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Filmmaker · Greece

Manaki Brothers

Died in 1964

Yannákis Manákis, born on 18 May 1878 in Avdella, and his brother Miltiádis, born on 9 September 1882, belonged to the Aromanian community of this village in Ottoman Macedonia, now in Greece. Photographers, they opened a studio in Monastir in 1904. A gold medal in Bucharest, in 1906, earned them the title of photographers to the King of Romania. They filmed the life and events of their region and opened a cinema in Monastir, which was destroyed by fire. Yannákis died in 1954 in Thessaloniki, a Greek citizen; Miltiádis in 1964 in Bitola, a Yugoslav citizen.

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