Albanian Communist dictatorship through love story

The tasks of the honourary consoles include along with the advice of industry and trade representatives and the spread of today's image abroad. And the movie “Portret unfinished”, directed by Namik Ayazi and the script of the Pulahu line, tells the story of an Albanian boy's banned love with Italian ambassador's daughter in the years dealt with in isolated Tirana during the rule of the communist dictatorship. Why the consul of honour chose for this activity a film that deals with a story from Albania's communist past.

“Answering this question I want to start with a hit expression by world-renowned Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto: “My eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the”. And the longer time goes by, the clearer it becomes to me what matters most has the close past of a nation in both personal planning to understand and confront itself and the international plan in dealing with other countries and aspirations to move forward.” says Consul Jonela Hoxhaj.

Dictatorship and Distinction of Universal Thought

According to her “Dictature, isolation, oppression or annihilation of free thought, are universal themes, not just not to be forgotten, but rather. They're more actual than ever. Many Albanian developments in recent years -- both positive and negative -- the world cannot understand without even knowing this nearly 50-year-old part of our history, which is often overlooked in the reports and documentaries here on Albania. And no one can do this better than us, who have experienced that time. ”

The director of Namik Ajazi film, has already worked with screenwriter Ruzhdi Pulaha on training subjects of the '80s, for example. for “Amanet” The restrictions of dictatorship stretched to every corner of life in Albania, to the intimate realm of love. You dared to have a flirt with a stranger at the time was like suicide over what the consequences would be. ” says Namik Ajazi.

Dictature controlled every aspect of life in Albania

There were several banned love stories of that time, “that were then whispered in a low voice and that the regime's speakers then spread hard to show “bottom” of those who had dared to breach the red line defined by the communist regime.” For his film, his authors consulted the files of former State Security, and despite the differences the seven stories had a common one: the same end to multi-year sentences in labor camps. The film's scene focused on one of the most painful cases of those years but also melted elements from other stories.

Even director Namik Ajazi thinks that “we still need films to revote that difficult time to absurdize, as generations that are growing up in today's wild pace, with innovation and the evolution of communication means, little is received information about that distant and close time simultaneously.

Finding Sleep From the Past Is Very Difficult Enterprise

The implementation of a movie for the years of Albania is an extremely difficult undertaking, because the minimum budgets the cinema offers do not promise to build interviews on professional headquarters and use special visual effects. To meet these shortcomings, director Ayazi cooperated for several months with the film's pentographer Fatball Mark to find the few facilities that have been preserved and who need it. To complete the views of Tirana, which is no more, worked a studio specialising in Italy on the special visual effects, which in professional language, is called VKF, which processed for film sequences shot back then. This did good to the film, brought us and the spectators the imagination of the old city, and this is another element that young people lack of film.” ) says film director Namik Ajazi.

Antonio Kodrinij, who plays the lead character of the film, did not live by himself. He has reached seven years of age in Italy, where he has studied and lived. After taking the script he said and excited and felt, it was the role he could play. To prepare for his role, he shows that “, following the course set by the director, I read some books and saw many movies showing that time.” Antonio says the role was not easy, but the “actor needs to get into everyone's skin and bring it as reliable and emotional as possible. And the professional staff, the spirit of cooperation throughout the footage, made the character easy.

After a premiere in Frankfurt on Main Albanian-Italian co-production “Porter unfinanced”, which won the award as “The best long filtration” at the 21st edition of the Independent Days Film Festival in Germany, is continuing to be shown in Frankfurt's traditional cinema <x4fofofereos Erben<5>