Llazi Sërbo 9 march 1945 – 12 September 2010) was an Albanian actor. His 40-year-long activity included around 100 roles. He is particularly remembered for the films Yjet e Neteve te gjata () (1972) and Operacioni Zjarri () (1973), whereas he also played an excellent German Wehrmacht official in the movie Nusja dhe shtetrrethimi () (1978). Sërbo was granted the Merited Artist of Albania award in 1991 and the Nderi i Qarkut () (of the County of Korçë) award in 2009. Sërbo had suffered for a long time from depression and committed suicide on 12 September 2010, following the example of the other well-known Albanian actor, Bekim Fehmiu, who had also killed himself three months earlier. Early life Sërbo was born in 1945 in the city of Korçë, where he finished the elementary and high school. After high school he worked as a painting teacher in the town of Pogradec. After two years of teaching he attended the Academy of Arts in Tirana, where he profitably studied acting in the following four years. Career Sërbo was for the following forty years an actor and director in the Andon Z. Çajupi theatre of Korçë. He also had prominent roles in many movies produced by the Albanian Kinostudio Shqipëria e Re. His first role in theatre was in the Njollat e murrme drama (). He also acted in many Albanian films. His first role in a movie was in Yjet e Neteve te gjata () (1972), in the role of Dajlan. His first starring role came in the Operacioni Zjarri film () (1973), where Sërbo had the role of Kreshnik Martini, a Sigurimi agent, infiltrated into an anti-communist band operating in northern Albania in 1953, a scenario taken from a real story. After that movie, Sërbo was one of the victims of the 1973 purges of the 11th Plenum of the Communist Party of Albania, which caused him to disappear from any movies for a full four-year period: during this time he played only on theatre roles. Upon his return to cinematography, he continued to excel in all the roles he played. Memorable is the role of the German Wehrmacht official in the Nusja dhe shtetrrethimi film () (1978). In this role he was silent in most of the movie, pronouncing only a few sentences in german language. Sërbo was considered to be a handsome actor and never passed unobserved in his