Mao Ce Dun
Mao Ce Dun
This dark comedy takes us back to the communist
Albania of the seventies. When Hekuran,
patriarch of the Roma community in
a small town in south Albania, resolves to
name his ninth child in honour of Mao Zedong,
he doesn't reckon with the ways in
which the Communist Party as well as the
Chinese embassy will react, not to mention
the effect his decision will have on the Roma
community as a whole. Things quickly
change however as a result of the Sino-Albanian
split of 1978. Based on the novel of
Albanian author Besnik Mustafaj, also the
scriptwriter of this film.
35mm | Farbe / colour
Besnik Mustafaj
Nino Celeste
Marco Coppolecchia
Arben Bascha
Fatos Qerimaj
Fadil Hasa, Miola Sitaj, Ola Sadiku, Marko Bitraku, Vangjel Toçe, Zehrudin Dokle
Andy Deliana
B & G Film Production
Besnik Bisha
Rruga Elbasanit, Pallati Filipeu 2
00355 Tirana
Albania
Tel: +355.371 777
Fax:+355.423 432 42
besnikbisha@yahoo.it
Besnik Bisha - – born 1958 in Tirana. Both director and
producer, he worked for the state "Kinostudio"
on graduation before managing the
Alba Film Studios for a year back in 2002.
Alongside his work as a professor of film
at the Academy of Arts in Tirana he also
shoots feature films, documentaries and
television series.
MUNDI PËR TEK SKENA (1989, doc)
SINJAL DASHURIE (1989, short)
NJËRËZ NË RRYMË (1990)
ZEMRA NËNËS (1995)
BOLERO (1997)