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Original Film Title: KETU VALLEZOHET ME HIJET
Director’s Name: Pluton Vasi
Writer’s Name: Bashkim Hoxha
Producer: Vjollca Dedei, Pluton Vasi, Kastriot Abdyli, Dobromir Chochov
Country of Origin: Albania
Country of Filming : Albania
Language: Albanian
Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes 25 seconds
Film Description:
Based on a true story. The secrets that scar the soul.
Flora (Rovena Lule Kuka), a young journalist of Austrian-Albanian origin, works with an European Media visits her homeland to produce a feature on Mother Teresa. She was grown as the daughter of the enemy and she never knew her father poet who was killed by the communist regime. But soon she will face the surprise of her own identity, the clash of two times, yesterday’s and nowadays’. A knock at her door will change her life. Zigur, an ex-agent of the secret police, tells her a different truth. Flora learns the freaking story of her family and herself from the shadows of the past.
Zigur (Karafil Shena), an ex agent of the secret police reveals a secret of that time, a relationship of death and life that only a system as communism produces and stretches its tentacles nowadays. Before the fall of communism, Albania’s Secret Police listened to anyone’s secrets. Nothing is private or sacred. What they did not expect: the intimate view on the world of the ones he’s surveilling, changes the snitch. Looking at “the life of those artists” makes him aware of the beggarliness in his own life and enables access to a so far unknown world of love, art, free thinking and speaking he is hardly able to elude. And he falls in love.
Miriam (Eri Shuka), the mother of Flora, a beautiful ballerina of Austrian origin, brings a yesterday relationship between the individual and the state with all its atrocities that result with a dilemma of today’s choice. The individual, the state, the love, the survival in a time of surveillance, killing, rape, persecution. Everything faces the love for life.
The psychological statuses of relations among people and with the state where the dramas of each character are intermingled. Stories and characters that intervene with their past, present and they affect the future, stories that won’t let you escape the past. While the shadows of the past dance freely from one time to the other.