Charles Dickens’ stories were among the fewest opportunities for Albanians to get acquainted with the British art during dictatorship, says Kujtim Cashku, the director of the Marubi film school
TIRANA, Feb. 7 – Albania joined world celebrations to mark the 200th birthday of renowned British writer Charles Dickens with a series of movies, open lectures, theatrical performances.
The Balkan country became one of the countries worldwide which participating in the Dickens film programme-the largest retrospective ever staged of films based on Charles Dickens novels.
Organized by the British Council in Albania, the UK’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations, events commemorating the writer opened on Tuesday, Sept. 7 with the screening of the David Copperfield movie at the Marubi Film and Multimedia School.
Kujtim Cashku, the Academy’s director, said Charles Dickens’ stories were among the fewest opportunities to get acquainted with the British art during dictatorship.
British writer and critic Ian Haydn Smith was the special guest of event, acquainting the Albanian audience in detail with Dickens’ works and influence in international literature. Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby were some other movies based on Dickens’ books screened in Tirana’s cinemas this week
Dickens 2012 is an international celebration of the life and work of Charles Dickens to mark the bicentenary of his birth, which falls on 7 February 2012. Institutions and organisations from all over the world became partners of Dickens 2012 and work together to deliver a programme of events and activities to commemorate this very special anniversary.
Although a writer from the Victorian era, Dickens’s work transcends his time, language and culture. He remains a massive contemporary influence throughout the world and his writings continue to inspire film, TV, art, literature, artists and academia. Dickens 2012 sees a rich and diverse programme of events taking place in the run up and throughout the whole of 2012.
