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40 years of career/ The works of Dhimitër Anagnosti, winner of many Albanian and foreign awards

2025-09-01 08:03:52Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
40 years of career/ The works of Dhimitër Anagnosti, winner of many
Dimitar Anagnosti

Renowned filmmaker Dhimitër Anagnosti passed away at the age of 89, considered one of the most important Albanian directors of the 20th century. His films are among the few that still represent artistic interest today.

Dhimitër Anagnosti was born in Vuno, Himara, on January 23, 1936. He completed primary school in his native village and comprehensive and secondary school in Vlora. From 1954 to 1960, he attended the Moscow Film Institute "VGIK", where he graduated as a cinematographer. Together with Viktor Gjika, they shot the film "Man Never Dies", an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's story, as their graduation project, which was awarded the First Prize at the World Film Schools Festival, which took place in the Netherlands in 1961.

He began working as a cameraman at the "New Albania" Film Studio in 1961, with the film "Debatik" (1961) and then with the film "Our Land" (1964). He also shot the first color documentary film "Decorative Stones". He made his first film as a director in 1966, together with Viktor Gjika, "The Commissioner of Light", and a year later, alone as a director, the film "The Silent Duel". 

In his 40-year career, he has made 14 feature films, 10 documentaries, and has won many awards in various national and international competitions. He is the author of 15 screenplays and in almost all of his films he wrote the screenplay himself. Anagnosti was a man of free thought, persistent in defending his views, with a civic courage that has often made him the target of mediocrity.

For his rare artistic qualities, as well as for his dignified works, he was honored with the title of "People's Artist" in 1987 and with the career cup at the 10th Albanian Film Festival. The year 1991 found him engaged in the democratic movement for pluralism in Albania, a motive for which he was also elected a deputy of the Democratic Party in the Albanian Parliament (1991-1996). On April 12, 1992, he was appointed Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, a post he held until December 4, 1994, when he resigned. 

Anagnosti was the creator and chairman of the Foundation for Art and Culture "Fan Noli", supporting the most active intellectuals, committed to strengthening Albanian culture in the country and in the world. In 2001, he wrote and staged at the National Theater the only play "The Night of Knocks on the Glass". While in 2005 he achieved success with his latest film "Gjoleka, the Son of Abazi", a film honored with two international awards in Italy.

Artistic works:

Gjoleka, Abazi's Son (2006)
The Return of the Dead Army (1989)
A Tale from the Past (1987)
The Stones of My House (1985)
Memories from Gjirokastra (1983)
Brothers and Friends (1982)
In Our House (1979)
The Monument (1977)
Poppies on the Walls (1976)
When the Masks Are Removed (1975)
The Mountaineer (1974)
Eternity (1974)
Motifs from a Sunday (1973)
The Mountains with Covered Veil (1971)
Prefabricated Houses (1970)
Old Wounds (1968)
Silent Duel (1967)
The Commissioner of Light (1966)
Man Never Dies (1961)


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