Your grandpa hid a Jew, an Italian, AND a partisan from a Nazi—and they all became drinking buddies?
Dear Enemy tells the true story of the director’s grandfather who became friends with a German officer during the WWII German occupation of Albania while hiding a partisan, an Italian soldier and a Jewish watchmaker in his cellar.
Direction
Xhuvani turns family lore into wry, humane farce
Writing
Four enemies in a cellar: no heroes, no villains, just survival
Director
Gjergj Xhuvani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Gjergj Xhuvani cast his own wife Luiza as Vefi and shot in his grandfather's actual house.
The film reflects Albania's complex WWII legacy—Italians, Germans, and partisans all occupied, yet the country also famously protected Jews.
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