Semka Sokolović-Bertok


Semka Sokolović-Bertok was a Yugoslav actress. She also was a competitive chess player in her youth, winning the Croatian Chess Juniors Championship eight times.

Personal life

Sokolović was born into a Bosniak family in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her mother Abida was a seamstress. Sokolović's older sister Badema was a mezzo-soprano singer.
In March 2008, Sokolović's son Mario Bertok announced her death from internal bleeding following a stroke. She was 72.

Career

In addition to her work at a theatre in Zagreb she appeared in numerous film roles. She made her film debut in 1956. Among others, she performed in the 1967 TV film Kineski zid. She also had a supporting role in La Corta delle bambole notte di vetro, starring Ingrid Thulin and Mario Adorf.
In the TV movie Roko i Cicibela she played the female lead role. Sokolović-Bertok also starred as a teacher in the satirical film Majstori, majstori!. Her last film was Traktor, ljubezen in Rock'n'Roll. Her final film roles were in 2004's Days and Hours, directed by Pjer Žalica, and the 2006 film Grbavica, directed by Jasmila Žbanić.