Bashkim (2001)

Name: Bashkim
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-06-08T13:42:37+02:00

Documentary | 85 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 85 minuten

Country: Switzerland

Directed by: Vadim Jendreyko

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Bashkim plot

For two years, Vadim Jendreyko followed the Albanian Thai boxer Bashkim, who has been living for a few years in Winterthur, a small village in Switzerland. In Thai boxing it is allowed to hit the stomach, head and knee with bare fists or knees. At first glance, Bashkim seems to be doing well: he becomes Swiss champion and beats the European champion. Gradually, his tragic family history comes to the fore. Two cousins are shot dead during the war with Serbia, and Bashkim is arrested for beating a police officer. He ends up in prison, from where he talks about his pent-up aggression and the nostalgia for his native village in Kosovo. Colleagues of the stricken police officer also speak, but Jendreyko focuses more on the history and aftermath than on the crime itself.