Semka Sokolović-Bertok (22 December 1935 â€" 4 March 2008) was a
Yugoslav actress. She also was a competitive chess player in her
youth, winning the Croatian Chess Juniors Championship eight
times.Sokolović was born into a Bosniak family in Sarajevo, Bosnia
and Herzegovina. Her mother Abida was a seamstress. Sokolović's older
sister Badema (1929â€"1969) 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.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 (an adaptation of the Max Frisch's play Die Chinesische
Mauer). She also had a supporting role in La Corta delle bambole notte
di vetro (1971, directed by Aldo Lado), starring Ingrid Thulin and
Mario Adorf.
Yugoslav actress. She also was a competitive chess player in her
youth, winning the Croatian Chess Juniors Championship eight
times.Sokolović was born into a Bosniak family in Sarajevo, Bosnia
and Herzegovina. Her mother Abida was a seamstress. Sokolović's older
sister Badema (1929â€"1969) 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.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 (an adaptation of the Max Frisch's play Die Chinesische
Mauer). She also had a supporting role in La Corta delle bambole notte
di vetro (1971, directed by Aldo Lado), starring Ingrid Thulin and
Mario Adorf.
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