• El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia

  • Ivan Ramljak

    1h 35m - HR  

  • 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 theyear 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 film directed by Ivan Ramljak has its world premiere at Mediterranean Film Festival Split. 

  • El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia

    El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia
  • Ivan Ramljak

    1 hour 35 minute - HR  

  • 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 theyear 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 film directed by Ivan Ramljak has its world premiere at Mediterranean Film Festival Split. 

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