Vojislav "Voja" Mirić (Serbian Cyrillic: Воја Мирић; 7 April 1933 – 23 April 2019) was a Serbian television and film actor most noted for his role as Ahmed Nurudin in the 1974 Yugoslav movie Dervis i smrt (popularly known as Death and the Dervish).[1]

Life

Vojislav "Voja" Mirić was born on 7 April 1933 in Trstenik, central Serbia.[1][2] His film career spanned over 30 years. His first appearance on television was in the series Veliki poduhvat in 1960.[1] In 1964 he won the "Silver Arena" award as Best Actor in the Pula Film Festival of Yugoslavian Films for the Fadil Hadžić movie Službeni položaj.[2] His most notable performance came as the medieval Bosnian Dervish in the 1974 movie Derviš i smrt (The Dervish and Death).[1] His last appearance was in Amnezija in 1994.[2]

References

Further reading

• Pavle Levi, Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema, Stanford University Press; 1 edition (February 1, 2007); ISBN 978-0-8047-5368-5
• Daniel J. Goulding, Liberated Cinema, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001, Indiana University Press; (December 31, 2002); ISBN 978-0-253-21582-6

External links

• Voja Mirić at IMDb