Divorce Albanian Style by Adela Peeva (Bulgaria, 2007, 66 min.)

A story of love and separation, Divorce Albanian Style takes place in the surreal world of 1960s communist Albania.

As told by survivors of this extraordinary period, Divorce Albanian Style reveals the experience of the thousands of families who were forcibly separated by the totalitarian regime of Enver Hoxha, the longest-serving European dictator of the twentieth century.

Those who refused to leave spent years in prisons, the last of them released in 1987.

Divorce Albanian Style tells the stories of three of these couples, and of the apparatchiks and secret police who changed their lives forever. Discussion with Adela Peeva follows screening.

MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $9.