Hysen Hakani

Hysen Hakani was born on 28 July 1932. After his secondary studies in Tirana, he won a scholarship to learn directing at FAMU, the film faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where in 1957 he presented a short film as his graduation work. He then became one of the first trained directors of the Shqipëria e Re studio, where he made documentaries at the start of his career, then about ten fiction films until 1984. Regarded as one of the pioneers of directing in Albanian cinema, he died on 7 February 2011.

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• Feature filmDebatikHysen Hakani · 1961Cinema