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Browse 230 movies from Vardar Film
Records one of the most important events in the history of the Macedonian people: about the Ilenden Uprising and the Krusevo Republic of 1903.
Jan 1969
Simon is a young man who has decided to make quick money by smuggling narcotics. At a meeting with his contact they are ambushed by the police. Simon runs away but loses his wallet and so supposes that his identity must now be known to the police. Kalpak, the unscrupulous man who organizes this group of smugglers insists that he and Simon to leave at once. Simon agrees to cross the border illegally. Simon's girl-friend Lena and his brother Cvetko are involved in this operation by chance. They all leave together. Lena tries to persuade Simon to give himself up to the authorities, but the arguments of Kalpak, who uses the lost wallet as a threat, are stronger. In the attempt to cross the lake in a stolen boat they are chased by the police. Kalpak gets killed, Simon is wounded and the girl Lena drops the narcotics into the lake.
Aug 1959
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.
Jul 1965
Stole Popov's Oscar-nominated Dae depicts a group of Roma celebrating St. George's Day. The documentary doesn't contain dialogue, just footage of the festivity.
Jan 1979
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.
Jan 1970
A true story about tragic love of the couple who found themselves at the different sides of the border in 1948.
Aug 1997
The story takes place in March of 1943 during transportations of Jews from Skopje. Nikola is a surgeon who was taken his working license away, and spends evening hours at the local bar where German officers, along with Bulgarian officer Simeonov, play Russian roulette with their gun pointed at prisoner's head. After suicide of one German mayor, Nikola and the prisoner escape.
Jan 1985
A depiction of the 1961 ‘Marshal Tito Cup’ football match, which was played in Belgrade between the Skopje club Vardar and Varteks from Varaždin.
Dec 1961
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.
Jun 1994
A film that talks about the development of the many agricultural branches in valley of Bogdanci, making a comparison with the situation in this part of the south of Macedonia before the irrigation system was built.
Jan 1960
The story of Macedonian soldiers who were captured by the Greek army and taken to the prison camps on Greek islands during Greek Civil War in 1946. Suspected of being communists, they are maltreated by the Greek officers running the camp
Mar 1971
A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece ended with their defeat in 1949, after many years of bloodshed. Many members of the democratic party DAG, as well as the innocent inhabitants experienced the destiny of political exile.
Feb 1981
Report on the visit of Josip Broz Tito and Polish officials Gomulka and Cyrankiewicz to Skopje in 1965. During the visit, the high-ranking guests from Poland were presented with a charter declaring them honorary citizens of Skopje. Review of the new urban solutions of the city, sketches and models.
Apr 1966
The film is a reportage of President Tito's last stay in the SR Macedonia. Special emphasis is given to his words expressed at the gala dinner in his honor, as well as his visit to Lake "Treska" and participation in the session of the Central Committee of the SKM. On the streets of Skopje, President Tito is warmly greeted by a huge number of Skopje residents.
A film-photographic collage of the city under King Marko’s Towers, its history, development and contemporary cultural and economic growth after liberation, all accompanied by the verses of Racin and Koneski.
Jan 1959
A display of the ancient way of fishing with birds, on Lake Dojran, the only place in the world where people are fishing with birds.
Jan 1961
A film that presents the method of cultivating the poppy, a plant from which, with further processing are obtained opium and numerous medicines necessary for health therapy.
Jan 1962
A young boy from Skopje is trying to find a way out of life by using the internet... The communication he wants to achieve with the outside world, via the internet, is just a reluctant excuse of the young man, who wants to hide from his disturbed senses his isolation from people, his helplessness and fear that he will never be able to establish communication with them again....
Jan 2000
A documentary about ten years of education, science and culture in the People's Republic of Macedonia.
Jan 1956
The film is a collage of photographs about the life of a boy, a printing worker, who from the earliest days becomes a member of SKOJ and KPJ and gives his life for their ideas, along with his girlfriend. At the Labor Day celebrations, the boy Kosta wore a rose in the lapel of his coat. That is why his friends started calling him "the boy with the rose".