Irfan Mensur

Irfan Mensur (Serbian Cyrillic: Ирфан Менсур; born Irfan Kurić, Serbian Cyrillic: Ирфан Курић; 19 January 1952) is a Serbian theatre, television, and film actor of Bosnian descent.

Irfan Mensur
Ирфан Менсур
Born
Irfan Kurić

(1952-01-19) 19 January 1952
Sarajevo, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
OccupationActor
Years active1973–present
Spouses
Ljiljana Perović
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(m. 1976; div. 1984)​
    Srna Lango
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    (m. 1995; div. 2012)​
    Children2

    Early life

    Born to father Mensur Kurić from Niš whose family traces its origins to Donji Vakuf in Bosnia and Herzegovina and mother Nada Wasche from Sarajevo, Irfan grew up in Sarajevo's Dolac Malta neighbourhood.[1][2] At the age of 15, as a result of his parents divorcing, young Irfan moved with his father to Niš.

    In Niš, Irfan's father married actress Miroslava "Mima" Vuković, so Irfan spent part of his teenage years with a stepmother.[1]

    Encouraged by his stepmother, young Irfan pursued performing arts and successfully passed the audition to enroll at the Academy of Theatre, Film, Radio and Television in Belgrade.[1] Soon after moving to Belgrade, he legally changed his last name to Mensur in honour of his father.[1]

    Cinematic career

    After appearing in several supporting roles in different Yugoslav TV series and TV movies, in 1975, twenty-two-year-old Mensur landed the role of Gavrilo Princip in a high-budget Yugoslav-Czech-German co-production The Day That Shook the World directed by Veljko Bulajić. Released in a number of countries, the film about the 1914 assassination of the Austro-Hungarian archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo was met with lukewarm reviews and had limited box office success. For his part, in later interviews, Mensur talked about being extremely dissatisfied with his own performance in the high-profile movie that "marked me in the Yugoslav public consciousness to the point of forcing me to have to go around convincing different film and TV people [in Yugoslavia] that I'm actually not a bad actor".[3]

    Selected filmography

    Film
    Year Title Role Notes
    1975 The Day That Shook the World Gavrilo Princip
    1976 Beach Guard in Winter Dragan Pasanovic
    1977 The Dog Who Loved Trains Mladic
    1982 The Smell of Quinces Ibrahim
    1982 A Tight Spot Profesor 'Japanac'
    1989 Battle of Kosovo Makarije
    1999 Sky Hook Zuka

    Personal life

    In 1976, at the height of his Beach Guard in Winter popularity in Yugoslavia, twenty-four-year-old Mensur married the twenty-three-year-old Trebinje-born model Ljiljana Perović who had, much like him, also spent her childhood in Sarajevo before ending up in Belgrade in pursuit of a show business career.[4] The couple had a son, Filip, in 1983 before divorcing in 1984.[4]

    In 1995, Mensur married Srna Lango who, like Mensur, already had a son from a previous marriage.[5] Their son Pavle was born in 1999.[5] In December 2010, Irfan and Srna appeared as contestants in popular reality show Parovi on the Serbian TV station Happy TV. The couple divorced in 2012.[5]

    In April 2013, sixty-one-year-old Mensur suffered a heart attack while preparing a play at the Zoran Radmilović Theater in Zaječar.[6][7][8] He was immediately rushed to a cardiovascular clinic in Belgrade where a triple bypass surgery was performed.[8]

    References
    1. "Otac mu je bio beg, a majka grofica: Njegove uloge oduševljavale su celu SFRJ, a malo ko zna da je Irfan Mensur promenio prezime, a za to je imao dobar razlog". Kurir. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
    2. Bakić, Emina (22 October 2017). "Irfan Mensur za "Dnevni avaz" o karijeri, privatnom životu, rodnom Sarajevu...: Neke uloge sam prihvatio da bih preživio!". Dnevni avaz. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
    3. "Zbog ovog filma sam morao da ubeđujem ljude da nisam loš glumac: Irfan Mensur iskreno o honorarima, glumačkim počecima i greškama". Kurir. 3 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
    4. M., N. (27 March 2019). "Svi znaju za brak sa Srnom Lango, a ovo je prva supruga Irfana Mensura: Bila je jedna od najlepših žena Jugoslavije!". Puls online. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
    5. "Razvode se Srna Lango i Irfan Mensur". Kurir. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
    6. "Irfan Mensur doživeo infarkt". B92. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
    7. Đorđević, Vesna (11 April 2013). "Glumac Irfan Mensur doživeo infarkt, hitno operisan". Blic. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
    8. "Nije znao da doživljava infarkt: Irfan Mensur se oporavlja". Kurir. 12 April 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
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