The Great Warrior Skanderbeg
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The Great Warrior Skanderbeg is a 1953 Soviet-Albanian biopic directed by Sergei Yutkevich. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival where it earned the International Prize. Yutkevich also ea
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Skanderbeg
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Gjergj Kastrioti was an Albanian nobleman and military leader who led the League of Lezhë in the Ottoman-Albanian Wars until his death. Skanderbeg is considered to be a major figure of medieval Albani
The Great Warrior Skanderbeg
…Film Festival where it earned the International Prize. Yutkevich also earned the Special Mention award for his direction. The film is a biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg (1405–1468), widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades. In…
Skanderbeg and other students receiving military education in the Enderun School
Skanderbeg dueling a Tatar at the Ottoman court, some time before 1439
Skanderbeg's return to Krujë, 1444 (woodcut by Jost Amman)
A woodcut of the battle of Varna in 1444