“Dear enemy” travels to Canada

The movie of the Albanian movie director Gjergj Xhuvani will participate in a a film festival that will be organized in Canada. The director of “Dear enemy” and the Albanian embassy in Canada has been invited to take part in a film festival on Saturday 14th of April organized by ABC. Gjergj Xhuvani said that he will not be present in the festival because of his other important activities, but he is hoping that his movie will be awarded. The Film Festival in Canada has a long tradition but Albanian movies are not always part of it, as in the other international festivals of cinematography. This is a fact that makes the participation of Xhuvani’s movie even more important. The movie has been awarded several prizes in many different competitions in Albania and abroad. The story is about the parallel lives in the same place of three characters, a partisan, an Italian, a Jewish and a nationalist. They all live in Albania, during the time where the country was in the crossroad of the war of the year 1943. The movie has won different prizes during the film festivals around the Europe. The cast of the actors, includes names of the very well known Albanian artists as Ndricim Xhepa(Haruni), Luiza Xhuvani (Vefi), Nina Petri(Gerta), Margarita Xhepa(the mother), Birce Hasko(Hoaki) and the participation of a foreign actor as Peter Lohmeyer(Franzi).