Cinema
Miss Stone
Мис Стон
Žika Mitrović · 1958
Synopsis
Ottoman Macedonia, 1901. Bands of komitadjis rise against the Empire, and the religious missions compete for souls. The American Protestant mission in Salonica obtains permission to open a course in Bansko, and the missionary Helen Stone sets out with a couple of Macedonians raised in America. The revolutionary organisation sees in this a way to alert the world and to pay for weapons: Jane Sandanski's men kidnap the American woman and demand a ransom in gold, which she at first refuses to support with her signature.
Context
The film was produced by Vardar Film in Skopje and runs for ninety-seven minutes. The screenplay is the work of the novelist Gjorgji Abadžiev and the filmmaker Trajče Popov; Ilija Milčin plays Jane Sandanski, Olga Spiridonović the missionary, and Petre Prličko appears in the cast. Atanas Čuposki ranks it among the komitadji films, loosely built on the dramaturgy of the American western.
Who it is for
In Macedonian, a fiction feature film. It is worth knowing that the missionary existed and that the film starts from a real abduction.
Prizes and reception
Three Golden Arenas at Pula in 1959, for Petre Prličko, Olga Spiridonović and the set design, then diplomas of honour at Edinburgh in 1960 and at New Delhi in 1961.
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