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Stories Set in North Macedonia
North Macedonia is a small, mountainous Balkan country of lakes and bazaars. It films quietly and wins loudly: monasteries, old quarters, mountain villages. Honeyland kept the hives; Time of the Gypsies played Skopje. Open North Macedonia on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open North Macedonia on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in North Macedonia
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Browse 14 books and 27 movies set in North Macedonia.

From Russia with Love
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the…

Underground
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties tragedies love and hate.

Honeyland
When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey but leave half to the bees) the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.

Time of the Gypsies
In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia Perhan an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves.

Murder on the Orient Express
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in…

When Father Was Away on Business
Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing but also very dangerous years for many hard-core Yugoslav communists. A careless remark about the newspaper cartoon is enough for Mesha to…

Force 10 from Navarone
World War II 1943. Mallory and Miller the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
In Stip a small town in Macedonia every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. This time…

Once Brothers
Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac were two friends who grew up together sharing the common bond of basketball. Together they lifted the Yugoslavian National team to unimaginable heights. After conquering Europe they both…

Balkan Spy
Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.
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