

A 1952 Yugoslav ship sails to NYC in 10 minutes — no TikTok, just pure maritime wanderlust.
A travel documentary about the ship "Macedonia" which sets sail from the port of Rijeka, travels along the Mediterranean Sea stopping at Alexandria, Genova, Marseilles, Algiers and arrives at the final destination in New York.
Cinematography
Glorious socialist-realist ship glamour shots
Production
Rare Yugoslav-American co-production footage
Director
Blagoja Drnkov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rijeka was a contested free territory until 1954, making this 1952 departure politically loaded cinema.
Director Blagoja Drnkov was a Macedonian pioneer whose ship documentaries funded his later fiction work.
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