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(English title: Sako's Wedding). You are in Kadare country (if you have read the haunting novels of Albanian Nobel Prize winner Ismail Kadare): bleak mountains in the distance, wonderful landscapes. In Kadare, as here, you also find disputes about boundary stones - all that is missing from the Kadare atmosphere is that here, for all the feuds, no blood is shed. The story is set in the early 20th century, when there were still feudal beys. The one in this film lives in a stone castle whose lavish interiors contrast with the home of Sako, who has worked for him for a life-time. The bey's wife has fallen for Sako, and the bey plots his revenge. The whole film is beautifully shot, and the glimpse into a world of which most of us know little is fascinating. But, as so often these days, the subtitles are in white without the black background that I remember from earlier days, so that in scenes where the bottom of the screen has, say, a white table cloth, the subtitles are unreadable. This is particularly bad at the end of the film, when the sound track tells the story of what happened after the action we have seen on the film.