El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia

A Blueprint for Utopia

96 mins
Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea fleeing from the war... Familiar scenes that we are used to seeing in recent times. But the year is 1944, and the refugees are travelling from Europe to Africa. After Italian capitulation,and before the arrival of German army, 28 000 Dalmatian Croats left their home villages and towns to live for two years under the tents in the middle of Egyptian desert, in a kind of a communist model village that was formed to show the Allies how the new Yugoslavia will look like when the war ends. This is a story about them.

Bojan Brajčić

Living Newspaper Member

Lidija Florijan

Living Newspaper Member

Nada Kovačević

Living Newspaper Member

Dubravka Vrcan

Self (voice)

Mira Šiljić

Self (voice)

Olga Padovan

Self (voice)

Nevena Čaklović

Costume Designer

Vladimir Živković

Sound Designer

Miloš Drndarević

Sound Editor

Boris Poljak

Cinematography

Sunčica Ana Veldić

Sound Recordist

Tibor Keser

Producer

Hrvoje Radnić

Sound Recordist

Ivan Ramljak

Director

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