Profile of actress Raimonda Bulku!

Raimonda Bulku
A well-known Albanian theater and cinematography actress.

Born in Tirana on August 16, 1958. She started her artistic career when she was a student in the third year of High School, in 1976 when she was even going to act in the cinema in the movie “The Last Winter”, with a role of a villager who, together with other village women, helps the war movement. Precisely this film was awarded the medal at the second Albanian Film Festival.

After high school, she started working as an editor at Kinostudio “Shqiperia e Re” and then began her studies at ILA, where Bulku graduated from the drama department in 1985, (Higher Institute of Arts), in Tirana.

After that, Bulku was appointed an actress at the Popular Theater (later National Theater). On the stage of the Theater, she has played several roles, even the main ones, but she became known through films.

Thus, in the theater, with a career of two decades, we can mention the plays: “Death of a Commissioner” as Leta; “Palace 176” the role of Irene; “Me and Melistofeli” in the role of Margarita; “The 6th Floor” as Irena; Irena again in “Awakening”; “The Great Magic”; as Marigo in “Sisters”; as Sano in the comedy “Paradise is on the second floor”; Zehrja in the drama “Shadows of the Night” etc.

Thanks to her beauty, physical charm, sincerity and truth, as well as her acting skills, Raimonda Bulku has become more popular on the big screen, where she plays 20 roles and even some of them are the main ones. Two years later after making her debut, in 1978, she stands out in “Nusja dhe shtetrrethimi” thanks to a communication that her role as a bride makes with the spectator through her expressive eyes and inner calm.

In 1984, with the role of Jona in the movie “Love Your Name”, Bulku won the Cup of the 5th Albanian Film Festival. A role with a clear psychological tendency, where the experience of an undeserved love was deeply and sincerely experienced by the actress.

Unlike this role, where it is close to the specificity of the game in the art of cinematography, in Magda in the film “Vite e pritjes” (1990), with which she was awarded the first prize at the IX Film Festival, she introduces no a bit of theater-type acting, unfolding the dramatic side, thanks to a strong inner psychological game.

While in the movie “Vdekja e kalit” in the role of Meri, it seems as if she weaves together the two plans above, with soft and fragile tones of a woman in love and unfortunate.

In the alarming plan, between pain, hidden anxiety, guilt and victimization, she interprets the difficult role of Diane in the film “Te paftuarit” (1985) alongside her professor, the famous actor Vangjush Furrxhi, with whom she won the Medallion of VII Film Festival.

In the theater she performs several different roles but without achieving the same success as she did on the screen, due to the natural data she offers to this art such as her warm voice, beautiful portrait, the ability to master the camera to show herself as truly as possible, and direct.

On the stage of the theater, she has interpreted difficult characters with a psychological bearing as well as a witty and sarcastic sense, such as that of the goddess Athena in the play “Stine e merzitshme ne Olympus” in 2002 Ismail Kadare’s drama.

The shortening of the offers from the cinema made her dedicate herself more to the theater, so one of the most successful roles in the theater for Raimonda was realized in 2004 in the drama “Pjata e drujte” by Morrison, where she reaches her highest levels, having the support of a great actor such as the “People’s Artist” Sulejman Pitarka.

With this role, she also won the first prize at the “Talia” Theater Festival in 2005 in Diber, Macedonia.

This year, she plays the role of Mother in Vedat Kokona’s drama “Shadows of the Night”.

In 2006, she continues in the theater with another role, that of Aida in “Pulebardha” by Mihallaq Luarasi, where the effort to create real human characters is noticeable, taking into account, first of all, the humane side of the character and second time that spiritual shock of the woman in love.

With another female role in the comedy “My Wife’s Husband”, she broke her tried-and-tested format for roles of a dramatic nature, entering a new interpretive space.

Movies :
Dimri i fundit / Last Winter – (1976)
Zonja nga qyteti / Lady from the City – (1976)…Meli
Nusja dhe shtetrrethimi / The Bride and the Curfew – (1977)
Emblema e dikurshme / The Emblem of the Past – (1977)
Nje udhetim i veshtore / A Difficult Journey – (1977)
Balle per balle / Face to Face – (1979).. ……
Nje shoqe nga fshati  / A comradess from the village – (1980)…Meli Kercenimi / The Threat – (1981) ………….Ema
Duaje emrin tend / Love your name – (1984)….. ..
Te paftuarit / Uninvited – (1985) …
Gabimi / The Mistake – (1986)
Dhe vjen nje dite / And One Day Comes – (1986)
Vrasje ne gjueti / Killing in the hunt – (1987)
Biaret / The Rails – (1987)
Muri i gjalle / The Living Wall – (1989)….Lina
Kthimi i ushtrise se vdekur / The Return of the Army Dead – (1989)

Ngjyrat e moshes / The colors of age -(1990)
Nje djale dhe nje vajze / A boy and a girl (1990) … teacher Matilda
Vitet e pritjes / Waiting years (1990) … Magda
Vdekja e kalit / The death of a horse (1992)…
Nekrologji (1994)
Tirana, year zero – (2001)
Omiros (2005)
Etjet e Kosoves  (2006) as Zana
Familjet (2009)….
Kafeja e fundit (2010)

Other roles in Theater performance:
Natë me hënë – (1990)
Troja (teater) (2006)
Pjata prej druri – (2007) (teater)
Kohë për t‘u çmendur – (2009) teatër
Te gjithë kanë huqe – (2009) teatër, komedi

It was previously published on the “Albanian Cinematography” Facebook page in August 2016

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Reference: “Encyclopedia, Theater and Albanian Cinema” – Toena 2009 / J. Papagjoni / p. 57-58; “60 years of the National Theater 1945-2005” – F. Slatina / page 112. As well as a selection of different news from online Albanian newspapers;

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