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Documentary about the Macedonian "wooden cannon", made of cherry tree. It was made by ethnic Macedonian revolutionaries in order to use it against the Ottoman army in 1903 during the Ilinden uprising in Krusevo. tags: Ilinden St. Saint Elias Day 1903 August 2nd Krushevo Macedonian Military History
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Macedonia and its national liberation (1941-1943) - "The impact impact of liberty" - Macedonian documentary
Macedonian documentary "Dopir na slobodata - The impact impact of liberty" about the development of the Macedonian national liberation struggle during Second World War till the establishing of an independent Macedonian state (1941-1991), scenario and text by Nikola Kalajdjiski.
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Trgovecot od Solun - Macedonian TV-movie (1985)
Macedonian TV-movie from 1985 - Directed by Dushko Naumovski
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"A Quiet Summer" (Mirno leto) - Macedonian movie (1961)
Macedonian comedy movie from 1961 - A young scholar, Zare Misevski and his wife Mira, a theatrical costume designer, are living in a rented room under pressure from the disturbances and curiosity of their neighbours. These are the circumstances in which Zare is given the key of the Ethnographic Museum in Ohrid to put it in order. For the family this means an escape a quiet oasis of peace for the three summer months which they are to spend in Ohrid.
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"Tabakerata" - Macedonian TV-Movie (1972)
A Macedonian TV-Movie from 1972 - The deceased Macedonian actor Risto Shishkov as Gotse Delchev
Macedonian movie "Black Seed" (Crno Seme) from 1971 - 1946, during the Civil War in Greece, ethnic Macedonians from Aegaen part of Macedonia, belonging to the Royal Greek Army, being accused of being communists and enemies of Royal Greece, are punished and sent to prison camp on a deserted Greek island
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Macedonian Movie "Wolf's night" (with English subtitles)
Macedonian movie ("Volča nok") from 1955 - The movie plays in a night in the mountains in that part of Macedonia which is under Bulgarian fascist occupation. The story is about a Partizan group led by the ethnic Macedonian Bozhin, that is on the run from following fascist Bulgarian troops.
Macedonian-Italian Movie from 2004-The mad Balkans and one of its numerous mad stories whose action takes place in the period of fifty years. In the era of Socialism, two cousins risk to be discovered smuggling (for small profit) goods from the capitalist West to the Socialist East. They uncover the trap too late - the one goes to prison, the other manages to flee to Italy. Half a century later - there is the transition in Macedonia, the transition in the Balkans. The story of half a century ago goes on, but the main protagonists now are the sons of the cousins, who find themselves into an absurd situation (to smuggle dead granny Zumbula from Bulgaria to Macedonia), thus crossing the nine hellish circles of the Balkan criminal underground.
"Mirage" (Iluzija) from 2004, directed and written by Svetozar Ristovski-Tortured by a tumultuous home life and school bullies, young Marko finds hope when his teacher encourages him to enter a poetry competition in Paris. But when the teacher cowers before the same bullies and eventually dashes the boy's hopes and dreams. Marko seeks guidance from another role model: a mercenary who tells him in life one must "either eat or be eaten". The film won Best Feature Film on Anchorage International Film Festival and was nominated for Tokyo Grand Prix on Tokyo International Film Festival
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Detsa Begaltsi - Refugee children from the Aegean Macedonia
A Macedonian-Canadian documentary by the Association of the Refugee Children from the Aegean Macedonia - During the Greek Civil War tens of thousands of refugee children ages four to fourteen were rounded up and evacuated to Eastern Block countries in spring of 1948 (28,000 ethnic Macedonian and 10,000 ethnic Greek children)- because fearing the monarcho-fascistic Greek soldiers and the bombardment of the mainly ethnic Macedonian villages in the North of the Greek state with napalm bombs. Later they were not allowed to return. Greece prepared carefully worded laws to include Greek (by genus only) and exclude Macedonian children from returning. Please visit for more information: www.maknews.com/html/articles/ begalci/begalci_mainpage.html- www.mymacedonia.net/aegean/ refugeechildren.htm
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Macedonian Movie "How I Killed A Saint" (Kako ubiv svetec)
Macedonian movie from 2004, directed by Teona Mitevska Strugar - Viola, after spending three years in the USA, comes back to the Republic of Macedonia and finds her country at the edge of an ethnic war, over-flooded with NATO troops, tanks and guns at every corner, grey and filthy. She finds her family in the same mess, dispersed and in bad communication. Viola's younger brother Kokan is dangerously following the revolutionary and patriotic dreams moving from small hooligan attitude to genuine terrorist ambitions. She is struggling to come closer to her alienated brothers, but she finds it hard to discover the secret that brought her back to Macedonia. A peaceful parade with relics of a saint changes the lives of Viola and Kokan.
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Macedonian Movie "Republic in flames" (Republikata vo plamen)
Macedonian movie from 1969-On the August 2nd, 1903, on the holy St Elias' Day, a rebellion was organized in Macedonia which was an answer to the long lasting slavery and oppression by the Turks to which Macedonian people had been exposed for several centuries. St. Elias' Day (Ilinden rebellion reached its culmination with the liberation of the town of Krushevo and the founding of the Krushevo Republic, which was the first republic in the Balkans in that time. In order to explain the purposes, the goals and the intentions of the Rebellion, Nikola Karev, the President of the Krushevo Republic wrote the Manifesto of the Republic. According to the progressive ideas expressed in the Manifesto, it was very much ahead of its. Immediately after the beginning of the uprising, which was about to be spread over the greater part of Macedonia, it became clear that it was organized without sufficient preparation...
In May 1876, the Razlovec Uprising was the first organised armed resistance by the Macedonian people against the Ottomans, and created the beginning of the Macedonian liberation and revolutionary struggle. After some initial successes, the rebellion was put down by strong Turkish forces. the Macedonian insurgents were taken to Solun, Seres, Skopje and other towns where they were cruelly tortured and put to death --- http://faq.macedonia.org/history/uprisings.19.20.html
A Macedonian documentary about the Metropolitan of Skopje - At the mid of the 19th century,the resistance against the Greek clergy and the struggle for their removal from leading and authoritive role in the churches and schools led Skopje to renouncing the Constantinopole Patriarchate. The propaganda of the Bulgarian exarchate, formed in 1870, grafted on the Macedonian revival efforts. However, part of the Macedonian clergy never renounced the idea of forming the Macedonian Orthodox church within the empire, by restoring the Ohrid Archbishopric (abolished by the Turks). This idea was led by Skopje exarch Metropolitan Teodosij (Theodosius) Gologanov (1846-1926). His activity was stopped in the very beginning; in 1891, he was removed from his function in Skopje and in 1892, he was expelled from the town - - - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodosius,_the_metropolitan_of_Skopje,_to_Pope_Leo_XIII
Macedonian Movie from 1972- World War 2: The Macedonian youth, whose courage is always without prejudice, fighting for the freedom of their people decide to take several actions, among which the greatest is the assassination of the Bulgarian high police officer Emanuel Machkov.
The first Macedonian Movie from 1952- Frosina is one of the many Macedonian wives whose husbands are economic emigrants abroad. Marriage does not bring them a family, only the burden of life itself. After her husband's short visits, she gives birth to children who do not live long because of the poverty into which they have been born. She gives birth to them alone, and she buries them alone. Only her last child, Klime, survives all his various illnesses and grows up to be her one joy in life. The war breaks out. A meeting with a wounded partisan, Krste, turns Klime from a passive sympathizer into an active participant in the fight against the Bulgarian occupiers. The day comes when the partisans march into the streets of the town. Among them is Klime who has come to visit his mother. After he has gone Frosina discovers blood on her hands and starts out in search of her son.
The Macedonian movie "Goce" is a Monodrama (actor Tome Vitanov) from 1993 - Goce Delcev was the most important ethnic Macedonian revolutionary, who was born 1872 in Kukus, Aegean Macedonia, today in Northern Greece and was killed on May 4th, 1903 in the village of Banica, Ser/Serrhai) who fought for a free and independant Macedonian Republic: "Macedonia has its own interests and its own politics which belong to the Macedonians. The one who works for joining of Macedonia to Bulgaria, Greece, or Serbia, can consider himself as a good Bulgarian, Greek, or Serb, but not as a good Macedonian" (Goce Delchev).
Macedonian movie ("Volča nok") from 1955 - The movie plays in a night in the mountains in that part of Macedonia which is under Bulgarian fascist occupation. The story is about a Partizan group led by the ethnic Macedonian Bozhin, that is on the run from following fascist Bulgarian troops.
Macedonian movie "The Great Water" (Golemata voda) from 2004, nominated for an Academy Award. Based on a children's book written by the Macedonian writer Zivko Cingo (1935 - 1987) in the 1970s, the movie is about the difficult transition in Macedonia after World War II.
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Macedonian-Belgian Movie "Blood vengeance" (Odmazda)
Macedonian-Belgian coproduction, 2001, directed by Jan Hintjens - The story of "Osveta/Odmazda (Blood vengeance)" is placed at the end of the 19th and at the second half of the 20th century. The locations are different and completely opposite: the rural Macedonia at one hand, and the urban environment of an industrial region in Belgium at another...
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