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AZEMI

Albania

Rrahman Fetahu Director

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    1999 in Kosovo.

    While war had already begun and was gaining the KLA were fighting in the mountains, AZEM (Rahman Fetahu) like many other young people was living in Germany with a rich girlfriend although relatively older than him... The end of his comfortably and happy life of a promising footballer disrupts a call that is made to Azem (where only at the end of the movie is understood the conversation and the fact that the missing family are killed by Serbian forces) ...

    This is the reason why AZEM voluntarily returns from Germany to the ranks of the KLA. BACI (Avni Hoti) engages in the army after his family is being kidnapped from Serb paramilitaries due to the assistance he gave to the KLA in drug supply from Pristina.

    Randomly the name of the son of Baci is AZEM and this is the reason that BACI will feel a special sympathy for our hero Azem. Most comical character of the movie is PRISTINA (Fatos Kryeziu ) a young and spoiled guy who because of love that he has for the COMMANDER’s sister , and to show his pride he goes to report to the ranks of the KLA volunteers .

    He was even a schoolmate of the commander, the fact that makes him feel the most privileged of all, even though the commander doesn’t give him a space.

    As producer balances the situation, since Baci likes and sympathizes Azem, which is not the case with Pristina whom he hates, suspects and charges him of treason and espionage. COMMANDER (SHPETIM KASTRATI) is the fourth character of the movie placed him in a difficult situation.

    One side the war with Serbs and on the other side the problems within his platoon whom he commands fairly and successfully.

    He’s the only one who commands AZEM and asks him secretly to stop paramilitaries, but this puts him in unpleasant situations with others when suspicion arises openly regarding the disappearance of the sniper... Hans (Arber Rusiti) is an Austrian NATO parachutist who parachuted exactly in the area where our heroes are and through the satellite phone sends the coordinates to the allies in order to bomb Serb targets on the field.

    Hans with his photographic camera is a witness of our heroic war, death, burial, tragic and comedic moments of our volunteers in the ranks of the KLA.

    Hans is surprised with the fact that some pray as Catholics and some as Muslims and that doesn’t make differences with each other when it comes to fight against the Serbs.

    Azem is the only one to communicate with him in German; So Hans expresses great surprise and sympathy towards a peace-loving people who are so religious tolerance among themselves... He’s also happy and surprised when KLA soldiers released two deserted Serb prisoners of war as, to the international Red Cross. As a result of NATO’s bombing, Serb paramilitaries intensify their campaign of ethnic cleansing, rape of women’s, killing civilians and massacres of innocent of civilians. The only hope of the refugees of that area remains Azem and his friends, whom in this unequal war struggle with their guerrilla tactics and with great courage and sacrifice who claims victory one after the other against a bigger and well equipped army.

    Azem, committed to protect the land and those few people who have remained, upon the order of the COMMANDER bravely manages to eliminate well known spies and paramilitaries. In one of the upcoming guerrilla actions in Pristina, after they execute a spy, Azem and Commander in civilian clothes escape away without being caught, since they were detected.

    This sealed his fate henceforth not to be returned in his hometown, but to continue to fight as sniper on the hills. Huge losses suffered precisely from our sniper Azem who kills masked paramilitaries with precision and causing confusion and panic, official Belgrade is forced to send one of their toughest officer (DIBRAN TAHIRI). After the arrival of Serbian officer and his speech full of charges against his paramilitaries, fighting intensified and due to consequently protecting the soldier nicknamed PRISHTINA or exactly the guy who accused him the most for betrayal AZEM the sniper dies.

    To be understood only at his funeral full of rain and thunder, full of sorrow and pride that this mysterious sniper has been precisely their team mate, a man named Azem... With the death of Azem, next question arises as to how to write his last name, a task which now makes PRISHTINA. Nobody remembers or knows the last name ...

    until BACI returned as the closest friend of the deceased. Baci decides that the mystic hero will be called AZEM KOSOVA as reasons for coming to war and the only love called KOSOVO... Even Hans the Austrian soldier now embodied liberation fight that KLA makes regrets the loss of Azem, since now lacks the only interlocutor and interpreter who had been in guerrilla platoon. Last name is the reason that the next event is related.

    After an offensive, some paramilitaries in the passage they see a tomb with an inscription of Kosova.

    It’s AZEM KOSOVA grave, and they decide to humiliate and undermine precisely because of last name ...

    Baci confused by the dream where he sees both AZEM’s, tired of war, upset by the loss of many, comes to visit the tomb and to find consolation, but sees the damaged grave and decides to retaliate for all... ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Some years after the war, now regulated cemeteries two delegations come to visit, but unfortunately they miss each other only for a few seconds.

    In one side of the grave a German woman with her 3 -year boy, the lady with whom Azem cohabited, implying that maybe this little blond boy lookalike Azem may have been the fruit of their love. Ironically they do not meet each other, just a few moments later the commander who is now in wheelchairs and without both legs visit the tomb, Baci an old guy with one hand only but healthy.

    PRISHTINA the only guy without disabilities along with his wife and a child, which is happened to be the sister of the Commander. As a respect for a war in which he had participated, the Austria-Hans comes to honor the graves of martyrs. Silence pain and proud reigns in front of the tomb of the sniper who looks as if to be alive in a large memorial plaque in his honor. Baci breaks the silence by asking the son of PRISHTINA about the name ...

    the small child answers AZEM, who is baptized by his father in order to honor and remember the fallen comrade in war, the answer that surprises and enjoys old Baci, bringing back the lost pride in his wrinkled face and has indicated that the blood of his two beloved AZEM’s, the son and best friend did not go in vain, but for the freedom that we all enjoy today.