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|name = Irfan Mensur
|native_name = Ирфан Менсур
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|birth_name = Irfan Kurić
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|01|19|df=y}}
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|01|19|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Sarajevo]], [[People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|PR Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia|FPR Yugoslavia]]
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|yearsactive = 1973–present
|yearsactive = 1973–present
|occupation = Actor
|occupation = Actor
|spouse =
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* {{marriage|Ljiljana Perović|1976|1984|end=divorce}}
* {{marriage|Srna Lango|1995|2012|end=divorce}}
}}
|children = 2
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'''Irfan Mensur''' (born '''Irfan Kurić'''; 19 January 1952) is a Bosnian theatre, television, and film actor.
'''Irfan Mensur''' ({{lang-sr-cyr|Ирфан Менсур}}; born '''Irfan Kurić''', {{lang-sr-cyr|Ирфан Курић}}; 19 January 1952) is a Serbian theatre, television, and film actor of Bosnian descent.


==Early life==
==Early life==
Born to father Mensur Kurić from [[Niš]] whose family roots go back to [[Donji Vakuf]] and mother Nada Wasche from [[Sarajevo]], Irfan grew up in Sarajevo's [[Novo Sarajevo|Dolac Malta]] neghbourhood.<ref name="kurir-april-2019">{{cite news|url=https://www.kurir.rs/zabava/pop-kultura/3241319/otac-mu-je-bio-beg-a-majka-grofica-njegove-uloge-odusevljavale-su-celu-sfrj-a-malo-ko-zna-da-je-irfan-mensur-promenio-prezime-a-za-to-je-imao-dobar-razlog|title=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|agency=''[[Kurir]]''|date=23 April 2019|accessdate=3 May 2020}}</ref><ref name="avaz-october-2017">{{cite news|first=Emina|last=Bakić|url=https://avaz.ba/vijesti/intervju/313536/irfan-mensur-za-%E2%80%9Cdnevni-avaz%E2%80%9D-o-karijeri-privatnom-zivotu-rodnom-sarajevu-neke-uloge-sam-prihvatio-da-bih-prezivio|title=Irfan Mensur za “Dnevni avaz” o karijeri, privatnom životu, rodnom Sarajevu...: Neke uloge sam prihvatio da bih preživio!|agency=''[[Dnevni avaz]]''|date=22 October 2017|accessdate=3 May 2020}}</ref> At age 15, his parents divorced and the teenager moved to Niš with his father. In Niš, his father married actress [[:sr:Мима Вуковић Курић|Miroslava "Mima" Vuković]], meaning that part of Irfan's adolescence was spent with a stepmother.<ref name="kurir-april-2019"/>
Born to father Mensur Kurić from [[Niš]] whose family traces its origins to [[Donji Vakuf]] in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] and [[Sarajevo]]-born mother Nada Wasche of [[Czechs|Czech]] and [[Hungarians|Hungarian]] descent,<ref name="kurir-march-2024">{{cite news|first=Ljubomir|last=Radanov|url=https://www.kurir.rs/zabava/kultura/4367381/irfan-mensur-zivotna-prica-smrt-i-kako-je-dobio-pistolj|title=Potresna životna priča glumca: Hteli su da me ubiju DEVEDESETIH|agency=''[[Kurir]]''|date=17 March 2024|accessdate=20 March 2024}}</ref> Irfan grew up in Sarajevo's [[Novo Sarajevo|Dolac Malta]] neighbourhood.<ref name="kurir-april-2019">{{cite news|url=https://www.kurir.rs/zabava/pop-kultura/3241319/otac-mu-je-bio-beg-a-majka-grofica-njegove-uloge-odusevljavale-su-celu-sfrj-a-malo-ko-zna-da-je-irfan-mensur-promenio-prezime-a-za-to-je-imao-dobar-razlog|title=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|agency=''[[Kurir]]''|date=23 April 2019|accessdate=3 May 2020}}</ref><ref name="avaz-october-2017">{{cite news|first=Emina|last=Bakić|url=https://avaz.ba/vijesti/intervju/313536/irfan-mensur-za-%E2%80%9Cdnevni-avaz%E2%80%9D-o-karijeri-privatnom-zivotu-rodnom-sarajevu-neke-uloge-sam-prihvatio-da-bih-prezivio|title=Irfan Mensur za “Dnevni avaz” o karijeri, privatnom životu, rodnom Sarajevu...: Neke uloge sam prihvatio da bih preživio!|agency=''[[Dnevni avaz]]''|date=22 October 2017|accessdate=3 May 2020}}</ref> His childhood pursuits in Sarajevo generally revolved around sports.<ref name="kurir-march-2024"/> At the age of 15, as a result of his parents divorcing, young Irfan moved with his father to Niš.

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On his stepmother's encouragement, he pursued performing arts and managed to pass the audition to enroll at the [[Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade|Academy of Theatre, Film, Radio and Television]] in [[Belgrade]].<ref name="kurir-april-2019"/> Soon after moving to Belgrade, he legally changed his last name to '''Mensur''' in honour of his father.<ref name="kurir-april-2019"/>


In Niš, Irfan's father married the actress {{ill|Mima Vuković|sr|Мима Вуковић Курић|lt=Miroslava "Mima" Vuković}}, so adolescent Irfan spent part of his teenage years living with a stepmother.<ref name="kurir-april-2019"/>
==Career==
He is living and playing roles in Serbia for 30 years. He is married to actress Srna Lango. The couple lives in [[Belgrade]] and they have one son. Both have children from previous marriages.


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Encouraged by his stage actress [[stepmother]], young Irfan began pursuing performing arts after, by own admission, setting foot inside a theater for the first time at age 16.<ref name="kurir-march-2024"/> Within a few years, he successfully passed the audition to enrol at the [[Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade|Academy of Theatre, Film, Radio and Television]] in [[Belgrade]] where he began studying under the tutelage of professor Minja Dedić.<ref name="kurir-april-2019"/><ref name="kurir-march-2024"/> Soon after moving to Belgrade, he legally changed his last name to '''Mensur''' in honour of his father.<ref name="kurir-april-2019"/>
During the 2000s decade, the couple took one of the main roles in TV serial ''Jelena'' filmed in the production of Serbian [[RTV BK Telecom]].


==Cinematic career==
In December 2010, Irfan and Srna appeared as contestants in popular reality show ''[[Parovi]]'' on the Serbian TV station [[Happy TV]].
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-Czechoslovak-West German co-production, ''[[The Day That Shook the World]]''. Directed by [[Veljko Bulajić]] and featuring a cast headed by prominent, globally-known actors [[Christopher Plummer]], [[Florinda Bolkan]], and [[Maximilian Schell]], the film about the 1914 [[Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand|assassination]] of the Austro-Hungarian archduke [[Franz Ferdinand]] in [[Sarajevo]] was an ambitious and generously funded project that ended up securing a theatrical release in a number of countries. However, it was met with lukewarm reviews and 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".<ref name="kurir-december-2022">{{cite news|url=https://www.kurir.rs/zabava/kultura/4062444/irfan-mensur-iskreno-o-glumackim-pocecima-i-honorarima|title=Zbog ovog filma sam morao da ubeđujem ljude da nisam loš glumac: Irfan Mensur iskreno o honorarima, glumačkim počecima i greškama|agency=''[[Kurir]]''|date=3 December 2022|accessdate=5 December 2022}}</ref>


==Selected filmography==
==Selected filmography==
===Film===
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*''[[The Day That Shook the World]]'' (1975)
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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*''[[Beach Guard in Winter]]'' (1976)
|-
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*''[[The Dog Who Loved Trains]]'' (1977)
! Year
⚫
*''[[The Smell of Quinces]]'' (1982)
! Title
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*''[[A Tight Spot]]'' (1982)
! Role
*''[[Escape from Sobibor]]'' (1987)
! class="unsortable" | Notes
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*''[[Battle of Kosovo (film)|Battle of Kosovo]]'' (1989)
|-
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*''[[Sky Hook (film)|Sky Hook]]'' (1999)
|1975
*''[[A View from Eiffel Tower]]'' (2005)
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|''[[The Day That Shook the World]]''
|[[Gavrilo Princip]]
|
|-
|1976
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|''[[Beach Guard in Winter]]''
|Dragan Pasanovic
|
|-
|1977
⚫
|''[[The Dog Who Loved Trains]]''
|Mladic
|
|-
|1982
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|''[[The Smell of Quinces]]''
|Ibrahim
|
|-
|1982
⚫
|''[[A Tight Spot]]''
|Profesor 'Japanac'
|
|-
|1989
⚫
|''[[Battle of Kosovo (film)|Battle of Kosovo]]''
|Makarije
|
|-
|1999
⚫
|''[[Sky Hook (film)|Sky Hook]]''
|Zuka
|
|-
|}


==Personal==
==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.<ref name="puls-mart-2019">{{cite news|url=https://www.pulsonline.rs/puls-poznatih/svi-znaju-za-brak-sa-srnom-lango-a-ovo-je-prva-supruga-irfana-mensura-bila-je-jedna/0ggb3xj|title=Svi znaju za brak sa Srnom Lango, a ovo je prva supruga Irfana Mensura: Bila je jedna od najlepših žena Jugoslavije!|agency=Puls online|date=27 March 2019|accessdate=3 May 2020}}</ref> The couple had a son, Filip, in 1983 before divorcing in 1984.<ref name="puls-mart-2019"/>
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.<ref name="puls-mart-2019">{{cite news|first=N.|last=M.|url=https://www.pulsonline.rs/puls-poznatih/svi-znaju-za-brak-sa-srnom-lango-a-ovo-je-prva-supruga-irfana-mensura-bila-je-jedna/0ggb3xj|title=Svi znaju za brak sa Srnom Lango, a ovo je prva supruga Irfana Mensura: Bila je jedna od najlepših žena Jugoslavije!|agency=Puls online|date=27 March 2019|accessdate=3 May 2020}}</ref> The couple had a son, Filip, in 1983 before divorcing in 1984.<ref name="puls-mart-2019"/>


In 1995, forty-three-year-old Mensur married twenty-four-year-old actress [[:sr:Срна Ланго|Srna Lango]] who, like Mensur, already had a son from a previous marriage.<ref name="Kurir-nov-2012">{{cite news|url=https://www.kurir.rs/stars/533227/razvode-se-srna-lango-i-irfan-mensur|title=Razvode se Srna Lango i Irfan Mensur|agency=''[[Kurir]]''|date=29 November 2012|accessdate=3 May 2020}}</ref> Their son Pavle was born in 1999.<ref name="Kurir-nov-2012"/> The couple divorced in 2012.<ref name="Kurir-nov-2012"/>
In 1995, Mensur married the actress {{ill|Srna Lango|sr}} who, like Mensur, already had a son from a previous marriage.<ref name="Kurir-nov-2012">{{cite news|url=https://www.kurir.rs/stars/533227/razvode-se-srna-lango-i-irfan-mensur|title=Razvode se Srna Lango i Irfan Mensur|agency=''[[Kurir]]''|date=29 November 2012|accessdate=3 May 2020}}</ref> Their son {{ill|Pavle Mensur|lt=Pavle|sr}} was born in 1999.<ref name="Kurir-nov-2012"/> 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.<ref name="Kurir-nov-2012"/>


In April 2013, sixty-one-year-old Mensur suffered a [[heart attack]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.b92.net/kultura/vesti.php?nav_category=1087&yyyy=2013&mm=04&dd=11&nav_id=703971|title=Irfan Mensur doživeo infarkt|agency=[[B92]]|date=11 April 2013|accessdate=3 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Vesna|last=Đorđević|url=https://www.blic.rs/kultura/vesti/glumac-irfan-mensur-doziveo-infarkt-hitno-operisan/fylnhx9|title=Glumac Irfan Mensur doživeo infarkt, hitno operisan|agency=''[[Blic]]''|date=11 April 2013|accessdate=3 May 2020}}</ref> while preparing a play at Zoran Radmilović Threater in [[Zaječar]].<ref name="kurir-april-2013">{{cite news|url=https://www.kurir.rs/zabava/pop-kultura/740015/nije-znao-da-dozivljava-infarkt-irfan-mensur-se-oporavlja|title=Nije znao da doživljava infarkt: Irfan Mensur se oporavlja|agency=''[[Kurir]]''|date=12 April 2013|accessdate=3 May 2020}}</ref> He was immediately rushed to a cardiovascular clinic in Belgrade where a [[coronary artery bypass surgery|triple bypass surgery]] was performed.<ref name="kurir-april-2013"/>
In April 2013, sixty-one-year-old Mensur suffered a [[heart attack]] while preparing a play at the Zoran Radmilović Theater in [[Zaječar]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.b92.net/kultura/vesti.php?nav_category=1087&yyyy=2013&mm=04&dd=11&nav_id=703971|title=Irfan Mensur doživeo infarkt|agency=[[B92]]|date=11 April 2013|accessdate=3 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Vesna|last=Đorđević|url=https://www.blic.rs/kultura/vesti/glumac-irfan-mensur-doziveo-infarkt-hitno-operisan/fylnhx9|title=Glumac Irfan Mensur doživeo infarkt, hitno operisan|agency=''[[Blic]]''|date=11 April 2013|accessdate=3 May 2020}}</ref><ref name="kurir-april-2013">{{cite news|url=https://www.kurir.rs/zabava/pop-kultura/740015/nije-znao-da-dozivljava-infarkt-irfan-mensur-se-oporavlja|title=Nije znao da doživljava infarkt: Irfan Mensur se oporavlja|agency=''[[Kurir]]''|date=12 April 2013|accessdate=3 May 2020}}</ref> He was immediately rushed to a cardiovascular clinic in Belgrade where a [[coronary artery bypass surgery|triple bypass surgery]] was performed.<ref name="kurir-april-2013"/>


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 05:15, 18 May 2024

Irfan Mensur
Ирфан Менсур
Born
Irfan Kurić

(1952-01-19) 19 January 1952 (age 72)
Sarajevo, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
OccupationActor
Years active1973–present
Spouses
Ljiljana Perović
​
​
(m. 1976; div. 1984)​
Srna Lango
​
​
(m. 1995; div. 2012)​
Children2

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.

Early life[edit]

Born to father Mensur Kurić from Niš whose family traces its origins to Donji Vakuf in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sarajevo-born mother Nada Wasche of Czech and Hungarian descent,[1] Irfan grew up in Sarajevo's Dolac Malta neighbourhood.[2][3] His childhood pursuits in Sarajevo generally revolved around sports.[1] 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 the actress Miroslava "Mima" Vuković [sr], so adolescent Irfan spent part of his teenage years living with a stepmother.[2]

Encouraged by his stage actress stepmother, young Irfan began pursuing performing arts after, by own admission, setting foot inside a theater for the first time at age 16.[1] Within a few years, he successfully passed the audition to enrol at the Academy of Theatre, Film, Radio and Television in Belgrade where he began studying under the tutelage of professor Minja Dedić.[2][1] Soon after moving to Belgrade, he legally changed his last name to Mensur in honour of his father.[2]

Cinematic career[edit]

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-Czechoslovak-West German co-production, The Day That Shook the World. Directed by Veljko Bulajić and featuring a cast headed by prominent, globally-known actors Christopher Plummer, Florinda Bolkan, and Maximilian Schell, the film about the 1914 assassination of the Austro-Hungarian archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo was an ambitious and generously funded project that ended up securing a theatrical release in a number of countries. However, it was met with lukewarm reviews and 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".[4]

Selected filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

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[edit]

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.[5] The couple had a son, Filip, in 1983 before divorcing in 1984.[5]

In 1995, Mensur married the actress Srna Lango [sr] who, like Mensur, already had a son from a previous marriage.[6] Their son Pavle [sr] was born in 1999.[6] 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.[6]

In April 2013, sixty-one-year-old Mensur suffered a heart attack while preparing a play at the Zoran Radmilović Theater in Zaječar.[7][8][9] He was immediately rushed to a cardiovascular clinic in Belgrade where a triple bypass surgery was performed.[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Radanov, Ljubomir (17 March 2024). "Potresna životna priča glumca: Hteli su da me ubiju DEVEDESETIH". Kurir. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d "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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ a b 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.
  6. ^ a b c "Razvode se Srna Lango i Irfan Mensur". Kurir. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Irfan Mensur doživeo infarkt". B92. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  8. ^ Đorđević, Vesna (11 April 2013). "Glumac Irfan Mensur doživeo infarkt, hitno operisan". Blic. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  9. ^ a b "Nije znao da doživljava infarkt: Irfan Mensur se oporavlja". Kurir. 12 April 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2020.

External links[edit]

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