El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia

El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia (2023) is a documentary film directed by Ivan Ramljak.

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.

Cast

Bojan Brajčić

Living Newspaper Member

Lidija Florijan

Living Newspaper Member

Nada Kovačević

Living Newspaper Member

Dubravka Vrcan

Self (voice)

Mira Šiljić

Self (voice)

Ružica Poljaković

Self (voice)

Ante Božanić Milić

Self (voice)

Kristina Alfirević

Self (voice)

Emil Bobanović Čolić

Self (voice)

Ivna Marinović Poparić

Self (voice)

Vesna Jakić Cestarić

Self (voice)

Olga Padovan

Self (voice)