TIME MACHINE
SKOPLJE ‘63
DIRECTOR: Veljko Bulajić
WORLD PREMIERE OF THE DIGITALLY RESTORED VERSION
COUNTRY: YU
YEAR/DURATION: 1964. • 84′
documentary
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Ratko Đurović, Stevan Bulajić, Jovan Boškovski, Đorđe Stardelov, Mateja Mateski
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Živorad Milić, Ljube Petkovski, Dragan Salkovski, Aleksandar Sekulović
- EDITOR: Veljko Bulajić
- SCORE: Vladimir Kraus-Rajterić
- PRODUCERS: Stipe Gurdulić, Risto Teofilovski
- PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Jadran film, Vardar film
- RESTORED BY: Croatian Film Archive of the Croatian State Archives with the support of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre. The 4K restoration was carried out at Teleking Studio in Ljubljana.
Festivals and awards
Cannes Film Festival 1964 – out-of-competition screening
Venice International Film Festival 1964 – Golden Lion (Grand Prix) and Silver Gondola
Monte Carlo Television Festival 1964 – Golden Nymph Award
Synopsis
In 1963, on the hot summer morning of July 26 at 5:17 a.m., the capital of Macedonia on the River Vardar was struck by a 20-second earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, claiming thousands of lives and leaving the city in ruins. Just three days later, Veljko Bulajić and his crew entered the heart of the devastated city and, over the following months, filmed material that would become a monumental documentary.
Trailer
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About the directors
Veljko Bulajić (1928–2024) was a Montenegrin-Croatian film director and one of the most prominent authors of Yugoslav cinema. He studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, where he was introduced to the work of Federico Fellini and Vittorio De Sica. His debut feature, Train Without a Timetable (1959), won the Golden Arena for Best Screenplay and was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Among his key works are Kozara (1962), awarded the Great Golden Arena and a Gold Medal in Moscow, and The Battle of Neretva (1969), which received an Academy Award nomination and remains one of the most ambitious and expensive productions in Yugoslav cinema history. He also directed Boom Town (1961), a film exploring the process of industrialization, and The Promised Land (1986), which addresses the politics of collectivization. He was the recipient of numerous honours, most notably the Vladimir Nazor Lifetime Achievement Award and the Golden Oktavijan Award of the Croatian Film Critics’ Society.
Screenings
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- VALLI CINEMA – TUESDAY 14.7.2026.
18:00
- VALLI CINEMA – TUESDAY 14.7.2026.
