The ‘Rex’ cinema in Tirana BACI – Balkan Cinema Karl Kaser editor Centre for Southeast European History, University Graz Centre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Graz o:baci.1167 Arkivi Qëndror i Shtetit Fototeka Fototeka 20 Arkivi Qëndror i Shtetit, Tirana Motion Picture Industry Commercialized Entertainment Photograph 1939-1943 The picture shows the interior of the ‘Rex’ cinema in approximately 1940 seen from the side gallery. The ‘Nacional’ cinema in Tirana was Albania’s first European-style cinema, opened by Jusuf Beshir in 1926. During Italian occupation (1939–1943) it was renamed ‘Rex’, and in the subsequent communist era, ‘November 17’. Not specified Not specified unknown Albania Unknown
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