Grandma Despina

• 4.737 Documentary
• 1905-11-02
• 1 minutes mins

This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded weaving in one high-angle shot. For no apparent reason, the first shot made in Macedonia, in the Balkans in fact, made by these two cinematography pioneers, contains peculiar symbolics: at the moment when the grandmother Despina spins the weaving wheel, film starts rolling in our country.

Starring:

Baba Despina (Herself)

Director:

Janaki Manaki Milton Manaki

Writer:

No writer found.