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THE MANAKIA BROTHERS. DIARY OF A LONG LOOK BACK

FRAȚII MANAKIA

By Eliza ZDRU

Documentary - Completed 2017

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- ROMANIA
- Languages
- ROMANIAN
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Eliza ZDRU
- Writer(s)
- Eliza ZDRU
- Producer(s)
- Alexandru TEODORESCU (SAGA FILM)
- Synopsis
- A quest to discover the origins of an old photograph takes a winding road in the Balkans and ends up being an introspection on the first images ever filmed in the region.
  
  A mysterious photograph of my great grandparents taken in the 1920’s somewhere in the Balkans reminds me of two Aromanian photographers, famous in the region at the time – Milton and Ianaki Manakia. Trying to verify the assumption that my great grandparents, also of Aromanian origin, were indeed photographed by the two brothers, I embark on a journey through Romania – Bulgaria – Macedonia – Greece trying to recompose the lifestory of the two people who became the very first filmmakers in the region, devoted documentarists of the most dramatic changes that reshaped the face of the Balkans in the first part of the XXth century.