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Monday, December 7, 2020

THE GREAT ALBANIAN DIRECTORS | IBRAHIM MUCAJ

 

IBRAHIM MUCAJ (1944 – 2010)

Director  / “Merited Artist”.

A big name in Albanian directing, for feature film and documentary.

Born in Vlora on December 8, 1944, where he finished General Middle School. After he graduated from the  Institute of Arts for acting in 1968 with a degree in drama. Initially he worked in Kinostudio "Shqiperia e Re" as an assistant director in the films: "I teti ne bronz" (1970) directed by Viktor Gjika, "Kur zbardhi nje dite" (1971), "Ndergjegjia" (1972), "Brazdat" (1973) by Kristaq Dhamos and "Gunat permbi tela" (1977) by Muharrem Fejzo. As independent directors are initially the documentaries: "Kenga e re" (together with M. Topallaj 1971) and "Jeta e nje permendoreje" (1974). Later he shoot "Lufta per buken"; "Drini ndryshon rruge perseri" etc.

 

Completed a postgraduate course in film directing at ILA and Kinostudio. Later his profile takes direction toward the Feature Film and together with the other director Kristaq Mitro collaborates for a long time about 25 years, creating a successful duo, compatibility of ideas, conceptions, findings and aesthetic treatments. Thus in v. 1975 both write their first film "Dimri i fundit", giving a story with heroic and dramatic bearing from the national liberation war. In this film they both showed mastery in sensitivity to the frame, contrast of the string of  women on black clothing in the white snow, the dynamics of the “mizanskena” and its poetics. 

 

 

A complement to this acting image was the soundtrack, music, silences, so much so that this film wins first prize at the 1st Albanian Feature Film Festival, 1976. Starting from this film, the two directors Mucaj-Mitro start now towards a film with a tragic emotional and epochal character such as "Toke e pergjakur" (1976), the murder of Mit and his wife's weeping, the murder of miller (mullisit) proves the strong dramatic directorial sense. In 1979 they dedicated to the warriors of the prominent captain's platoon in Albanian history Cerciz Topulli against the Ottoman hordes and the famous battle of Mashkullore. The majestic and monumental are contrasted by the directors mixed equally with simplicity, lyricism and intimacy, highlighting especially the moments of Cerciz's meeting with his mother and wife.

 

From the films with the theme of the national war,  Muca-Mitro directing stands out, the tension, the compression of the action and the drama such as. "Nusja dhe shtetrrethimi" (1978), or "ne prag te lirise" (1981), based on the novel "Para agimit" by Sh. Musaraj. The film "Njeriu i mire" (1982), is known for the sharpness of social and moral conflict, without rhetoric and political pathos, showing psychological directions, and seeing the phenomenon of careerism as a social evil that destroys man and society itself. The same film won the First Prize and the Cup of the 5th Albanian Film Festival, 1983. Almost the same theme is treated by the films "Duaje emrin tend (Love your name)" (1984) and "Apasionata" (1983). The intersection of a love line with a social and often political phenomenon reappears in the film "Telefoni i nje mengjesi (A Morning Phone)" (1978), where the drama and courage to articulate a strong critique of the corruption of the authorities give dimension to the directorial idea. The film "Nje djale dhe nje vajze (A Boy and a Girl)" (1990) is the latest in collaboration with Kristaq Mitron, after which he resumes working as a director on his own in the shooting of documentaries, without losing the former theme of orientation towards social problems, as are a series of films shot in the period 1997 - 2004, with the despair of neglected and trampled people who do not find justice. 

 


Thus we can mention the documentaries "Nje toke qe lundron (A sailing land)" (the serious event of the sinking of the ship in Otranto), "Deshperimisht (Desperately)" (call to protect the created values), "Kohet moderne (Modern times)" (the corrosive phenomenon of drugs and its consequences), " Lulja e nje nate dimri (The flowers of a winter night)" (sadness, melancholy and humanism that merge in the form of a solid structure on New Year's Eve). Together with his son, Irvin Mucaj realizes the short feature film "Nje dite e mrekullueshme "(2003 ) where the anxiety is felt to respond to the life of an emigrant in all its difficulties. Director I. Muçaj was the director of Alba Film Studios, 1995-1997, and then a lecturer at the Academy of Arts, and for some time Project Director at the National Cinematographic Center. Recently, the center approved the project of his film "Fundi iluzionit (The End of Illusion)", which would be a collaboration with his son, and which Irvine will probably now move forward alone.

Ibrahim Mucaj  was decorated with the Order "Naim Frasheri" of the first class and holds the title "Merited Artist". He passed away on January 5, 2010.


 

 

 

 

 

 

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Albanian Cinematography and Scene Art 2013-2020

 

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