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In an attempt to verify the hypothesis that her Aromanian grandfathers were photographed by the famous brothers Milton and Ianaki Manakia, the director embarks on a Balkans journey through Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Greece.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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A six minute film of the funeral of the murdered Metropolitan Emilianos of Grevena, of which all has been lost, save for 17 seconds. Emilianos was murdered on October 1st, 1911.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Newsreel of the visit of sultan Mehmed V Resad to Bitola.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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The parade of Serbian army in Macedonian town.
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A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.
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This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded weaving in one high-angle shot. For no apparent reason, the first shot made in Macedonia, in the Balkans in fact, made by these two cinematography pioneers, contains peculiar symbolics: at the moment when the grandmother Despina spins the weaving wheel, film starts rolling in our country.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Balkan actuality.
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The Manaki brothers document the hanged bodies in a town square, post-Ilinden Uprising; The disheartened mill about. The men were likely killed by Muslims loyal to the ruling Ottoman Empire in attempts to quash Macedonian support for Adrianople and greater Macedonian autonomy.
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A short prior to World War I film which captures festivities at a fair near a church in Bitola.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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The Manaki brothers document the elegant wedding of a presumably popular couple.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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A brief scene at a sheep slaughterhouse.
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Early Balkan footage.
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A group of dancing people.
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The Manaki brothers have filmed a market.
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A mass gathering of people.
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A couple of women are washing outside.
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A schoolclass in seen outside in Macedonia.
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Early Balkan footage.
