TIRANA, July 1 – Polish actress Anna Nehrebecka-Byczewska has been decorated with “Naim Frasheri” presidential order for her outstanding performance in the “Kolonel Bunker” Albanian movie.
The veteran Polish actress starred as Anna, the wife of an Albanian communist officer, in Kolonel Bunker, a 1998 Albanian, French and Polish historical film directed by Albania’s Kujtim Çashku.
“This in fact was the story of foreign women of the Socialist camp who married Albanian men and suddenly found themselves in the struggle between two countries of the communist bloc. With her excellent performance in Albania, she managed to unveil all suffering by Albanian and foreign women who were humiliated and tortured during the communist regime,” said President Bujar Nishani, awarding the Polish actress the order named after Albania’s greatest poet.
Anna Nehrebecka-Byczewska, 67, has starred in movies produced in Poland, France and Hungary.
The “Kolonel Bunker” film is about Colonel Muro Neto, the man late dictator Enver Hoxha charged with constructing the bunkers throughout the country which ostensibly protected Albania from its enemies both without and within. He became known as “Kolonel Bunker.”
Enver Hoxha ruled Albania with an iron fist for nearly 40 years and for a long time Albania was the only Maoist regime and by far the most isolationist society in Europe – politically, psychologically and physically.
The movie was screened at the Marubi film school in Tirana on Monday June 29 at 19:00.
