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Macedonian documentary movie from 1957, Vardar Film Production, original title: "Srednovekovni freski vo Makedonija" The film describes the frescos' wealth and values of the masterpieces in several churches and monasteries in Macedonia

Macedonian documentary movie from 1958, Vardar Film Production, original title: "Ohridsko Ezero" Natural beauties of Ohrid Lake, the old town and the bazar in Ohrid with the old architecture and archeology escavations.

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

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.

The film describes the Macedonian wedding customs during the religious holiday St. Peter's Day (Petrovden) in the Macedonian village of Galichnik and its surroundings. One can see the preparations for the wedding, as well as all the customs till the young couple's first wedding night. Director: Aco Petrovski

Macedonian Movie "Kako losh son" from 2002, directed by Antonio Mitrikeski

Macedonian movie "Ritam i Zvuk" from 1955 In the superb Macedonian countryside filmed in colour, men and women plant rice, harvest with peace and joy. A vibrant ode to nature rings out. The commentary emphatically praises the simple joys of a life punctuated by the seasons and dances passed down through the history of the Macedonian people. Each traditional dance is performed with beauty and precision. The clarinet, mandolin and violin lead the women's farandoles and the men's circle dances.

Several years during and after the brotherly war against the monarchy-fascist Greek government, both Macedonian and Greek people were bleeding. 1949, after the defeat of the Democratic Army of Greece (DAG), whose operations took place mostly in the northern part of the country (Aegean Macedonia), a great many the members of the DAG as well as the innocent inhabitants experienced the destiny of political exile.

"Goodbye 20th Century!" unfolds during three periods of time - it begins in post-apocalyptic 2019, continues 100 years earlier, and ends on December 31st, 1999, the last night of our time... It is 2019, after global destruction and descent into savagery. The immortal Kuzman, overburdened by the sins of incestuous love, tries to discover his destiny in order to learn how to die. As he enters the whirling cycles of time, we discover the blasphemy of our century - and how it is to close its' circle...

The Macedonian shepherd dog Sharplaninec (from his origin "Shar Planina", the "Shar" mountains in Macedonia) has a calm temper, it is robust and typically loyal to its master, incorruptible, fearless, disciplined, fleetfooted, bulky and adaptable. Its love for children is enormous.

Traditional Macedonian Wedding in the village of Galichnik Each year the village of Galicnik hosts a traditional Macedonian wedding in the beginning of July which will hold only on St. Peter's Day. This traditional wedding is a remainder of the past. When Galicnik had 1600 people living in 800 houses. The village of Galicnik which extends on the falls of Mount Bistra is found 110 km away from the capital city of Macedonia. The sound of drums and trumpets echoes through Mount Bistra and the valley of the river Radika.

Kiril Peychinovich (1770-1865) was a Macedonian cleric, writer and enlightener, together with Joakim Krchkovski (1750-1820) they belong to the first generation of writers of the modern Macedonian literatury

Macedonian Immigration to Canada At the turn of the 19th century, one of the largest groups of non-British settlers to arrive in Canada were villagers from the Balkan mountains, then part of the Turkish Empire. These early residents (and their descendants) call themselves Macedonians. They speak Macedonian, and have their own social and economic institutions including churches, fraternal and self-help organizations, and community-based enterprise, mainly in Metropolitan Toronto and the southern Ontario region. Migration and Settlement The majority of Macedonians who migrated to Canada arrived in the aftermath of the Illinden Uprising of 1903 - a heroic but unsuccessful attempt by Macedonians to end Ottoman domination. www.macedonianhistory.ca

After the defeat of the communists in the civil war, communists, members and supporters of the KKE were persecuted and sent into labor camps, while their children were designated as "orphans" and sent to church schools for "re-education." Although some who fled into Albania and neighboring areas were eventually allowed to return to Greece, the ethnic Macedonians (both guerillas and civilians) in Greece who were forced to flee their birthplaces to avoid the repression of the Greek government are still being denied re-entry into Greece to this day despite the fact that they are legally Greek citizens. These restrictions effectively culminate an extensive campaign of ethnic assimilation/hellenization. The ethnic Macedonians who fled Greece during the civil war period are the last ethnic-political refugees of the era, having withstood a period of exile spanning over half a century.

July 1994: A militant and dangerous nationalism is sweeping Greece. Radical Greeks want their country to take back land that has been independent for centuries. Those who urge restraint are branded traitors. A Greek academic, A. Karakasidou is threatened with death by rape for daring to acknowledge the state of Macedonia. The neo-fascist newspaper "Stohos" details graphic tortures to punish her for speaking out. Relations with Albania worsen as the Greek orthodox church stirs up a movement to merge southern Albania with Greece. The prominent Greek author, Nicos Dimou warns that Greek insecurity could bring war and turmoil.

Macedonian movie from 1986, directed by Stole Popov

The Macedonian Comedy "Chorbadzhi Teodos" performed by the Macedonian national theatre in Skopje, TV-record from 1987. The play was written by Vasil Iljoski (1902-1995). He was an important figure in the Macedonian literature and especially in Macedonian drama between the two World Wars.

Macedonian TV-movie "Ezerskata zemja na Nikola K." from 2006, directed by Goran Trenčovski During the last few years Lake Doyran has been threatened by ecological disaster - the water level is rapidly falling, with potentially disastrous results on the fishing industry of Doyran and the ecology of the lake.

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.

Macedonian TV-movie from 1985 - Directed by Dushko Naumovski

A Macedonian TV-Movie from 1972 - The deceased Macedonian actor Risto Shishkov as Gotse Delchev

Macedonian movie from 1954 - Ohrid is a city on the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid in the Republic of Macedonia. Ohrid is notable for having once had 365 churches, one for each day of the year, and is referred to as the Macedonian Jerusalem. The city is rich in picturesque houses and monuments, and tourism is predominant. In 1980, town Ohrid and Lake Ohrid were accepted as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

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

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 Traditional Folk Song performed by the ethnic Macedonian folk singer Nikola Badev (1918-1976)

The Macedonian folk singer Violeta Tomovska performing an old and famous Macedonian traditional folk song "Oj devojche belo i crveno" - O girl (in) white and red She performed together with the Macedonian folk singer Kiril Mančevski the very famous song "Makedonsko Devojche" 1964 which was composed by the legendary Macedonian singer Jonce Hristovski.

Macedonian Traditional Folk Song

The Macedonian folk singer Vanja Lazarova performs a Macedonian Traditional Love Song "Što da pravam, što da činam" (What I shall do, what I am of worth)

Petre Vasilev "Pece" Atanasovski was born on October 25, 1927, in the village of Dolneni (near Prilep), Macedonia, the son of Vasile Atanasov Todorovski. In 1950, Pece joined the then-forming state dance ensemble "Tanec" as well. He traveled throughout the world with the group, including a trip to the United States, and remained with the ensemble until 1959. Pece, who died in 1996, is survived by his wife Cena and two daughters, Vesna and Suzana.

Macedonian Traditional Folk Song performed by the ethnic Macedonian folk singer Borce Krstevski

Macedonian Traditional Folk Song performed by the legendary ethnic Macedonian folk singer Vaska Ilieva Vaska Ilieva (born February 21 , 1923 , died May 4 , 2001) was a leading Macedonian folk singer. Since the early 1950s, she was referred to as the "Queen" of Macedonian traditional song. Ilieva was awarded various honours from many European countries and toured America, Europe and Australia. Her repertoire of over 800 songs earned her a reputation as one of the most versatile and popular Macedonian female artists. Since the mid-1980s, Ilieva focused on interpreting patriotic songs, reflecting popular opinion and preceding the independence of the Republic of Macedonia.

Macedonian Traditional Folk Song performed by the Macedonian duet Pavlovski

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

The legendary ethnic Macedonian folk singer Jonce Hristovski (1933-2000) performed songs like "Ako Umram Il Zaginam", "Zhivote moj", "Svirete mi calgii", "Edno ime imame" and many more. He was texter and composer of many Macedonian folk songs for example "Makedonsko Devojce" (1964)

Macedonian Traditional Folk Song

The Ensemble of folklore dances and songs of Macedonia "TANEC" was founded by the point out of the Government of the people's Republic of Macedonia in 1949, as a need of the Macedonian culture, having it as an aim to collect and cherish the Macedonian folklore treasure; the dance, the song, the instruments, the rich original costumes and to present it in the country and out of her through concerts, festivals and other performances in the cultural field.

Macedonian Traditional Folk Song - arrangement: Angel Manchevski

Macedonian Traditional Folk Song

Macedonian Traditional Folk Song performed by the Duet Selimova - Želčevski

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

Macedonian traditional music (starogradska muzika) performed by the orchestra "Čalgii" - solists on the clarinet: A. Gelevski and Tale Ognenovski - Čalgija (Macedonian language: Чалгија) is a subgenre of the old urban traditional folk music (starogradska muzika) of the Republic of Macedonia. Čalgija is an old part of the whole Macedonian folklore art (this includes the rural folkore as well) and it should not be confused with "chalga" (a contemporary Turbofolk music style in neighbouring Serbia and Bulgaria)

The Macedonian folk singer Kiril Mančevski performing the old and famous Macedonian traditional folk song "Jano mori, Jano sevdalino" (Hey Jano, Jano my serenade ) from the Debar region in Western Macedonia. It was first recorded in the middle of the 20th century by Kiril Mancevski. Judging by the storyline, it dates back to the Ottoman rule in the Balkans. He performed together with the Macedonian folk singer Violeta Tomovska the very famous song "Makedonsko Devojche" 1964 which was composed by the legendary Macedonian singer Jonche Hristovski.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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 from 1952 - Director: Trajche Popov- Music performed by the Simphony Orchestra of Macedonian- Philharmonic Orchestra- The film is a kind of a film poem according to the poem of the Macedonian poet Kocho Ratsin (Kosta Solev Racin). Through a film panorama of the people's life in the past, the film expresses his poetical way and style - Koco Solev Ratcin is the most revered poet and is the founder of Macedonia's modern poetry. Born in Veles in 1908 to a poor family, Ratcin was encouraged by his parents to study art and literature His father Apostol was a poor potter who taught Ratcin the pottery trade.