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Tale from the Past is set in the 1930s and tells the story of a poor village family who arrange a marriage between their grown daughter, Marigo, and the underage son of a wealthy couple. Marigo is in love with a man, but the tradition of arranged marriages forces her to follow through with the absurd ceremony and wed the boy.

For the communists, showing the backward customs of Albania before Enver Hoxha was a positive aspect of the film. But beyond that Dhimitër Anagnosti found a wealth of surreal humor in the material, as Marigo wickedly plays her new in-laws against each other in order to break up her unwanted marriage.