On November 21 at 7pm Sofia's Lumiere cinema will show Razvod po Albanski (Divorce Albanian Style) Bulgarian documentary film by director Adela Peeva.

Divorce Albanian Style is a film about the families that were forcibly separated by the totalitarian regime of Enver Hoxha, the longest ruling dictator in the 20th century Europe.

When in 1961 Albania ceases its diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and the Eastern Block countries, Albanian men married to foreign women were forced to send away their wives and to divorce them. The official reason was espionage.

Many women and children left Albania. The ones who stayed spent many years in prison. Their only guilt was their love.

The film tells the story of 3 of these families and the regime's employees and secret service agents responsible for their suffering.

Divorce Albanian Style was nominated for the European Film Academy Documentary 2007 - Prix ARTE award. It also received the special award of the jury at Bulgaria's Zlaten Riton National Non-Fiction Film Festival.

The film is scheduled to be shown at the International Documentary Film Festival in Rotterdam 2007.

Director Adela Peeva became widely known with her 2003 documentary Chia e Tazi Pesen (Who's Song Is This?).