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El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia (2023)

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.

  • Documentary

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Bojan BrajčićBojan BrajčićLiving Newspaper Member
  • Photo of Lidija FlorijanLidija FlorijanLiving Newspaper Member
  • Photo of Nada KovačevićNada KovačevićLiving Newspaper Member
  • Photo of Dubravka VrcanDubravka VrcanSelf (voice)
  • Photo of Mira ŠiljićMira ŠiljićSelf (voice)
  • Photo of Ružica PoljakovićRužica PoljakovićSelf (voice)
  • Photo of Ante Božanić MilićAnte Božanić MilićSelf (voice)
  • Photo of Kristina AlfirevićKristina AlfirevićSelf (voice)
  • Photo of Emil Bobanović ČolićEmil Bobanović ČolićSelf (voice)
  • Photo of Ivna Marinović PoparićIvna Marinović PoparićSelf (voice)

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