Sponsors:   The Assassins from Salonika (Солунските атентатори) Released: 1961 - Macedonia Duration: 103 minutes Classification: Feature / History Director: Zhivorad Mitrovic - Zhika Screenplay: Jovan Boshkovski Leading Roles: Aleksandar Gavric, Darko Damevski, Petre Prlichko, Stavo Spasovski Synopsis: Wishing to draw the attention of world public opinion to the situation in Macedonia under Ottoman rule, a group of Macedonian-socialists, sons of wealthy merchants from Veles, who live and study in Salonica, and who are strongly influenced by Russian nihilist literature and the Geneva anarchists, decide in April 1903 to make a series of attacks on various business concerns in which foreign capital has been invested. The targets of the attacks are the French vessel "Guadalquivir", the Ottoman Bank, the Electricity plant and the G. P. O. in Salonica. The achievement of their aims means death for the activists themselves. But they give up their lives willingly for a holy cause - the freedom of Macedonia. 1961 FYFF, Pula, Traditional Award of the audience "Jelen" ("A Deer") 1961 FYFF, Pula, Special Festival Diploma for art direction / Dime Shumka 1961 FYFF, Pula, Special recognition by the Jury for cherising the action genre in the domestic film / Zhika Mitrovic

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