Cinema
Days of Temptation
Денови на искушение
Branko Gapo · 1965
Synopsis
After the Balkan Wars and the Great War, hundreds of Macedonians emigrated to Bulgaria, where pro-Bulgarian factions exploit them for political ends and have freedom fighters eliminated one after another. In Sofia, one of them, Gjorče Petrov, is shot down by a young man who does not know whom he is killing. The film follows this young murderer, his unease, and the intrigues that form around him when he realises he has been used.
Context
The screenplay is by Dimitar Solev, the director and a Macedonian playwright. Janez Vrhovec plays Gjorče Petrov, Predrag Ćeramilac plays Orce, and Petar Prličko appears in the cast. Produced by Vardar Film, the film runs ninety-five minutes; it was released in Macedonia on 30 July 1965, then in Serbia on 28 December of the same year. The story concerns itself above all with the psychological state of the young murderer.
Who it is for
In Macedonian with subtitles, a film of an hour and a half. It helps to know that Gjorče Petrov is regarded as a hero of the Macedonian revolutionary movement.
Prizes and reception
The first feature-length fiction film by a documentary maker whom the press counts among the founders of Macedonian cinema.
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