Black Seed

Mar 11, 1971

1h 29m

★ 5.8

Overview

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

Genres

War

Drama

Production Companies

Vardar Film

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Cast

Andon Sovičanov

Darko Damevski

Hristos

Aco Jovanovski

Paris

Risto Šiškov

Maki

Pavle Vuisić

Major

Vojislav Mirić

Marko

Mite Grozdanov

Niko

Nenad Milosavljević

Vukan Dinevski

Dimitar Hristov

Nikola Kajčevski

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.

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