: https://www.kinetografia-shqiptare-sporti.com/?p=21531&preview=true For the third part from TH – ZH, the link is here: ____________ Albanian Cinematografia – May 2021
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