Director Anagnosti has old films screened

TIRANA, Jan. 13 – The Albanian Central State Film Archive (CSFA) is celebrating the 75the birth anniversary of Dhimiter Anagnosti, one of the greatest Albanian film directors, screening several of his best movies and documentaries during his 50-year career.
The CSFA’s Wednesday’s cinema has been dedicated to Anagnosti starting from January 12 when a documentary and the Plag롴롶jetra (1969) (Old Wounds) movie was screened.
The programme will continue on January 19 when Lulekuqe mbi Mure (Poppies on Walls), probably, Anagnosti’s best movie during the communist regime, will be also screened.
Anagnosti’s film review will close on January 26 with the screening of P쳲all롮ga e kaluara (1987) (Tale from the Past), a comedy based on Andon Zako Cajupi’s drama in verse, the four-act situation comedy Kat쳭b쥨jet롶je硤h쯤철(A bridegroom at fourteen).
Born in 1936 in Vlora, Dhimit철Anagnosti is probably the most important Albanian film director of the 20th century. He was a member of the Parliament of Albania in the 1990s and a Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports. For his contribution in film, he received the People’s Artist of Albania medal.
He started to work as a cineast within Kinostudio Shqip쳩a e Re in 1961, with the film, Debatik in 1961 and subsequently with the film Toka Jon련Our Land) in 1964. He is also the writer of the first Albanian color documentary, Gur촠dekorativ련Decorative stones). In 1966, Anagnosti co-directed, with Viktor Gjika, Komisari i Drit쳠(The Commissary of the Light), and a year later he directed Duel i Heshtur (Silent Duel).
Overall he has directed 14 films and 10 documentaries, and has won many national and international prizes. He is also the screenwriter of most of the films he directs. During the communist rule of Albania, however, many of his works were censored.
After leaving politics, Anagnosti created the Foundation for Art and Culture, endorsing the most active artists and contributing to the enhancement of Albanian culture and its international exposure. Among other things, this foundation has enabled the publication of 160 books.
In 2001 Anagnosti returned to his directing skills after many years of absence. For the National Theater of Albania, he directed the stage drama, “Nata e trokitjeve n롸ham”
(Night of the Knocks on the Window). In 2005 he also directed a film, Gjoleka, djali i Abazit (Father and Godfather). The film won two international prizes in Italy.