Cinema
Republic in Flames
Републиката во пламен
Ljubiša Georgievski · 1969
Synopsis
Summer 1903. The Macedonians rise up against Ottoman rule and found a republic at Kruševo, the only one of its kind in the Balkans of the time. The film follows the ten or so days of fierce fighting that its defenders wage to keep it alive; we see Nikola Karev and Pitu Guli, figures of the uprising, among the insurgents and the inhabitants of Kruševo.
Context
Produced by Vardar Film, the film runs a hundred and three minutes and was shot in black and white. Jovan Boškovski wrote the screenplay with Gjorgji Abadžiev and two other authors; Dragi Kostovski plays Nikola Karev, Risto Šiškov plays Pitu Guli, and Ilija Milčin and Petre Prličko also appear. The music is by Toma Prošev, the cinematography by Branko Mihajlovski. A retrospective of its director showed it in Belgrade, at the Ethnographic Museum.
Who it is for
In Macedonian with subtitles, a historical film of over an hour and a half. It helps to know the broad outlines of the uprising of 1903.
Prizes and reception
It brings to the screen one of the events regarded as the most important in Macedonian history, and appears in retrospectives of its director.
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