The weavers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The weavers |
| Original title | Οι υφάντρες (I yfandres) |
| Country of production | Ottoman Empire |
| Publishing year | 1905 |
| length | 1 minute |
| Rod | |
| Director | Manaki brothers |
| production | Manaki brothers |
| camera | Manaki brothers |
The weavers (original title: Greek Οι υφάντρες i yfandres ) or grandmother at work as she spins at 114 years of age ( Giagia stin doulia, opos gnethi sta 114 chronia tis ) or grandmother Despina ( Baba Despina ) is a 60-second mute black -white - documentary , in 1905 by the film pioneers of the Balkans applicable brothers Manaki was filmed. It was created on the farm of the Manaki family's country house in the small Aromanian village of Avdella in the Ottoman province of Monastir and shows the 114-year-old grandmother Despina and other female members of the family spinning and weaving . It is often mistakenly regarded as the first film in the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire. In fact, Anglo-Saxon travel and expedition films were made on the peninsula a few years earlier, such as B. 1903/04 The War in Macedonia by C. Rider Noble.
The film was a imported from London 35mm - Urban Bioscope shot camera.
credentials
An excerpt from the film can be seen at the beginning of Theo Angelopoulos' drama Der Blick des Odysseus (1995) .
literature
- Elene Psoma: Filmland Greece - Terra incognita. Dissertation, Logos, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3832516182 , p. 23.
Web links
- Baba Despina in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- υφάντρες on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elene Psoma: Filmland Greece , 2008, p. 23.