(May 19, 1929 – February 12, 2007) Director of Kinostudio "Alhqiperia e Re". "Deserved artist" He was born on May 19, 1929 in Dibër. After completing primary and secondary education in his hometown, in 1948 he began his studies for directing at the FAMU Academy in Prague. He returned to Albania in 1952. He first worked in the amateur theater and the People's Army Theater. In 1957, he started working as a director and screenwriter at the "New Albania" Kinostudio. At first, he worked as an assistant director in the films "Tana", "Furtuna" and "Debatiku", while in 1967 he made the first film "Ngadhnjimi mbi daratan", a film which was not well received by the censors and was banned. For 30 years, he worked at the Kinostudio "New Albania" and made many feature films and documentaries. 
In addition to this, Gëzim Erebara is also engaged in journalism, publishing many articles in the professional sphere for directing, but he has also made analysis and observations from the sphere of his professional creativity. The son of a merchant family that settled in Tirana around the 30s, due to ethnic persecution in the former Yugoslavia. He completed his higher studies at the cinematographic institute "Famu" in Prague, 1947-51. In the last year of his studies, his scholarship was cut off and he was forcibly returned to his homeland because he declared in a student meeting that "Enver Hoxha has less culture than an average Czech citizen". In 1957, he started working at the Kinostudio "New Albania", where he contributed to the first Albanian films as well as to Albanian-Soviet films. Assistant director in the first Albanian film Tana, as well as in the Albanian-Soviet co-production Furtuna in 1958 and 1959. Filmography: "Ngadhnjim mbi Dekjen", (in collaboration) 1967. The film was awarded the Republic Award and was commercialized widely in China and other communist countries where it was a huge success with over 100 million registered viewers. The film "Death Rebellion", a description of the resistance of two partisans captured and executed by the Germans during the Second World War, continues to sell today in China. The broadcast of the film was banned in Albania for two decades because Edi Luarasi, the main actress, was persecuted after the 11th RTSH Festival. 
The first independent film, "Courageous", was produced in 1970. He achieved his greatest success with the film "In the Beginning of Summer", 1975. The film "The Bride" is widely considered an experiment that was not a commercial success, but presented the world of Balkan dockyards and was critically acclaimed. In 1976, he made the film "Freedom Forest", a story from the anti-fascist resistance filmed in the forest of Divjaka, where the special feature was the placement of a horse as the main character. As he himself has shown, the fear was great because the presence of horses in an Albanian film, as well as the historical coincidence (the murder of Petri Dumas and the announcement of horse racing as a microbourgeois sport), had created a tense situation. Even the character horse in the film fell prey to the political war of the time, where he was sent from the hippodrome of the Ministry of Defense to a village in Përmet, where his crest was cut off. During filming, the horse's crest was faked. "The Forest of Freedom" is also the first widescreen color film made in Albania. Many times in TV shows, he has shown that his favorite movie was "A night without light". Made in 1981, the film presented the complex figure of Migjen. Two decades ago, in 1961, he made a documentary about the figure of Migjen, while this time, he mythologized him in Cinema. For this work, Mr. Erebara read almost illegally Nietzsche's works, foreign studies on Migen, which contradicted the official policy that presented the Nietzschean part of Migen as a transitory period of the poet's spiritual state and not as a source of important inspiration. In various conversations, he has shown that his opinion on this debate is that Migjeni was a Nietzschean. Among other films: "Girls with red ribbons", 1979 (The history of the Albanian feminist movement during the Second World War). "Green field, red field", 1984 (History of football teams of Tirana before and during the war). "One more life", 1985, with co-author Gavrosh Haxhihysen. (The story of an orphan in Tirana after the end of World War II). He has made dozens of documentaries during his long career. He has translated many literary works as well as professional subjects. Deep connoisseur of cinema aesthetics and Cinema history. For its countless items, it is considered by its friends as a "warehouse without inventory". He worked as an external lecturer for many years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, (Former high art institute). 
Among the translations, the following stand out: "The Good Soldier Švejk", (Jaroslav Haçek), translated from the Czech language. Novels and various stories by Karel Çapek as well as poems by Jaroslav Seifert, (Nobel Prize in Literature). He has translated the Key of Cinema, the Key of Painting, etc., from the French language. A large part of the translations are still in manuscript. He has translated various works from Italian literature. Foreign languages: Czech, Italian, French, Serbo-Croatian and a little Russian. Filmography Feature films Debate – (1961) Death Note – (1967) The Brave – (1970) Early Summer – (1975) Freedom Forest – (1976) Girls with Red Ribbons – (1978) The Bride – (1980) One night without light – (1981) Green field-red field – (1984) One more life – (1986) Documentary films "Migjeni" (1961), "Gjirokastra" (1962), "Vangjush Mio" (1965), "Ndre Mjeda" (1962), "They were called Arbër" (1973), etc. Translation Jaroslav Hacek: "The Good Soldier Švejk" Karel Capek: "Hordubal" Key to Cinema Key to Painting _____________________ Published for the first time on the "Albanian Cinema" Facebook page in February 2015. It was revised in the following years.
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