The artistic world today celebrates the birth anniversary of the first Albanian filmmaker Milto Manaq. He was born in Avdela village of Chameria on 9 September 1882. Along with his brother Janaqi, he is the first Albanian and Balkan cinematic pioneers and rare masters of photographic art. With the picture “Woman from Klisura with the baby”, he won the gold medal in the International Artistic Photo Contest in 1906, whiles the documentary film “The Trolls”, shot in 1905, marked the beginning of the seventh art in the Balkans.
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11 April 1760, the representative of Albania Jakov Suma concluded the diplomatic mission in St. Petersburg
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11 April 1872, was born the poet Asdreni, Aleksandër Stavre Drenova
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11 April 1906, three societies of Albanian immigrants in Bucharest were joined into “Drita” society
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11 April 1914, battle of the Albanian gendarmerie with the Greek forces in the village of Peshtan
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11 April 1919, letter of Lausanne Committee for the Peace Conference in Paris