The Third Half

Kosta, a member of the not very victorious Macedonian national team, falls in love with the daughter of a local Jewish businessman. Simultaneously, a new coach joins the team – a former football champion from Germany, Rudolph Spitz, who decides to tackle the difficult task: to turn the group of inexperienced players into a successful national team. Macedonia, afflicted by the Serbian occupation, follows the team's first victories with great excitement. The progressing world war, however, brings the Bulgarian army into Macedonia, and with it comes the Nazi ideology and anti-Jewish laws. The Macedonian-Czech historical drama was inspired by real events of the holocaust of the Macedonian Jews during the World War II. (Febiofest)