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Viktor Gjika was an Albanian director, filmmaker and screenwriter. For his distinguished and remarkable contribution to the cinema, he was awarded the highest title as People's Artist in 1985. He graduated from VKIG Cinematographic Institute of Moscow in Russia.
Viktor Gjika (23 June 1937 – 3 March 2009) was an Albanian director, filmmaker and screenwriter. For his distinguished and remarkable contribution to the cinema, he was awarded the highest title as People's Artist in 1985. He graduated from VKIG Cinematographic Institute of Moscow in Russia. Together with a classmate, presenting their academic degree when graduated, they shot the short film Nobody Ever Dies, based on Ernest Hemingway's story of the same name, which was awarded the First Prize at the Worldwide Cinematographic Institutes Film Festival in the Netherlands in 1961. He created more than 15 movies and over 25 documentary films.
He was the general director of Shqipëria e Re National Film Studio in Tirana for almost 10 years in the 1980s, until 1991.
He was a member of several international film festival juries such as Giffoni Film Festival, Annecy Film Festival, and others.
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01 January 1972
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.
01 January 1977
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.
25 October 1976
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.
11 February 1978
Halit Berati, a virtuoso clarinet player, is invited by the Italians to record his music, which is to be sold along Italian records.
05 May 1972
World War II. The fascists kill a boy and invite his mother to identify the body, but she refuses.
21 March 1963
Tomori has managed to infiltrate a foreign agency and is trying to discover their secret documents, bases, and means of communication.
12 March 1968
In 1968, Horizonte Te Hapura, directed by Viktor Gjika, one of the pioneers of Albanian moviemaking, broke new ground.
01 January 1970
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.
26 December 1961
Three years after the fascist occupation, a group of children create the anti-fascist organization called "Debatik".
01 January 1982
A historical drama focusing on the days leading up to Albania's declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire in November 1912.
19 March 1985
Film set on the 8th of November 1941, the day the Albanian Communist Party was founded.
12 July 1974
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.
28 January 1985
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.
04 April 1980
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.
14 August 1996
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.
