Feature film
A Tale from the Past
Përrallë nga e kaluara
Dhimitër Anagnosti · 1987
Synopsis
In the thirties, a poor family from a village in the south marries off their daughter Marigo, who is twenty, to Gjino, the fourteen-year-old son of a well-off couple. Marigo loves another man, Trim, but custom obliges her to go through with the marriage. Once in her new family, she sets her parents-in-law against one another to make this union fail, and the comedy often turns strange.
Context
The screenplay is by the director himself, who starts from motifs of a comedy by Andon Zako Çajupi about a fourteen-year-old bridegroom. Elvira Diamanti and the young Admir Sorra play the couple, alongside Robert Ndrenika and Hajrie Rondo; the cinematography is by Pëllumb Kallfa and the music by Limoz Dizdari. The regime looked favourably on a film about pre-war customs, and the director draws from it an often surreal humour. Restored by the national archive, the film was shown at the Lumière Festival in Lyon in 2023.
Who it is for
One hour twenty minutes, in colour, spoken in Albanian and subtitled since its restoration; there is nothing you need to know beforehand.
Prizes and reception
Aleksandër Moisiu Prize for screenplay in 1988; second prize at the eighth Albanian film festival and at the Eastern European film festival in Bondy, in 1990.
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