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El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia

"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.

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  • Bojan Brajčić

    Bojan Brajčić

    Living Newspaper Member

  • Lidija Florijan

    Lidija Florijan

    Living Newspaper Member

  • Nada Kovačević

    Nada Kovačević

    Living Newspaper Member

  • Dubravka Vrcan

    Dubravka Vrcan

    Self (voice)

  • Mira Šiljić

    Mira Šiljić

    Self (voice)

  • Ružica Poljaković

    Ružica Poljaković

    Self (voice)

  • Ante Božanić Milić

    Ante Božanić Milić

    Self (voice)

  • Kristina Alfirević

    Kristina Alfirević

    Self (voice)

  • Emil Bobanović Čolić

    Emil Bobanović Čolić

    Self (voice)

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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.

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