Feature film
Strings for a Violin
Tela për violinë
Bujar Kapexhiu · 1987
Synopsis
Andon, a young violinist, is seriously preparing for the entrance competition to the Academy of Fine Arts. But his father, Kozma, takes it for granted that his son cannot succeed in the audition without backing: he sets friends and relatives in motion to put pressure on the jury. Muço, who chairs the admissions committee, struggles to remain impartial in the face of these approaches, and it is on the young violinist, though gifted, that his anger falls.
Context
The screenplay is by Pëllumb Kulla, after his own short story of the same title; the music is by Rexhep Hasimi, the photography by Lionel Konomi and the sets by Kleo Nini. Agim Qirjaqi plays Muço, with Met Bega, Pavlina Mani, Andon Qesari, Ilia Shyti and Melpomeni Çobani. Shot in Tirana, the film was released in April 1987. It is the second of the four fiction films its director made after some ten years spent in animation.
Who it is for
Fifty minutes of comedy in colour, spoken in Albanian; you need to know what an entrance examination was under that regime, and what a well-connected father could do.
Prizes and reception
Second prize at the eighth Albanian Film Festival; Agim Qirjaqi received an acting prize there, and the Aleksandër Moisiu prize for best actor of 1987.
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