Which of us is the most « crazy » that wishes political debate?
In the era of the political spectacle, Gjergj Luca cannot but also choose a role of protagonism. Atipiku and eccentric Luca, accompanied by two of the most controversial figures of the public debate, Bled Mane and Ilir Demaliaj, follows his pilgrimage to the Political Grotesque Amphitheater in Gramsh. There, on the facades of the fish processing plant, Luca has stamped the roofs of political history, turning this industrial space into a graphite gallery, where revolutionary legends take their place. Among them, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, with their immortal slogan « Viva La Revolución », which in this context, more than a historical slogan, becomes an ironic reflection on Albanian reality.
Gjergj Luca, with his intuition for the spectacle and provocation, divides the roles into this historical and ironic parallel. With Sychi (Ilir Demaliajn) as a interlocutor, the question arises: who is Guevara and who Castro? A game of identities and symbols, an improvisation where the history of Cuban revolutionaries and the Albanian political grotesque mixes in a new narrative, where the past and the present resonate with one another.
But the story does not only speak on the walls of the Rozafa Fortress in Shkodra. In this makeshift scenery, the walls of the Albanian Rozafa – those of Labinot, Maliqi and Perrenjas – have their own story to tell. And in Gramsh, among the mural paintings, the Guevara and Castro commanders stand side by side with Fahri and Syci, making it clearer than ever that history is not only written by the winners but also by those who interpret it.
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