Todi Bozo (1934 – 2018) | Producer, director of the documentary film!

Todi Bozo (1934-2018)
Producer and director of documentary film at Kinostudio “Shqiperia e Re”!

Born in Lushnje on April 27, 1934. Completed his studies at the Cinematographic Institute in Moscow “Vgik” as a film producer. Bozo started working at Kinostudio in 1959, becoming the first intellectual with professional education in the field of film economics.

Started as a co-producer in the joint Albanian-Soviet film “Fortuna” in 1959, where he also acted as an actor, albeit in an episodic role.

Later, he worked as a producer, film director in 6 feature films: “Debatik” (1961); “Special Task” (1963); “The first years” (1965); “Echo on the coast” (1966); “Triumph over death” (1967); “Old wounds” (1969);

Then, together with Vitore Celi, they shot the film “The Riflemen’s Valley” (1970), for which he also wrote the script. In 1971, Bozo was appointed as the deputy director of Kinostudio, giving a great help in the direction and organization of film production, as well as in the preparation of a whole generation of intellectuals in the field of economics, as producers.

From 1983 he worked as a director of documentary films, shooting about 25 such films until 1991. These films include: “Our Noli” (1984); “Pheasants” (1984); “Among ordinary people” (1985); “The Youngest Station” (1985); “On the railway to Shkoder – Hani i Hotit (1985); “Landscape with apples” (1985); “Martaneshi celebrates” (1987); “Pilgrimage” (1989), as well as a number of films about the figure of Enver Hoxha and other films of a political and propaganda character such as “Our songs for you Party” (1978); “Hands and hearts united” (1983); “Sunny Day” (1984); “Always victorious” (1984); “The Week of Enver” (1985); “Great joy in Myzeqe” (1985); “New Horizons” (1986); “New land and people” etc. He did not stop working in films until 2008, when he worked as an executive producer on “Colonel Bunker”; “Magic Eye”, “Provincial Chronicle” and in the movie “Time of the Comet”. Todi Bozo passed away on February 4, 2018 at the age of 84.

Published for the first time April 2020

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Albanian Cinematography in activity since 2013
Reference: Encyclopedia of Albanian Cinematography – Toena 2002 / A. Hoxha / p. 51-52

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