Endri Keko (1924-1989) | Documentary film director and screenwriter!

Endri Keko (1924-1989) Director, screenwriter! He was born in Boston (USA), on May 31, but returned to Albania when he was 9 years old. He took part in the National Liberation Movement and stood out for his talent in partisan theater groups. 1950-1952 attends the two-year course for documentary filmmakers in the Soviet Union. He shoots together with his teacher, the director I. Kopalin, the documentary about Albania: "Miqési e pathyeshme", 195l; "Rugé e Iavdishme", 1952; "Shqipéria", 1953 and "Lulézo, Shqipéri", 1959. "Shatérvani i Bahcisaraj" (1951) is his first film as a documentary, which was the subject of the show with the same title of the Albanian ballet troupe. He married the well-known film director for women, Xhanfize Keko*. E. Keko has a very wide creativity, which includes 68 documentary films, 35 documentary films and 38 newsreels. He can be called the founder of documentary film types by creating a cinematographic opus on Albania and Albanians. As a cinematographer of the beginnings of this type of film, he also became a promoter of different genres such as film-portage, film portrait and biographical film, pamphlet, musical and historical film, film poem, etc. In his films, the loyalty to the fact, the real historical event and the document is noticeable, bringing into focus the main events that took place in the country, described simply and in an Iconic manner, without embellishments and excessive moralizing, political and rhetorical overlays. The interweaving of the text with the realistic presentation of the film image created a sense of vertétés in the audience. One of his first and beautiful documentary films was "Light on Albania" (1958), in which such features as: clarity of ideas, drama, Irish-romantic pathos, accuracy of data, pleasant journalistic language appear as the beginnings of his individuality, which would occupy the path of consideration in other subsequent films, such as: "Spring of the Ninth", "Né prag te été", "Mountain Album", "People and Works", "VéIlezérit Tare", "Mountain Village School", etc. E. Keko is a cinematographer with Iarté's sensitivity for nature, the Irical and poetic landscape, but, on the other hand, in accordance with the topics he deals with, he insists equally on conflicts and strong contrasts, conveying to the viewer the drama of the fact, as "Me shpaté né dore", "Rguga jote shok", "Ringjallja", "Lumja ti moj Shqipéri", "Ne' partisan paths" etc. He has won many awards, among them: the Republic Award three times with the films "Light on Shqipēri", "In the flames of the revolution" and "Your river, my Shqipēri"; He won the Cup of the III Albanian Film Festival (1979) with "Lumja ti, moj Shqipéri", and with "Vallézimi i Shqipieve" (1960) he received an honorary diploma at the International Film Festival in Laipcig and a bronze medal at the International Film Festival in Paris (I962). In addition to being a director, E. Keko has also been a screenwriter of documentary films, with over 25 of them. A complementary feature of his individuality has been the help he gave in Iévrim's lamina of critical and aesthetic thought on the progress of the art of cinema, especially the documentary film, of its problematic of the growth of artistic perfection. He was also the director of the feature film "The Emperor's Bed" based on the poem of the same name by Dritéro Agollit*. he was given the title "People's Artist". It was published for the first time in May 2020 _________________ Albanian cinematography in activity since 2013 Reference: Encyclopaedia, Theater and Albanian Cinematography" – Toena 2009 / J. Papagjoni / p. 2015-2016 .

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