El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia (2023)
Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea fleeing from the war... Familiar scenes that we are used to seeing in recent times. But the year is 1944, and the refugees are travelling from Europe to Africa. After Italian capitulation,and before the arrival of German army, 28 000 Dalmatian Croats left their home villages and towns to live for two years under the tents in the middle of Egyptian desert, in a kind of a communist model village that was formed to show the Allies how the new Yugoslavia will look like when the war ends. This is a story about them.
Director: Ivan Ramljak
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Bojan Brajčić as Living Newspaper Member |
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Lidija Florijan as Living Newspaper Member |
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Nada Kovačević as Living Newspaper Member |
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Dubravka Vrcan as Self (voice) |
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Mira Šiljić as Self (voice) |
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Ružica Poljaković as Self (voice) |
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Ante Božanić Milić as Self (voice) |
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Kristina Alfirević as Self (voice) |
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Emil Bobanović Čolić as Self (voice) |
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Ivna Marinović Poparić as Self (voice) |
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Vesna Jakić Cestarić as Self (voice) |
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Olga Padovan as Self (voice) |
| Production | Sunčica Fradelić | Co-Producer |
| Production | Mladen Kovačević | Co-Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nevena Čaklović | Costume Designer |
| Production | Iva Plemić Divjak | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Vladimir Živković | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Miloš Drndarević | Sound Editor |
| Crew | Boris Poljak | Cinematography |
| Sound | Sunčica Ana Veldić | Sound Recordist |
| Production | Tibor Keser | Producer |
| Editing | Jelena Maksimović | Editor |
| Sound | Hrvoje Radnić | Sound Recordist |
| Directing | Ivan Ramljak | Director |
| Writing | Ivan Ramljak | Writer |