BLACK SEED (Crno seme - Φπνξ ρεμε)
Released: 1971 - Macedonia (In Macedonian, with English subtitles)
Duration: 89 minutes
Classification: Historical Feature
Director: Kiril Cenevski
Screenplay: Kiril Cenevski, Tashko Georgievski
Producer: Blagoja Angelovski
Leading Roles: Darko Damevski, Mite Grozdanov, Aco Jovanovski, Voja Miric, Risto Shishkov, Pavle Vuisic
Content: In 1946, during the Civil War in Greece, Macedonians from the part of Macedonia, belonging to the Royal Greek Army
were being accused of being Communists and enemies of Royal Greece. They are punished and sent to a prison camp on a deserted island.
Taking into consideration their own convictions and their ethnic origin, some of them succeed in surmounting all difficulties and were able
to keep their own dignity. But some fail and instead of the expected salvation, they experience a complete moral destruction. The central
characters are Andon Sovichanov, Paris and Hristos. Although each of them represents an individual complexity of a person, through their
sufferings they indicate the various dimensions of the human resistance. The Golgotha starts disarming the Macedonians of the Aegean part of
Macedonia and deporting them. At first they are sent to the military prison, where they are interrogated, then loaded on a ship and under
terrible circumstances sent to a deserted island. They are punished for any sort of resistance or disobedience. On the Day of Independence
the prisoners have to sing of independence. They refuse, so a rebellion follows which ends unsuccessfully.
Director: Kiril Cenevski
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