Besmir Bitraku

The lives and predicaments of the people living inside an Albanian castle during the Otoman Empire invasion in fifteenth century.

Albania in the 1960s, the city of Gjirokastra. Katya, a graduate of the Philology Department of Moscow State University, marries an Albanian, a young historian whom she met in Moscow. Soon after Katya enters into a dialogue with the dictator Enver Hoxha at an art exhibition, her husband is arrested on trumped-up charges.

The lives and predicaments of the people living inside an Albanian castle during the war against the Otoman Empire in fifteenth century.