El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia

Directed by Ivan Ramljak

Written by Ivan Ramljak

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.

Cast

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Bojan Brajčić

Living Newspaper Member

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Lidija Florijan

Living Newspaper Member

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Nada Kovačević

Living Newspaper Member

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Dubravka Vrcan

Self (voice)

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Mira Šiljić

Self (voice)

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Ružica Poljaković

Self (voice)

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Ante Božanić Milić

Self (voice)

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Kristina Alfirević

Self (voice)

Emil Bobanović Čolić

Self (voice)

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Ivna Marinović Poparić

Self (voice)

Vesna Jakić Cestarić

Self (voice)

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Olga Padovan

Self (voice)