Movie No. 64 (2016): THE THIRD HALF
The Third Half (2012)
Director: Darko Mitrevski
Cast: Katarina Ivanovska, Sasko Kocev, Richard Sammel
In Macedonian, with English subtitles
It is World War II. Dimitry, local journalist in Macedonia, dreams of making the local football team world class. He hires Spitz, a football legend in Europe. Spitz is half-Jewish. It's only matter of time when Nazi forces finally arrives in Skopje. The star player (Kosta) of the local soccer team is pursuing the daughter (Rebecca) of a local businessman, who is Jewish.
Director: Darko Mitrevski
Cast: Katarina Ivanovska, Sasko Kocev, Richard Sammel
In Macedonian, with English subtitles
It is World War II. Dimitry, local journalist in Macedonia, dreams of making the local football team world class. He hires Spitz, a football legend in Europe. Spitz is half-Jewish. It's only matter of time when Nazi forces finally arrives in Skopje. The star player (Kosta) of the local soccer team is pursuing the daughter (Rebecca) of a local businessman, who is Jewish.
When the Bulgarian forces start to deport the Jewish into concentration camps, Rebecca elopes with Kosta and pretends to be non-Jewish to avoid deportation.
This is a Holocaust movie, which, in my opinion, is quite different from other movies of the genre. It follows the manipulations of the Nazis to sabotage the matches between the local team and the German team in a desperate move to convince themselves of their supremacy.
The love story embedded in the narrative is well-placed and beautiful. The tale of survival in it is convincing and inspiring. The technical aspects like editing and cinematography are precise and exquisite, respectively.
Rating: 4.0/4.0
Date seen: August 15, 2016
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