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El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia

El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia

A Blueprint for Utopia

2023 · 96 min · Documentary

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.

Directed by Ivan Ramljak · Written by Ivan Ramljak

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