Cinema
Frosina
Фросина
Vojislav Nanović · 1952
Synopsis
Frosina is one of those women of Macedonia whose husband leaves to earn a living abroad. Marriage brings her sorrow more than a family: her children, born in poverty, die young, and she brings them into the world as she buries them, alone. The last, Klime, survives his illnesses and becomes her only joy. Then war breaks out, and the mother lives in fear of losing this son in the fight for freedom.
Context
The film was produced by Vardar Film, a company then brand new, from a screenplay by Vlado Maleski and Meri Boškova, who plays the title role; Aco Jovanovski plays Klime, and the music is by Trajko Prokopiev. It was released in Skopje, at the Kultura cinema, in the last days of June 1952, and runs for eighty-eight minutes. Digitised in 2021 in Zagreb by Klik Film, it was shown restored in June 2022 and released on Blu-ray by the Cinematheque of North Macedonia for its seventieth anniversary.
Who it is for
In Macedonian with subtitles, a drama of an hour and a half. Best seen as the starting point of the cinema of an entire country.
Prizes and reception
The first feature-length fiction film of North Macedonia and the first film in Macedonian, restored for its seventieth anniversary.
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