Gjirokastra (2024)
Albania in the 1960s, the city of Gjirokastra. Katya, a graduate of the Philology Department of Moscow State University, marries an Albanian, a young historian whom she met in Moscow. Soon after Katya enters into a dialogue with the dictator Enver Hoxha at an art exhibition, her husband is arrested on trumped-up charges.
Director:
Yuriy Arabov
Writers:
Yuriy Arabov, Ismail Kadare.
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Besmir Bitraku as |
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Polina Grishina as |
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Loredana Gjeci as |
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Muzafer Zifla as |
| Camera | Arunas Baraznauskas | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Yuriy Arabov | Director |
| Production | Ella Arkhangelskaya | Producer |
| Production | Andrey Savelev | Producer |
| Production | Loreta Mokini | Producer |
| Writing | Yuriy Arabov | Screenplay |
| Writing | Ismail Kadare | Screenplay |
| Production | Olga Yuntunen | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Gavriil Biryulin | Sound Editor |
| Production | Dritan Huqi | Executive Producer |
| Production | Mariya Anipchenko | Co-Producer |
| Art | Valery Arkhipov | Art Direction |
| Art | Luan Shkodra | Art Direction |
| Art | Aleksandr Sokurov | Art Direction |
| Editing | Hervé Schneid | Editor |