The story of Viktor Stratoberdha (1921-1991) mirrors many of Albania’s tragedies. Stradoberdha’s humorous, buoyant style led him to be one of the country’s most promising filmmakers. But after being denounced in 1956, he was expelled from the Kinostudio and sent into internal exile. In 1967, Stratoberdha directed a local theater play in which the economic five year plan was placed in a coffin. He was then jailed for the next two decades. Urime Shokë Studentë! is one of the surviving documentaries of Viktor Stratoberdha’s all too short career.
Viktor Stradoberdha
Director
Besa: The Promise
2012
冰血长津湖
2011
Their Kingdom
1928
Railway Station
1980
Dispatches from the Front - Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro: A Bold Advance
Vichy in the Colonies
2023
The Lost Apple
1962
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
2017
The Choice - The Risks of Web Democracy
2018
Land Without Bread
1933
A Hero's Death
2001
Made in Albania
2012