The Great Warrior Skanderbeg

Distributed byArtkino Pictures120 minutesCountriesSoviet Union
AlbaniaLanguageAlbanian

The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (Albanian: Luftëtari i madh i Shqipërisë Skënderbeu; Russian: Великий воин Албании Скандербег, romanized: Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg) is a 1953 Soviet-Albanian biopic directed by Sergei Yutkevich. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival where it earned the International Prize. Yutkevich also earned the Special Mention award for his direction.^[1]

The film is a biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg (1405–1468), widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades.

In 2012, for the 100th anniversary of Albanian independence, the film was remastered for high definition with new voices, music, and sound effects.^[2]

Cast

• Akaki Khorava as Gjergj Kastrioti / Skanderbeg (dubbed in Albanian by Lec Bushati)
• Nikolai Timofeyev as Italian poet
• Vladimir Solovyov as Franciscan friar
• Boris Tenin as Din
• Besa Imami as Donika Kastrioti
• Adivie Alibali as Mamica
• Naim Frashëri as Pal Muzaka
• Oleg Zhakov as Tanush Thopia
• Sergo Zakariadze as Laonikus
• Vladimir Belokurov as Đurađ Branković, Serbian King
• Sergei Kurilov as Lekë Zaharia
• Semyon Sokolovsky as Hamza Kastrioti
• Veriko Anjaparidze as Dafina (Voisava Kastrioti)
• Georgy Chernovolenko as Marash
• Alexander Vertinsky as Francesco Foscari, Doge of Venice
• Georgy Rumyantsev as Lekë Dukagjini
• Marie Logoreci as countess
• Vahram Papazian as Murad II (voiced by Yakov Belenky)
• Nodar Şaşıqoğlu as Mehmed II
• Yury Yakovlev as warrior

References

External links

• The Great Warrior Skanderbeg at IMDb