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The General of the Dead Army is the most critically acclaimed novel by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Every country has at least two faces: the face of its legend and its real face. Albania is no exception. The protagonist of the film is a funeral general, a brooding highlander with a stony gaze, a moustache curled upwards and hollow cheeks, who assesses you, revealing and knocking off all your arrogance. He and the priest have come here to search for and collect the remains of their country's soldiers who died on the first day of the war. This is a novel about a merciless war and the most uncompromising friendship, a policeman behind every door, a secret behind every turn of the road...