SMUTEK PANÍ ŠNAJDEROVÉ trishtimi I zonjËs shnAjder
THE SORROW OF MRS SCHNEIDER
Summer in Prague in the early 1960s. Three students of the famous FAMU film school – Karel (Czech), Artur (Slovakian) and Leke (Albanian) – travel to Český Šternberk, where they plan to shoot their graduation film. Transferring their unconventional lifestyle to the countryside of Bohemia, they soon meet a few extraordinary characters. The film centres on Leke, who has mixed feelings about his Albanian homeland. He falls madly in love with Mrs. Schneider, an older woman who is married to the chief of police.
The plot displays faint biographical parallels with the life of the director, who likewise studied at FAMU in the 1960s – alongside Jiři Menzel, Vera Chytilová and Jurai Jakubisko. Milkani made SMUTEK PANÍ ŠNAJDEROVÉ together with his son Eno, of whom it is the directorial debut.
35mm | Farbe / colour
Radomír Šofr, Piro Milkani
Afrim Spahiu
Tomáš Bělohradský
David Baxa
Milan Kymlička
Aňa Geislerová, Nik Xhelilaj, Bára Štěpánová, Tomáš Tőpfer, Michele Placido, Kamil Kollarik, Paolo Buglioni
Piro Milkani, Bunker Film ALB
Bunker Film SHPK
Rruga Mine Peza 2/3/20
Tirana
Albania
Tel: +355.4.222 32 09
Fax: +355.4.222 38 30
pmilkani@hotmail.com
- Piro Milkani – born 1939 in Korça, Albania. He studied cinematography at FAMU, Prague from 1955 to 1961, and for the next 30 years worked in Albania as a cameraman, director, screenwriter and actor. He was Albanian ambassador to the Czech Republic in the period 1998-2002.
Eno Milkani – born 1969 in Albania. He studied directing at the Academy of Performing Arts, Tirana, and at film school in Ebeltoft, Denmark. Co-founder of “Bunker Film” with his father Piro Milkani.
Piro Milkani
BALLË PËR BALLË (1979, Cottbus 1994)
FRAKTURA (1983)
MILITANTI (1984)
NË PRAG TË JETËS (1985)
EJA! (1987)
PRANVERA S’ERDHI VETEM (1988)
NGJYRAT E MOSHËS (1990)
Eno Milkani
ABANDONED EDEN (2002, short)
THE SAINT (2008)