Razvod Po Albanski . Divorce Albanian Style
Verzio FF This story of love and separation takes place in the surreal world of 1960s communist Albania. Film’s protagonists reveal the experience of the many thousands of families that were forcibly separated by the totalitarian regime of Enver Hodja, the longest-serving European dictator of the 20...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Russian Polish Albanian |
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Bulgaria
2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:b87e9446-6a54-4bcb-8f65-e5594f10ac0e |
| Summary: | Verzio FF
This story of love and separation takes place in the surreal world of 1960s communist Albania. Film’s protagonists reveal the experience of the many thousands of families that were forcibly separated by the totalitarian regime of Enver Hodja, the longest-serving European dictator of the 20th century. In 1961, Enver Hodja broke off Albania’s relations with the Soviet Union. Albanian men married to foreign women were forced by the state to split from their wives who were subsequently expelled.The official reason was alleged espionage. Hojda quickly created a mechanism to deal with those who refused to leave. KGB-trained secret police collected “evidence,” minor clerks became “investigators,” carpenters were made into prosecutors and labor camps expanded. The women who stayed – and their husbands - spent years in prisons, the last released in 1987. Divorce Albanian Style tells the stories of three of these couples, and of the apparatchiks and officers of the secret police who changed their lives forever. |
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| Published: | 2007 |