NIGHT

STORY Pellumb PANARITI - D.O.P. Esat MUSLIU - Director
STORY

In this film a group of Christian people are described as victims of the Police of the totalitarian regime of Enver Hodza. One suffering night that group of human beings is forced to exile. Their main target is the Church of Christ. It is a search of God's shelter, search of the church of hope and salvation for ever. They go there to clean up their sins and make a lot more on their way. During this journey they are chased by the Police. Finally they reach the church. But, there they are captured by the soldiers as a flock ending in a butchery. The man is full of unrealized wishes and happiness. But, the dark power of the regime kills their spirit like a sin. Is that night a symbol of life, a night without an end and what would could be realized in only one night?

A crowd of human beings searching for salvation without a solution or lost in one night without Christ's help? - that is the point of this film.

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dopNok.jpg (4844 bytes) Pellumb PANARITI - D.O.P.

Born 10 July 1952 in Korca, Albania, Panariti graduated in Tirana University, Faculty of literature. Specialized in Cinematography as D.o.P-Course organized by ALBA FILM STUDIO in Tirana.

As D.o.P. Panariti has realized feature films of different length such: LUME DRITE, KEMISHAT ME DYLLE, TRE VETE KAPEREJNE MALIN, NJE DJALE E NJE VAJZE, PERDHUNUESIT and in 1997 NATA(THE NIGHT).

In 1990 P. Panariti received First Prize "Alexander Moisiu" as the best D.o.P. in Albania.

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Esat MUSLIU - Director

Esat Musliu is one of the leading Albanian directors of Macedonian origin. He graduated in the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, Albania. There are more than 20 documentary films in his career winner of several awards in the Albanian National Film Festivals. He have been participating in various International Film Festivals with his documentary and feature films. For his Documentary film THE DISAPPEARDS Musliu was awarded with First Prize at the Documentary World Film Festival of FIAT-IFTA in Washington, USA, 1995.

"The Apocalypses had happened, but the people had not changed…Oh God!

…The people take no care for the Apocalypses…They again will be drunk, be beaten and be killed…will steal, whore, burn and destroy. Human race is distorted, but until the child exists, the paradise earth is not only a hope…(Esat MUSLIU)

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