Melpomeni Çobani

Movies

Strings for Violin
Halla e Muços
Andon, a young violinist, is seriously studying for the admission competition at the Academy of Fine Arts. Cosmai, the father, thinks his son cannot win the competition without a bit of external help. He mobilizes all his friends and relatives so that his son can be sure to win. Muco, the chairman of the commission, is incapable of judging clearly and bored from all the interventions pours the anger on the young talented violinist.
A Long Year
Donika Sara is the director of an important enterprise. Unexpectedly her husband has an accident. She has to choose between her social life and her duty as a wife.
The Break
Pastruesja
A story about a little boy who lives in Tirana, the capital of Albania.
The Captain
Faturinoja
A misogynistic old man goes to complain about "his rights" after a woman is elected as the leader of his village's cooperative.
Estrada në ekran
A comedy from the stage troupe of Tiranë and Shkodër.
Tana
The movie is based on a Fatmir Gjata screenplay. Gjata had written a novel with the same title earlier. The events evolve in the 1950s. The main character, Tana, is a smart, outgoing and progressive young woman. She is in love with Stefan (Naim Frashëri) and they both live in an unnamed mountain village in Albania. Tana has to face the old mentality of her old grandfather and she also has to fight the jealousy of Lefter . It is a love game, while socialist progress is highlighted as is often in the socialist realism.