Tirana Year Zero, an appeal to Albanians not to leave their homeland, snatched the main prize at Thessaloniki this year. Andrew James Horton examines how the film beat its global rivals.
The studios chronically need investment, the technical crew were trained on obsolete equipment and post-production facilities are way below international standards. Yet Albania makes award-winning films. Andrew James Horton explains how.
Kawalerowicz's reputation for creating popular films on an epic scale is currently being consolidated by the success of Quo vadis. Ray Privett talks to him about his career.
Kornblumenblau, in contrast to many other films set in a concentration camp, is not specifically interested in the Holocaust. Monika Braid probes the film's universal themes.
Sei donne per l'assassino anticipates the formal devices of later slasher films, but to Reynold Humphries its most remarkable aspect is its stance on sexual exploitation.
