THE ALBANIAN
synopsis
Arben is a young Albanian mountain-dweller who occasionally crosses the border into neighbouring Greece, returning to his native village with money to help support his large family. When he finds out, however, that his secret love Etleva is expecting a baby and that her parents are demanding 10,000 EUR from him for the wedding, Arben sets off for distant Germany in search of bigger wages. Coming from a poor environment, he suddenly finds himself in the land of the affluent. But the “European dream” cherished by this illegal immigrant, now stuck in a country with no friends, experience or knowledge of the language, soon turns into a nightmare.
international title: | The Albanian |
original title: | Der Albaner |
country: | Germany, Albania |
sales agent: | Aktis Film International GmbH |
year: | 2010 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Johannes Naber |
release date: | DE 04/08/2011 |
screenplay: | Johannes Naber |
cast: | Nik Xhelilaj, Xhejlane Terbunja, Ivan Shvedoff, Amos Zaharia, Stipe Erceg |
cinematography by: | Sten Mende |
film editing: | Ben Von Grafenstein |
art director: | Ina Timmerberg |
music: | Oli Biehler |
producer: | Boris Schönfelder |
production: | Neue Schönhauser Filmproduktion GmbH, On Film Production (AL) |