White Dawns (2/2) - Macedonian movie

Macedonian movie from 1952

Director: Trajche Popov
Music performed by the Simphony Orchestra of Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra

The film is a kind of a film poem according to the poem of the Macedonian poet Kocho Ratsin (Kosta Solev Racin). Through a film panorama of the people's life in the past, the film expresses his poetical way and style.

Koco Solev Ratcin is the most revered poet and is the founder of Macedonia's modern poetry. Born in Veles in 1908 to a poor family, Ratcin was encouraged by his parents to study art and literature His father Apostol was a poor potter who taught Ratcin the pottery trade.

In his youth, Ratcin participated in the progressive movement that propagated a Communist ideology. During this period, he wrote Antologia na bolkata (Anthology of the pain). In 1931, he published an essay on a famous German philosopher, Hegel, in the magazine "Literatura" in Croatia and was named the miracle of Veles. He was only 23 years old at the time.

His book "Beli Mugri" (White Dawns), immediately attracted the interest of the public and was considered a culmination of the poet's cry for justice as it emerged from the pain and sufferings of the Macedonian people. In May 1943, Ratcin joins to the workers party in the same time when he published his first anthology of the folk songs dedicated to liberation of Macedonia. Kosta Solev Ratcin was killed on June the 13, 1943. Today, important institutions and international manifestations carry his name. The anthology White dawns is foreseen also in the Golden Library of chosen European books which is an UNESCO initiative. Today, in the center of his native city of Veles, lie monuments in his remembrance. One such monument is a nightingale that sings with its eyes closed. Also, in honor of Ratcin, an annual international festival for poety is held here in Veles.

Филмска поема по стиховите на македонскиот поет и револуционер Кочо Рацин. Неговиот поетски пат е предаден преку филмска панорама на животот на македонскиот народ во минатото.

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