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He had to steal to survive: Here's what Bora Todorović did before acting, life was not kind to him
Although we remember him as the charming Đenka or the lucid Pika, the life story of Borivoje Bora Todorović in childhood was far from a comedy. It was the raw neorealism of Belgrade streets under occupation, where the stake was life itself. His sister, the great Mira Stupica, left the deepest mark in her memoirs "A Handful of Salt" on who the boy who would become the bard of our acting scene actually was. After the death of his father and the loss of his mother's job, the Todorović family faced unimaginable poverty. Mira recalls evenings in a cold, half-ruined house:
TL;DR
- Bora Todorović's childhood was marked by severe poverty in occupied Belgrade.
- His family struggled after his father's death and mother's job loss.
- He worked as a porter and stole to survive, facing violence and danger.
- Mira Stupica, his sister, detailed these hardships in her memoirs.
- Todorović died at 84 after a routine surgery led to a fatal stroke.