El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia

El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia 2023 Directed by Ivan Ramljak El Shatt - nacrt za utopiju

A Blueprint for Utopia

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.

Country Croatia

Production Countries Croatia , Serbia

Language Croatian

Spoken Languages Arabic , Croatian

Gnere Documentary

Production Companies Kino Klub Split , Horopter Film Production , Kompot

Release Date 22 June 2023

96 mins