22 Apr 1978
Concert of 1936
In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conservative.
Shqipëria - Notes from Albania
Mad dictators, trigger-happy mobs, archaic blood feuds - this pretty much sums up what Western Europeans know about Albania. But reality in this long forgotten Balkan country is much more complex and multilayered. SHQIPERIA - NOTES FROM ALBANIA offers a flow of stories from and about Albania, displaying the country in its true diversity, unspeculatively illuminating its conflicts and discovering this blank spot on the map of Europe in all its contradictions.
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