Actor and character | Aunt Ollga!

The character Ollga in the two wonderful films of Kinostudio "Zonja nga stasti" and "A friend from the village", the creator of which is the great screenwriter and playwright Ruzhdi Pulaha! This character will be Ollga herself who "will find Violeta Manushi". As if Ruzhdi Pulaha had appointed it exactly for him. He will bring this role to Violeta, and along with the fame that the film will gain, Violeta and Ruzhdiu will remain permanent friends, every play he will write will have a place for Violeta as well!! R. Pulaha was a journalist at that time and covered the women's sector, he went around the districts to observe their activities. In fact, Ollga is not a created fantasy, but a real character discovered by Ruzhdi Pulaha, so he shot in a distant village where there was a woman who followed her daughter everywhere she moved. That's where he got the inspiration to write the comedy "Lady from the City", after he finished writing it he sent it to the National Theater and with a request that the role of Olga be played by Violeta Manushi. After reading it, she immediately "falls in love" with the character and day by day thinks about how to fulfill this role more precisely, "gets under the cloak of Ollga" and asks herself to do everything like her. Violeta connected so much with Ollge to the point that she talked to him in her sleep, on the street and everywhere she fixed every detail to look exactly like the written character, She imagined hundreds of women she knew herself, taking a little from each of their habits to build her the one, the only one, Aunt Ollgen. Well, when it was presented to the Artistic Council, this comedy aroused dissatisfaction and they didn't leave anything unsaid against it and they strictly forbade it to be put on stage: "Why, what will our society benefit from this type of chatter, we don't deal with these people. ..”. Thus, the masterpiece of Albanian comedy was in danger of not being staged and being lost in the archive drawers. Meanwhile, the theater of Korce Andon Mr. Cajupi had not staged a drama or comedy for a long time. The text of "The lady from the city" is presented to the director and the collective of this theater and within three weeks they work to put it on stage. For "their fate", the leader of that time, Enver Hoxha, who had come to watch the show, happened to be on vacation in Drilon. On the contrary, he liked it extremely, so the comedy had the "stamp" of the passage. Ms. Manushi will remember an episode: "Silence reigned in the spectator's hall, when a loud laugh was heard in the loggia – Hohoho!! It was Enver Hoxhe's laugh, and after that the whole hall started laughing and clapping. Until then, no one took the courage for fear that this comedy would turn into a hit object, on the contrary, he liked it extremely and this was necessary for the comedy to be launched and gain popularity. After the performance, E. Hoxha himself would congratulate the actresses and together with them, in a special way, Ruzhdi Pulahen and Violeta Manushi. Although many years have passed since the first public performance of "Lady from the City", all Albanian spectators still know every joke of this wonderful comedy, even Ms. Violeta herself no longer calls her by her real name. but "Aunt Ollga". ________________________ Published for the first time on the page "Albanian Cinema" since 2013. Taken from an interview of the unforgettable artist Ms. Violeta Manushi told BBC Shqip, a few months before she changed her life in v. 2007.