SKIN OF A
DOG

LËKURA E
QENIT

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SYNOPSIS

"The skin of a dog"

Two former lovers, meet again coincidentally after a long time, having seen each other the last time in Albania during the nightmarish dictatorial system. They try to get back to their impossible love with the same passion, but everything crumbles tragically. Dolora, unwanted by the system like all the foreigners living in the Albania of that time, is sent to an internment camp. Krist, a scriptwriter in the National Television, lives in the midst of nightmares under continuous surveillance. When the communism falls Kris begins to search his lost love, but Dolora has vanished. In his desperate quest, he sets out on a chaotic journey that takes him to France. In this life-long story of desire and disaster, Krist and Dolora finally find each other, but now a lot of things have changed…

GENERAL PANORAMA

CHARACTERS

KRIST TARAPI

50 years old stylish, noble, tasteful and hostage of an unfulfilled love. Writer of a series of works and many screenplays. His past holds him back with the fear that the dictatorship has engulfed in blood. A secret love at the age of 35 puts him in a dilemma with himself as a result of the problems that his family may be facing from the system. Unrealized in creativity and love, Kristi must not break the frames of the communist regime. He believes that those who dared "Lived in Dante's Inferno". Krist lives under the nightmare of surveillance and after the fall of communism, he insists on regaining the lost love of his life.

DOLORA

Very beautiful woman around 30. Extremely talented painter. Once Christie's girlfriend, with whom he accidentally reunites after many years. She is the mother of a 6-year-old girl. Her husband is in jail for agitation and propaganda. Interned in a concentration camp, she has been held hostage to an unfulfilled love. After the death of her husband and after her daughter Lori discovers her relationship with Cerberius (camp commander) she goes into depression. She ends up in psychiatry for 20 years, knowing no whereabouts.

CEBERUS

Male 50 years old, a big, brutal and proud looking man , disgusting attitude. He drinks a lot. Internment Area Operating Officer, a tool used by the system not only slaughters internees but also exploits its position by exerting psychological violence on interned women to gain sexual favors. When in Albania comes Democracy as a born reptile he manages to regain its place by eradicating and changing everything about his past.

LORI

Female about 25 years old. Lovely, delicate and at times lazy, sociable and available. Painter with a talent inherited from her mother. Free spirit as a result of the life she has made herself to handle situations. An affair from child hood to internment with a companion seems like an obligation. She can not stop even though the person with whom the affair lives is problematic, but finally finds the guts to end it, on the most important day of their lives. She lives with the guilt of missing her mother. Finding the mother's grave has become the purpose of her life.

STYLE

Because the narrative of the movie is not linear and jumps in different time periods. The movie itself will have 2 different combinations of visual narrative.

The 80s will be Classic, with realistic dark mood, with analog colors, camera will be steady or on a dolly, most of framing will be with a lot of negative perspective so that we get the idea of oppression. Scenes in exterior will have shots from behind objects so we always have the perception that our characters are under continuous surveillance. Music in this part of the movie will only be coming out of a radio, or a tv in order to have a natural feel of the period.

The post-communist period the will be characterized by camera that moves with the main character in order to give the idea of freedom in a shuttering time. The mood will be characterized by an expressive composition more colors which a palette of complementary colors, more lights but still being realistic and representing that period.