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Birthday Celebration, or a Silent Balkan Story

Birthday Celebration, or a Silent Balkan Story

1995 · 87 min · ★ 10.0 · Documentary

The film is dedicated to the centennial of cinema and, through a pastiche of excerpts from Balkan silent films, pays tribute to a cinema that has been almost completely forgotten. Old photographs and a modern- day train trip through the Balkans highlight the coincidences, the similarities, and the affinities that link Balkan filmmakers. A film about all the things that unite the neighbouring countries of the peninsula, which, perhaps, are many more than the things that divide them.

Directed by Fotos Lambrinos · Written by Fotos Lambrinos

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