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Films
found one film
with a digital version available
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Region
“South-East Europe”
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Directors
“Wason, David”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Year of production
“1991”
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films with a digital version
1
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Region
South-East Europe
1
x
Country
Albania
1
Keywords
Land Rights
1
Post-communism
1
Rural
1
Social Change
1
Directors
Wason, David
1
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Series
Disappearing World Series
1
Country of production
United Kingdom
1
x
Year of production
1991
1
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Film
The Albanians of Rrogam
1991
52
‘
Directed by
David Wason
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With the fall of the Stalinist regime in Albania, one of the poorest countries in Europe, the people of a remote mountain village, Rrogam, are faced with the dilmma of how to re-allocate the land and flocks after 40 years of collectivism. For the first time they have to make their own decisions in the face of an uncertain, changing future, and eke out an existence without the direction from above to which they have become accustomed. Rrogam is a small Catholic village more than 3,000 feel above sea level in Northern Albania. Closed to foreigners since the second world war, the Disappearing World team were the first outsiders to fully explore this area in the north. Traditional Northern Albanian society stressed honour and etiquette. Today these traditional codes have been replaced with Albanian law, effecting the Rrogamis deeply. But Northern Albanians still follow their own rules for interpersonal relations and stick to traditional behaviour when it does not conflict with new Albanian law.
South-East Europe
Post-communism
Social Change
Land Rights
Rural