Albania in the 1960s, the city of Gjirokastra. Katya, a graduate of the Philology Department of Moscow State University, marries an Albanian, a young historian whom she met in Moscow. Soon after Katya enters into a dialogue with the dictator Enver Hoxha at an art exhibition, her husband is arrested on trumped-up charges.
Crew
Yuriy Arabov
Director, Screenplay
Ismail Kadare
Screenplay
Hervé Schneid
Editor
Arunas Baraznauskas
Director of Photography
Dritan Huqi
Executive Producer
Olga Yuntunen
Executive Producer
Ella Arkhangelskaya
Producer
Andrey Savelev
Producer
Loreta Mokini
Producer
Mariya Anipchenko
Co-Producer
Gavriil Biryulin
Sound Editor
Valery Arkhipov
Art Direction
Luan Shkodra
Art Direction
Aleksandr Sokurov
Art Direction
