Razvod po Albanski (2007)

Name: Razvod po Albanski
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-08-04T11:31:37+02:00

Documentary | 66 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 66 minuten

Alternative titles: Divorce Albanian Style / Развод по албански

Country: Bulgaria

Directed by: Adela Peeva

IMDb score: 7,3 (34)

Releasedate: 1 January 2007

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Razvod po Albanski plot

In 1961, Albania severed ties with the Soviet Union, from which communist dictator Enver Hoxha had become estranged after the new Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev initiated the de-Stalinization process five years earlier. Albania's divorce from Russia's father immediately caused rifts in the countless marriages of Albanian citizens with foreign lovers. In this film, some of those involved look back at what happened at the time, in which both Hoxa's political supporters and victims have their say. Men and their foreign wives were suddenly suspicious in the eyes of the Hoxha regime and were arrested. The charges invariably read "espionage for the Soviet Union" or "propaganda against the Albanian state." The interrogation methods were not gentle and those who did not want to bow could count on long sentences as 'enemy of the people'.