Të paftuarit (The uninvited) is a 1985 Albanian drama film based on the novel Broken April by the award winning author Ismail Kadare.
[1] The film was directed by Kujtim Çashku and its main theme is the blood feud (Gjakmarrja) on a strong political background.
It depicts a couple on a trip in the mountainous north of the country during their honeymoon (starring Vangjush Furxhi and Rajmonda Bulku) and the last days of freedom of a 26-year-old highlander (Piro Qirjo), who has taken revenge for his brother's death, in respect of the traditional law of the region, the Kanun.
The adjutant goes on to explain that most of them were communists, among whom he shows Martin Alushi (Timo Flloko), who has translated Marx's works and is interned in the north of Albania under the supervision of a local prince.
The adjutant demands Besian as an influential writer, to go to the north and assure the local prince of the King's support and inviolability of the Kanun.
Besian is firstly reluctant to obey since he is getting married in few days, but the adjutant convinces him to spend the honeymoon there and simultaneously do the job.
Couples are shown dancing under a dim light and Siegfried's Funeral March of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung is playing in the background.
Besian Vorpsi declares that he and his wife Diana (Rajmonda Bulku) will spend their honeymoon in the northern highlands.
He explains with admiration to her that the piece of cloth is a symbol that he either has to "take blood" (revenge) or is a target to be killed.
He contemplates to his sister about this custom of revenge, calling the killing as horrible and saying that attending the funeral of his victim and the lunch after it is meaningless and unbearable.
They continue the trip in the carriage, where Besian rebukes her for taking that shot, but quickly forgets about it as they see again Gjorg walking along the way.
Mark Ukaçjerra (Reshat Arbana) who is the blood feud’s reeve, summons Gjorg and fills his name on a list.
When alone together, the prince makes Mark guilty of the diminishing income since people are giving up on the blood feud.
A geometer approaches Besian and tells him to write about the difficult life they live in, without having the right to exercise their professions and dubbing all that as a "tragicomedy".
Mark tells that he would forgive Gjorg's blood feud and spare his life if he kills a King's enemy, the interned man.
Meantime Mark Ukaçjerra meets a traditional judge of Kanun, asking him a false judgement, but he denies.
After coming back to Albania he had made a study to eradicate malaria, but was treated as a madman for his requests and sent to the north.
When the group leaves, a boy reads aloud one of Martin's papers "The King is disarming the people and is selling the country to the foreigners".
Sometime after the shot, Besian and Diana's carriage happen to drive close to him and they stop in silence to see his dead body.
On the late afternoon they stop at a government office to call the Royal court in Tirana but nobody replies.
After the carriage leaves, he takes off the uniform and ties a reddish scarf around the neck, a symbol of the Partisans’ Resistance.
Rajmonda Bulku and Vangjush Furxhi were awarded the Medal of the Festival for their leading roles as Diana and Besian Vorpsi respectively.
Notable is the fact that the movie's cinematography and visual stylization was influenced by the Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó.