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).
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.
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
1901 - In Ottoman Macedonia, the center of the American Protestant Mission in Salonica sent a group of missionaries consists of the American Miss Helen Stone after they had received permission to open a protestant course in Bansko, Pirin-Macedonia. The ethnic Macedonian leader Jane Sandanski and his men kidnap Helen Stone as means of drawing the attention of world public opinion towards the situation in Macedonia and to raise money for the armaments of new groups of freedom fighters. In the beginning, Ms Stone, being a pacifist, disapproves of the komiti but later, witnessing what the Macedonian people have to stand to survive and going through combat actions with the Turks.
1903: Wishing to draw the attention of world public opinion to the situation in Macedonia under Ottoman rule, a group of young ethnic Macedonian intellectuals, sons of wealthy merchants from Veles, who live and study in Salonica, and who are strongly influenced by Russian nihilist literature and the Geneva anarchists, decide in April 1903 to make a series of attacks on various business concerns in which foreign capital has been invested. The targets of the attacks are the French vessel "Guadalquivir", the Ottoman Bank, the Electricity plant and the G. P. O. in Salonica. The achievement of their aims means death for the activists themselves. But they give up their lives willingly for a holy cause - the freedom of Macedonia.
1900 - While in Europe, during the second half of the 19th century bourgeois revolutions take place, Macedonia is still a part of the confirmed feudal empire of Turkey. Macedonian people are exposed to the violence of the Turk's feudal landowners. Anarchy and confusion reign everywhere in the empire and the result of this is the terrorizing of the unprotected population -
The film adaptation of the play "Macedonian Bloody Wedding" which the first play was written 1900 in authentic Macedonian language by Vojdan Chernodrinski, is one of the most successful projects of "Vardar Film" production of its kind - www.struga.org/eng/vojdanchernodrinski.htm
Macedonian TV-series from 1983 -
part 4 (Disobedience)
The Ilinden uprising was an organized revolt against the Ottoman Empire prepared and carried out by the Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation IMRO. In the Macedonian town of Krushevo the insurgents proclaimed the so called Krushevo Republic under the presidency of the ethnic Macedonian school teacher Nikola Karev. It was the first Republic in the Balkans, but it lasted only 10 days
Macedonian TV-series from 1983 -
part 3 (Republic) -
The Ilinden uprising was an organized revolt against the Ottoman Empire prepared and carried out by the Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation IMRO. In the Macedonian town of Krushevo the insurgents proclaimed the so called Krushevo Republic under the presidency of the ethnic Macedonian school teacher Nikola Karev. It was the first Republic in the Balkans, but it lasted only 10 days.
Macedonian documentary movie from 1948 - A visit of the Macedonian delegation in Pirin Macedonia, now a part of Bulgaria since the partition of Macedonia in 1912/13. The footage is shot in Melnik, Bansko, Sveti Vrach, and Rozhden Monastery, showing the life of the ethnic Macedonians as recognised minority and nation in Bulgaria in 1948.
Macedonian movie from 1970 -
A biographical film on the life and the work of the famous Macedonian philologist, historian and fighter for the rights of the Macedonian people, Krste Petkov Misirkov, who spent most of his life in foreign countries, away from his home town. His most important works and achievements, including his masterpiece "Za Makedonckite Raboti" ("On the Macedonian Issues") published in Sofia in 1903 (where there were prompt burned and forbidden), are presented through photographs and facsimiles.
--- More information at http://www.misirkov.com.mk/
Macedonian TV-series from 1983 -
part 2 (Freedom or Death)
The Ilinden uprising was an organized revolt against the Ottoman Empire prepared and carried out by the Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation IMRO. In the Macedonian town of Krushevo the insurgents proclaimed the so called Krushevo Republic under the presidency of the ethnic Macedonian school teacher Nikola Karev. It was the first Republic in the Balkans, but it lasted only 10 days.
The Macedonian folk singer Aleksandar Sarievski (1922 - 2002) performing the old and famous Macedonian traditional folk song "Uči me majko, karaj me" (Teach me mother, scold me).
He was one of the most famous folk singers from the Republic of Macedonia.
His specialty used to be rendition of old Macedonian folk songs like Jovano,Jovanke, More Sokol Pie, Zajdi,Zajdi Jasno Sonce etc. He was also the first one to provide a recorded record of these songs.
Macedonian TV-series from 1983 -
part 1 (Bitterness)
The Ilinden uprising was an organized revolt against the Ottoman Empire prepared and carried out by the Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation IMRO. In the Macedonian town of Krushevo the insurgents proclaimed the so called Krushevo Republic under the presidency of the ethnic Macedonian school teacher Nikola Karev. It was the first Republic in the Balkans, but it lasted only 10 days.
The legendary ethnic Macedonian folk singer Jonche Hristovski (1933-2000) performed his songs in a special program for the Macedonian TV in the 1970's reflecting his successfully musical career.
He performed songs like "Ako Umram Il Zaginam", "Kuca Imam Na Pelister", "Edno ime imame" and many more.
He was texter and composer of many Macedonian folk songs for example "Makedonsko Devojche" (1964).
Ако умрам ил загинам - Јонче Христовски
The "Say Macedonia" Campaign started in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia on 24.03.2004, collecting the signatures on printed postcards with the sentences "DON'T YOU F.Y.R.O.M. ME- SAY MACEDONIA" , "CALL ME BY MY NAME - SAY MACEDONIA" for support to the Open Protest Letter (Declaration) that was sent to the Council of Europe Headquarters in Strasbourg.
Music from Jonce Hristovski "Edno ime imame" -
"One name we got" - and that's MACEDONIA
Republic of Macedonia Makedonija Makedonia Macedoine Macedonie Makedonien Mazedonien Don't you FYROM me