El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia
“A Blueprint for Utopia”
2023•1h 36m•Released
Documentary
Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea fleeing from the war... Familiar scenes that we are used to seeing in recent times. But the year is 1944, and the refugees are travelling from Europe to Africa. After Italian capitulation,and before the arrival of German army, 28 000 Dalmatian Croats left their home villages and towns to live for two years under the tents in the middle of Egyptian desert, in a kind of a communist model village that was formed to show the Allies how the new Yugoslavia will look like when the war ends. This is a story about them.
Director
Ivan Ramljak
Writer
Ivan Ramljak
Languages
Arabic, Croatian
Studio
Kompot
Cast
Bojan Brajčić
Living Newspaper Member
Lidija Florijan
Living Newspaper Member
Nada Kovačević
Living Newspaper Member
Dubravka Vrcan
Self (voice)
Mira Šiljić
Self (voice)
Ružica Poljaković
Self (voice)
Ante Božanić Milić
Self (voice)
Kristina Alfirević
Self (voice)
Emil Bobanović Čolić
Self (voice)
Ivna Marinović Poparić
Self (voice)
Vesna Jakić Cestarić
Self (voice)
Olga Padovan
Self (voice)
Production
Company
Kompot
Company
Horopter Film Production
Company
Kino Klub Split
Producer
Tibor Keser
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