Macedonia submits “Liberation of Skopje” for foreign Oscars raceSeptember 28, 2016 - 15:59 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Macedonia has submitted Rade and Danilo Serbedzija's wartime story The Liberation of Skopje for the best foreign-language film category of the Oscars, The Hollywood Reporter reveals. The occupation and liberation of what is now Macedonia's capital, Skopje, during World War II is told by actors turned directors Rade Serbedzija and his son Danilo through the eyes of eight-year-old Zoran (David Todosovski). The Red Army's liberation from German and Bulgarian occupation of what was then a provincial Yugoslav city is the story of the cruelty of war, poverty and suffering in which young Zoran witnesses his Jewish friend Renata Rossman and her family being taken away to a concentration camp but also knows his Uncle Gjorgija (Rade Serbedzija) is a partisan battling the Nazis. Both Rade and Danilo appeared in the original 1980 stage version of The Liberation of Skopje by Serbian stage director Dusan Jovanovic in Zagreb, Croatia. Vanessa Redgrave later appeared in a 1995 British version at London's Riverside Studios. The film was produced by Partysans Production in Skopje, Lijeni Film in Zagreb, Art Films Production in Helsinki, and MP Film Production in Zagreb and co-produced by Film and Music Entertainment in London. Macedonia has made 14 submissions in the foreign-language Oscar category since 1994, but only the first, Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain, was nominated. Photo: MP Film Production Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan. Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |