STORY
The film INCONTINUO is dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of the exodus of children from
the Aegean Part of Macedonia, 1948-1998, and the 10th Anniversary of the 1st Gathering of
the children refugees and prepared for their 2nd Gathering this year which had its central
convention in Skopje.
Using historical facts and archival materials, this film tells the truth of the
genocide on the Macedonian people in this part of Macedonia carried out by the Greek
administration irrespective of who was heading the Greek Governments in the period from
1912 to 1949 (the fall of DAG, the Democratic Army of Greece, in which many Macedonians
fought), the division of Macedonia and the disastrous consequences of the Balkan Wars.
During the Civil War from 1946 to 1949 the children of the Aegean part of Macedonia were
exposed to the horrors of terror. In the spring of 1948, fleeing away, hungry and thirsty,
exposed to rain, winds and long walks, over 28.000 Macedonian children led here and there
by a mother refugee, exhausted, sought salvation in the Vardar part of Macedonia and
former Yugoslavia, and many of them left to the Children Refugee Acceptance Centers in the
East European Socialist Countries.
The film presents the memories of the surviving authentic once-children refugees taken
during their 1st Gathering in Skopje.
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Dragan
SALKOVSKI - Director of Photography Born in Skopje on August 13, 1938, his
professional engagement in film dates back to 1959. As cameraman he collaborated in about
ten of the feature films produced by VARDAR FILM and in about the same number of foreign
productions.
His long creative productivity has achieved its complete expression with the excellent
photography in the film THE KNOT directed by Kiril CENEVSKI, for which at the 7th Bitola
Film Camera Festival in 1985 he was awarded the "Golden Plaque" as best Director
of Photography of feature film in former Yugoslavia. He participated as cameraman in over
100 short and feature films of which more important are: |
TULGESH directed by Kole MANEV; NIKOLEC AND UGICH directed by Laki
CHEMCHEV, BORERS and FIRE BRIGADES directed by Kocho NETKOV, THE VANISHING OF SUZANA
ARSOVA and MARCO'S CASTLE directed by Boris DAMOVSKI; NEW LIFE and LIQUIDATOR by Trajche
POPOV. His long collaboration with the Director Trajche POPOV continues with the
documentary INCONTINUO. This year Dragan SALKOVSKI is elected for President of the Film
Workers of Macedonia.
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Trajche POPOV - Director Trajche
POPOV is a leading author documentarist, one of the founders of Macedonian cinematography
after the Second World War. Born in Veles on July 15, 1922, he attended High School in his
native town and than in 1942 went to joint the National Liberation Fight (NOB). Since the
days of High School he is interested in photography. Since 1945 he works
reporter-correspondent for "Film Journal" of Belgrade filming until 1948 as a
cameraman important materials in Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania. In the period
after the War, in 1947, he made his authored documentary films: WHITE FOR THE PEOPLE and
BROTHERLY ASSISTANCE. In his past career of over 50 fruitful years he has made about a
hundred documentary films with diverse dramatic content among which particularly important
are: WHITE DOWNS (1952); RACIN (1954); THE WEDDING OF THE SHAR-PLANINA DOG (1970) awarded
Golden Medal at the Belgrade March Festival; LIQUIDATOR (1983) awarded Grand Prix at the
same festival.
T. POPOV directed the feature films: MACEDONIAN BLOODY WEDDING (1967) and SENTENCE
(1977). For his work he has gained many awards and recognitions among which the Awards
"11th of October" and "13th of November".
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