Kiro Kjortošev

Five centuries of persecution and the struggle of the Macedonian people for freedom and an independent Macedonian state in which freedom will reign equally for all, have created their own myth and tradition for themselves. The struggles, sufferings, betrayals and self-sacrifice were later translated and woven through Macedonian songs, stories, tales and plays. Starting from there, this TV movie approaches the events of that time.

Adaptation of a TV Series with 3 episodes, "Third Age", filmed in 1986. This is a movie that shows how the old people live in a city (Skopje), film about love in the "third age", with a knit of humor and lyrically transposed characters.

The Kosovo region of Yugoslavia near the Albanian border is the scene of political unrest and a modern Romeo and Juliet romance in this satirical political drama. A film director (Meto Jovanovski) gathers information for his documentary about the Serbs being forced to depart by Albanian Moslems. As the region heads towards ethnic warfare, the young Albanian woman Nadira (Sonja Jacevska) falls in love with the Serbian Miloljub (Cedo Arobabic). He is captured and castrated, and the private lives of Milobjub and Nadira become part of the director's story in his film. He must answer to the financiers and producers who believe his film was to be a comedy. The events foreshadow a long and bloody conflict between two factions, a battle that has not abated in the ten years since this film's initial release.

Macedonian TV drama.

Life and work of Saint Kliment of Ohrid, a medieval Slav saint, scholar, writer and patron saint of the Republic of Macedonia.

Early Spring 1945. Albanian criminals attack innocent Macedonians in Macedonia.

Macedonian TV drama.

Macedonian TV drama.

Each time has its own games. This is a time when children's imagination was able to create art through fantasy. The adults shared the enthusiasm as well. A time that the war severely interrupted and marked the end of one's childhood and youth.

Follows the course of three different and independent relationships. The first in which a man renews a relationship with a former girlfriend. In the second a couple suddenly decide to marry, while in the third a couple are getting a divorce.

Brothers and their sister come to their native village on their deceased father's burial. Each of them has own plan of taking particular area of property, but in the will their father left behind it is stated they can use the lot only together. They leave the village in disappointment.

Macedonian TV movie.

A Macedonian TV drama adaptation of the short story 'Love in the village' by Ivo Andric.

A young painter comes to the monastery where he's supposed to paint Virgin Mary. There he meets and falls in love with a beautiful novice named Agripina, eventually modeling his artwork by her appearance. This gets him in trouble with the church canons and Mother Superior, and he leaves.

City council of Prilep, Macedonia, decide to ruin the old part of the town and built new housings there. Unable to stop the demolition, the shoemaker Dimko and other local craftsmen throw an all-night party for the memory of the last day of bazaar.

As a project manager and a contractor of the Splendid Hotel, Draško Karovski is accused of its demolition in which two people lost their lives and great material damage was done.

After death of his wife, Stojan is proclaimed by his fellow villagers to be a living saint. They thought God will have mercy upon them, and life in their village would become better and happier. Stojan liked this at start, he got used of his nickname and listening to people's problems and sins. However, he gets fed up of this burden that is not easy to get rid of.

Macedonian TV movie.

Macedonian TV drama.

A small village in the valley, where young people traditionally go to work in overseas countries. Gligor also intended to leave several times, but changed his mind at the last moment. This time, he was determined to finally go to Canada. On his way, the love of a village woman prevented him.

Macedonian TV drama.

Youth, which courage is always without prejudice, in Skopje in time of Bulgarian occupation in WW2, desire freedom for the people, resolves to several actions, including the biggest, to assassinate the police chief Emanuel Machkov...

A Macedonian TV film.

The film takes place in a small town where the Germans are getting ready to retreat near the end of the war. But a carload of Russian prisoners get people to feed them, then the prisoners overcome their guards and escape. The town people try to save them from the Germans but do not succeed.

The first Macedonian TV drama produced by TV Skopje.

Drama of the life of a young man of today torn between his desires and the opportunities of his environment.

A day before the earthquake in Skopje, Wily Muller, a German conductor, while passing through the concert meets a young girl Jana, a student from Skopje. After several years they meet again at the "Solidarity Meetings" event, which is held in Skopje, where Wily Muller is a conductor at a concert held on that occasion. Those several days, spent together with the conductor, for Jana mean fulfillment with a kind of reminiscence of her family tragedy experienced during Skopje's earthquake, and also a wondering and search for a way of starting life again, which stopped on the day of the earthquake. Although the possibility of going with Muller is very attractive, Jana stays in Skopje. Her place is beside the young man whom she loves and belongs to, with whom she is related with true love...

In 1918, after the end of the Balkan Wars and the First World War, hundreds of Macedonians immigrated to Bulgaria. Among them there were pro-Bulgarian Macedonians who wanted to exploit the emigrants for their own political purposes. A number of decent freedom fighters were eliminated. The victim of one of the assassins in Sofia was Djorche Petrov. His assassin is a young boy who doesn't even know that he is shooting dead the man who is one of the last real fighters for the freedom of Macedonia. By discovering that he has been unknowingly involved in the pro-Bulgarian organization and has been used for an execution of this vile act, it means the death sentence for the young boy.

Вторая мировая война. Западная Македония, где среди населения преобладали албанцы, после капитуляции контролировавшей этот регион Италии на какой-то момент оказалась предоставленной самой себе. Здесь разгорелась отчаянная борьба между прокоммунистическими партизанами, сторонниками которых было преимущественно славянское население, и националистическими албанскими отрядами из движения «Балли Комбетар». В небольшой городок, где власть находилась в руках албанцев, пробираются трое партизан, чтобы готовить диверсии при приближении армии Броз Тито. На улице они натыкаются на албанский патруль, возглавляемый братом командира отряда Мустафи. В завязавшейся перестрелке тот гибнет, партизанам же удается скрыться. Двое из них находят убежище в доме зажиточного македонца Крсте, но его сосед, албанец Реджеп, из малодушия выдает беглецов. Однако тайник столь хорошо замаскирован, что Мустафи не удается его найти. Тогда он угрожает расстрелять малолетнего внука Крсте...

The tramp is hungry and the child has a rooster. In order to achieve his goal, to eat, the wanderer grabs the rooster from the child. But because of the child's grief, the tramp changes his mind and the child is with his friend again.

The first Macedonian Movie from 1952- Frosina is one of the many Macedonian wives whose husbands are economic emigrants abroad. Marriage does not bring them a family, only the burden of life itself. After her husband's short visits, she gives birth to children who do not live long because of the poverty into which they have been born. She gives birth to them alone, and she buries them alone. Only her last child, Klime, survives all his various illnesses and grows up to be her one joy in life. The war breaks out...