Skopje — Memories of the Civil War
The documentary records the testimony of Greek political refugees of the Greek Civil War and of fighters of the Democratic Army, alongside people who left Greece as children at the end of the 1940s.
Archive · War Reports
Skopje, 2001–2004
From the early 1990s Argyris Dinopoulos covered the neighbouring republic's secession from the Yugoslav Federation. In March 2001 he was in Tetovo, on assignment for Antenna (ANT1), during the armed clashes between Albanian insurgents and the country's security forces — in what is today North Macedonia. The dossier also carries a second, separate subject: his 2004 documentary on the Greek political refugees of the Greek Civil War, Greek history rather than an episode of the Yugoslav wars.
Tetovo — The Street Fighting
The report records Tetovo in March 2001: barricades in the streets, armed men in the Albanian quarters, and a town living between two communities under strain.
It was the dramatic culmination of a confrontation that, as he describes it, had run through the country's post-communist course since independence.
