• Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, Elephant

  • Territories:

    Worldwide (except Italy).

  • Production year:

    2019

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    TV, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Albania extends its coasts along the Adriatic and Ionian Seas in the Balkan Peninsula. A crossroads of civilizations, this small country has ancient, medieval and Ottoman villages. Isolated for a long time by the communist regime that ruled it for forty years, the writer Ismail Kadare has shed a welcome light on his homeland. 

He spent his life writing about the totalitarian regime; the haunting atmosphere of the communist era resonated in the forty or so novels he wrote.

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