A STATE FILM

FILM DI STATO

By Roland SEJKO

CINECITTÀ SPA - as SALES TV, DVD-video, VOD, Theatrical, Airline

Documentary - Completed 2025


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Giornate degli Autori 2025
Venetian Nights
    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Historical
    • Countries
    • ITALY
    • Languages
    • ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 78 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Roland SEJKO
    • Writer(s)
    • Roland SEJKO
    • Producer(s)
    • Enrico BUFALINI (CINECITTÀ SPA)
    • Synopsis
    • Starting from the end of the Second World War and for over forty years, the history of Albania was inextricably entwined with that of a single man. Enver Hoxha guided the country through ephemeral alliances and radical breaks with the status quo, driving him to adopt total isolation. A State Film shows us the forty-year-long Communist regime in Albania through material that the state produced to promote itself. Drawing entirely on often never-before-released archive footage – official propaganda films, footage from the regime’s private or reserved holdings – this film weds images and sound to portray a regime that used cinema as a tool of power. Just what do these same images tell us today?