Movies: Viktor Gjika

A dramatic depiction of honor, family feuds and thousand-year-old traditions. In Albania, the tradition of avenging an injustice according to the motto "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" still lives on. This has led to people being trapped in t...

A historical drama focusing on the days leading up to Albania's declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire in November 1912....

After Mato Gruda, a man living in a remote village in the mountains of Albania, steals a cannon abandoned by the German invaders he has to decide whether to use the weapon to support the Partisan resistance or to avenge his family....

On the anniversary of the death of Commissioner Ibrahim Kovaçi, six of his war friends are accompanying his statue to his native village, where a ceremony will be held. During the road, each of them remembers moments related to the life of Ibrahim....

Tomori has managed to infiltrate a foreign agency and is trying to discover their secret documents, bases, and means of communication....

In 1968, Horizonte Te Hapura, directed by Viktor Gjika, one of the pioneers of Albanian moviemaking, broke new ground. Its subject matter was contemporary, rather than being a historical piece or an action drama set among the partisans of World War I...

Albania and neighboring Yugoslavia officially broke ties in 1948. But in 1971, the Hoxha regime was honored to welcome the ethnic Albanian actor Bekim Fehmiu (1936-2010), at the time an international star in Yugoslav theater and film. Before his trip...

World War II. The fascists kill a boy and invite his mother to identify the body, but she refuses....

Halit Berati, a virtuoso clarinet player, is invited by the Italians to record his music, which is to be sold along Italian records....

Film set on the 8th of November 1941, the day the Albanian Communist Party was founded....

Deda, an enthusiastic young worker, is trying to fix a cut telephone line during the harsh winter, so that people can wish each other a happy New Year....

After the war, the country is plagued by famine. The secretary party committee, Martin Kreka, leads a campaign to gather the grain that is sold in the black market....

Zana and Bardhyl are two students in love with each other. Through the spiritual ups and downs of this love the film reveals their dreams and desires, likes and dislikes. With these characters more or less of the same age, which have their difference...

A repatriated man is killed in a small town. No one knows who the killer is. The chief investigator takes the case himself and starts unraveling the mystery....