
Andre starts as a teacher in a remote mountain village in Albania. His first task is to choose one of two communist slogans. He picks the shorter one, which is appreciated by his class, because they have to build the slogan on the hillside using whitewashed rocks. However, this means that the longer slogan goes to Diana, the French teacher to whom Andre is attracted. Andre gets on the wrong side of the communist party boss of the village, when he stands up for an unjustly acc... (Full plot summary below)
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Andre starts as a teacher in a remote mountain village in Albania. His first task is to choose one of two communist slogans. He picks the shorter one, which is appreciated by his class, because they have to build the slogan on the hillside using whitewashed rocks. However, this means that the longer slogan goes to Diana, the French teacher to whom Andre is attracted. Andre gets on the wrong side of the communist party boss of the village, when he stands up for an unjustly accused goat herdsman, whom he had befriended. The boss is determined to take his revenge on Andre.
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| User ReviewTanya LAny one who has lived under the communist regime will appreciate it. |
| User ReviewJens TGjergj Xhuvani's Slogans is set during Evner Hoxha's communist dictatorship in the late seventies where we follow Andre, a liberal-minded school teacher from Tirana who's been transferred to a small village, a village that are brainwashed by communist ideology and where every wrong step gets you into trouble, even an illiterate farmer doesn't get away. The children is forced into making communist slogans with rocks as letters in every slopes in the village. With slogans such as "The American Imperialism is a Paper Tiger". Slogans might be a light film, considering some might say that things was much worse during the Hoxha era. This is more of a black comedy that shows us the ridiculousness of the whole communist paranoia. I really liked the illiterate farmer, who doesn't seem to know anything of what's going on in the world, but are still a victim after his goats walks over the slogans in the hills. He's just so cute and vulnerable. It's also interesting to see how Andre is bonding with the children and how much they respect him, and the forbidden love between Andre and his colleague Diana. Overall, It's an enjoyable film with a lot of heart, but with a laughable bureaucracy. Thumbs up. |
| User ReviewWS WPithy commentary on the absurdity of the Albanian system under Enver Hoxha and legions of petty party hacks. Wry and resigned, it makes you all the happier students these days are more interested in getting baked than overthrowing the system. |
| User ReviewDaniel AI caught Slogans on SBS on night while channel surfing. Set in Communist-era Albania, it is the story of the inhabitants of a small town, two school teachers, party apparatchicks, children and an illiterate peasant goat herder. Andre, a newly arrived school teacher is tasked with writing a Communist Party slogan on the side of a hill with whitewashed rocks. He cleverly chooses the shortest slogan, leaving his love interest, a fellow teacher, to create the longer slogan with her class. Slogans is a film that explores the now well-worn theme of individuality versus conformism. Unlike other films that explore similar themes, Slogans doesn't take itself too seriously and get bogged down in self-righteous preaching. In fact, Slogans is filled with tragic dark humor, such as the incident when an illiterate goat herder unknowingly allows his goats to destroy part of on slogan. He is promptly declared an 'enemy of the people'. Another incident occurs when a young child makes a simple mistake regarding Communist ideology and an entire investigation takes place because of it. Well this is a long review for an unknown film, but the film deserves praise, especially considering Albania does not have a stellar cinematic reputation. |
| User ReviewMattias EDark political comedy reminiscent of early Kieslowski. Less absurdity and a bit more subtlety wouldn't have hurt this movie, though. |