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El Shatt - A Blueprint for Utopia

El Shatt - A Blueprint for Utopia

Croatia, Serbia 96 min.

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 seeing in recent times. But the year is 1944, and the refugees are traveling 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.

Showtime

  • Thu 03.08.2023. 21:00
  • Fri 10.11.2023. 18:00

Location

Polyvalent hall - Duke's Palace

Poljana Šime Budinića 3
23000 Zadar

Original title
El Shatt – Nacrt za utopiju
Director
Ivan Ramljak
Scenario
Ivan Ramljak
Photography
Boris Poljak
Production
Filmska Produkcija Horopter, KOMPOT, Kino Klub Split
Distribution
Kompot