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- Ivan is a young working specialist. He wants 10 days unpaid from his boss because he wants to take time to be with his visiting mother. His mother arrives and with her visit, the young man lives through some exciting events with friends and strangers. He meets the beautiful and joyful girl Ani. In her rebellion against the consumer's moral of the people who surround her she looks for truth at the places where it never existed - the noisy parties in bars. Often in her harsh words and suggestive behavior one could see her strive to find herself. Ivan finds Ani to be his only true love. His feelings are expressed in the confrontation with Ani's father regarding the future of his daughter. In his desire to help her, Ivan is even being rude to Ani: "Live in the restaurants and practice your monologues or turn to periodical suicides!" These words hold the power of true love, they are full of pain and desire for help to the person who stand next to you. Ani tries to defend herself with the words: "...It is worse to be unable to do what you want". The way of the two young people to the truth and life will be long, as this truth is being overshadowed by them. For ten days Ivan lives through the excitement of love, the power of forgiving love of the mother in the city of sea and seagulls.
- In a small town begins an "Anti - alienation week". Due to this a hundred married couples get together before the official of the social state. The official is not in a good mood. He is getting divorced, he has a toothache and a number of problems in the city prevent him from carrying out his duty. He does not back down easily, since his duties make him invincible. This causes a conflict between the hundred nervous couples and an official.
- The Soviet army is approaching the Bulgarian border. Many government ministers and army officers prepare to flee the country. The partisans take over the key administrative buildings. At the War Ministry, the commander of the armored brigade Major Essev hesitates between his sense of honor as an officer and his patriotic duty. He takes the side of the partisans.
- A silly prince wants to marry a beautiful peasant girl. His guards kidnap her, but girl escapes and returns to her beloved.
- A young boy and his girlfriend live with political terror in Bulgaria in 1952.
- A gray border, dull village. Time seems to have stopped in this place. The appearance of a beautiful woman breaks the monotonous way of life and challenges the colorless group of men and makes them come out of their shells.
- This is a film about a great Bulgarian sportsman, yet it is not a sports film. Though it is a story about love, dreams, ups and downs, it is not a melodrama. The confession of the champion Valentin Hristov reveals to everyone, who still remembers his records established 35 years ago, what they have cost him. Those, who have never heard of him, will get familiarized with the life of his generation. 245.5! How heavily a dream weights!
- The misfortunes of a couple of guys who form a music group and think they can get rich and famous easy.
- Up until recently the Kremikovtsi metallurgical plant, which was the fruit of the life-affirming Bulgarian-Soviet friendship, was the pride of the Bulgarian economy. However, under the merciless conditions of the market economy, the factory began to fall into decline. The hygienic conditions in the women's washroom deteriorated drastically. It didn't even help when knowledge of five of six Western languages was required to apply for the position of attendant. In the struggle for survival, the management made a desperate attempt to combine the company's traditional cast-iron and steel manufacturing with the cultivation of bananas, oranges, and lemons. At that time, an out-of-work metal worker made some one-of-a-kind sculptures out of machine parts tossed out in the yard and painted impressive frescoes on the walls of the crumbling warehouses.
- The Bulgarian documentary filmmaker Stiliyan Parushev becomes the subject of this biography.
- The film takes us back to the days of Bulgarian Resistance during Second World War. Beautiful love between two young people burns out against the background of the Nazi reality.
- In the once cult film "Where Do We Go From Here?", (A Sega Nakade?) twenty-six novice actors are left to the mercy of an invisible examining board. An anonymous power grinds them down with intrusive questions and objectionable demands. The humiliated idealists are then faced with an agonizing and interminable wait to discover if they are to be given their big chance in life. Twenty years on, they all meet up for a banquet organized by a colleague posing as a sponsor. Only a few of them have remained faithful to their impoverished Muse, both in their native Bulgaria and abroad, where some have traveled in search of creative freedom. Together with their director, they examine what remains of their ideals and illusions, what has influenced their careers, often far removed from the delusive world of art. They compare their former hopes with their present aspirations, and their powerful recollections of youth with their now routine existence. This night of emotive confession and confrontation passes by in a tide of euphoria and nostalgia. Even the old director gazes with bitterness into his own past.
- This film is about an imaginary actors exam. In order to choose the best one the exam jury uses even immoral ways of selecting - spying, making conflicts, humiliating the applicants, taking advantage of its power.
- In the time of struggle for independent Bulgarian church and state (1870-1878) two friends come to hate one another as one of them chooses to serve his calling for music and the other subordinates his talent for music to his duty to his motherland.
- The authors of the film discuss the question where the limits of moral compromise lie.
- Pesho seems to float above the ground and in such state of mind solve the most important problems. Along with him are his friends - Mariya and Boyan. Mariya is ready to sacrifice herself, but the one who dies is Boyan. His cruel death shocks everyone. How should they react after they find out who is the murderer of their friend? Today's Pesho remembers a pretty girl in the middle of an unreal garden. Memory and reality intertwine to convey the perplexity of moral ideas.
- The Balkan Peninsula, between Bansko and Razlog, on the territory of the Ottoman Empire. The American missionary, Miss Ellen Stone, and the Bulgarian girl, Katerina Tsilka, are kidnapped by bandits. The ransom is enormous - 25,000 Turkish lira. Who will pay, and who is responsible for this incident? Bulgarian, Turkish and American diplomats search for a resolution to this difficult case. Their case does not leave the front pages of the international press for six months.
- On the night of 20/21 August 1968, the Combined Forces of the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia to reassert the Kremlin's control over the country. On 29 October 1968, three sophomores from the University of Sofia were arrested: Edward Genov, Alexander Dimitrov and Valentin Radev. Their 'crime' was in that they would not go on living a lie because the political repression has silenced dissent. The boys confronted the communist repressive machine for dealing with political gadflies. But then again, did 1968 actually happen in Bulgaria?
- Dimiter Dimov has written three novels, two of which have been among the most popular and best-selling over the hundred years after he was born. Which is inimitable in Dimiter Dimov's mentality and sensitivity? Which are the landmarks in his personality-building process? What are the secrets of his unique fictional world? Which is the weak point of his creative insights? The film is a quest for answers to these questions through the works of the writer and the memories of his loved ones.
- Two eternal opposing theses - play is our life or life is our play - are the base of music, dance and verse which fit together in this film.
- A young engineer arrives in a small provincial town and falls in with a traffic police inspector, a driving instructor, and a cannery-engineering manager. From sheer boredom, the inspector tickets a driver who has not broken the regulations. The driving instructor takes advantage of his position to seduce one of his students. To kill time, the engineering manager spends his time intriguing. These passions seem to be all that the three of them live for. The young engineer dislikes this environment and fears for his own integrity. One night the company goes for a bit of a hare poaching. The engineer dazzles the hares with the car's headlights and the rest shoot them. Soon the engineer cannot stand it any longer and leaves them. His path lies across a railway line. What will the oncoming train bring him: a redeeming feature or destruction?
- He doesn't know what love is. He doesn't understand what love is. He is afraid of love. His constant companion is disappointment. A tale of the impossible love of the piano player Alexander Paskalev and his student Nora and their meeting years later. Their paths have gone in different directions because of his fear of the incomprehensible feeling of love. Something happened in his childhood. Alexander tries to find a way to reach Nora but it is too late. Love can't happen. Why?
- This film is a portrait of a journey to a man who in times of universal strives for refuge had made the choice to be left alone. The film is about the romantic side of his poems and his longing for human communications through the destiny he himself decided to nave.
- The servants of Lovewit - a typical hermit of science whose only interest lie in alchemy - are left to dispose of his household - that is the steward Salt, the footman Face and the cleaning woman Doll. They are scheming how to make use of the house so that they get wealthy. Salt puts forward the striking idea to take up alchemy.Comedy of adventure, satirizing the everlasting human pursuit of health, happiness and wealth in magic ways without making any efforts.There has always been sorcerers, medic asters, magicians and alchemists deftly profiting from their trade, especially in periods of social perturbations.
- Stefcho is 82 years old. He lives in a miserable panel flat in a far-flung neighborhood. Like all Bulgarian pensioners, he lives on bread and yogurt. Every morning he methodically massages himself from head to toe. He tints his hair and his mustache with Aroma's shade No. 3. He sings in the funeral choir at the Central Sofia Cemetery. He plays the guitar. He performs virtuoso renditions of Italian canzonetti. He can do uncanny imitations of all sorts of animals. He never misses a new movie; as of now he has seen more than 32,000 different films. He collects posters, commemorative pins, razor blades, reproductions of works by great artists, illustrated cards, magazines, postage stamps, pictures of flowers and birds, calendars, and photos of movie stars and singers. His most prized possession, however, is his endless collection of love stories.
- The film deals with the events in Algeria during the last few years. The author analyzes the spiral of violence, created by the terrorism of the Islamic fundamentalists and the reciprocal actions taken by the government forces, the atmosphere of fear and insecurity in which the common people live. The film includes interviews with the representatives of the government, Islamic parties activists, politicians and the intellectual elite.
- After being appointed to the plant as a magna cum laud graduate, the young engineer Danailov has plans to overhaul the outdated organization of work. He gradually submits to the manager's patronizing attitude. Attracted by the prospects of a breath-taking career under the manager's wing, he surrenders to the aggressive advances of his daughter Ruzha and breaks with Lena, his fellow-student sweetheart. Through the fault of the chief engineer, the plant produces a large amount of shoddy feedstock. A commission is formed to look into the incident. The plant management sends Danailov as their representatives. They hope that he will cover up the manager's guilt and will shift the blame onto Zaharieva, an innocent scapegoat. Her attempted suicide and an unexpected encounter with Lena restore to Danailov his sense of responsibility, and he decides to fight for the truth.
- A visual poetry about the lust of a man chasing a woman, dictated by the mind of Kurt Schwitters.
- The film is based on Zahari Stoyanov's "Notes On Bulgarian Uprisings", a classic late-19th-century memoir. The narrative revolves round the preparation, the ups and downs, and the crushing of Bulgarian uprising against the Ottoman domination, which broke in April 1876. An event of great significance for the awakening of the national consciousness of the Bulgarian people, it attracted and held the attention of the European public. People across the continent were shocked by the bloody outrages of the oppressors. The film manages to present a sweeping picture of the complex and contradictory nature of the events it deals with. Revolutionary fervor, self-sacrifice and breath-taking heroism had to fight against crushing odds: the immense numerical superiority of the enemy, as well as certain instance of cowardice, dastardliness and even infamous treason. The film examines the personal experience of the leaders of the uprising, its heroes and martyrs (very successfully impersonated by a cast of young actors) against a background of fearsome upheavals and in the face of moments of greatness and downfalls, triumphs and defeats.
- Rhodopian people say: Mountain without a spring is like a woman without a heart. This phrase of the documentary ties down as a cosmic whole the springs and natural phenomenon near the Arda River, the history of the people there and their wood-cutters and builders' skills that have left Agush's resting places to the generations. Autors come near to the truth of Rhodopian people's life, which is imposed not only by the social standing but also by the natural laws of the Rhodope Mountains, without posting up of any ethnic understanding.
- A film about the young people from the late 80ies, about a disillusioned and apathetic generation, having broken with traditional values, but still not having established values of his own.
- Yanko, a young partisan, arrives in a small coastal town. He has to carry out a mission and return to his unit immediately. However, he runs into Armando, a former schoolmate. The guitarist Armando is genuinely overjoyed. He throws back a glass or two, plies his friend with questions, and indulges in memories. Yanko's heart is torn between conflicting emotions: Should he kill Armando and thus avoid the risk of detection? On the other hand, should he take a chance and spare his onetime friend? In a moment of lucidity, Armando realizes the tight spot that he is in. He offers the partisan his own, better clothes and wishes him god luck. Just when Armando is at his happiest, the police, who have mistaken him for the outlaw they want, shoot him.
- In an attempt to help two of his patients, the psychiatrist Paskalev sets up their encounter. A young boy, hospitalized after his second suicide attempt and a woman, who has just been told that her illness is terminal, meet in the hospital lift. What could happen in the narrow space for the few minutes lift travel from eight to first floor? May be nothing. But may be the infinite love of the woman for her son can touch the desolate stranger boy and bring him back to life. And if the boy wishes to live, may be the woman will gain courage to face the thought of her death. May be.
- The film is a documentary portrait of Jorgen Leth, structured around the poem The Perfect Human. Norway, September 2004. The young filmmaker meets one of his idols - the famous Danish film director Jorgen Leth. They decided to make a movie together. The film has been shot for a day in the hotel's lift, which was Schindler's lift.
- Pavel is an amiable loser, teaching at a film institute. He sells out his family apartment and accommodates his mother in a residence for elderly people to start filming his first picture. The bank, however, he deposits his money in, goes bankrupt and he can't afford to pay back the mob the loan taken to buy negative film stock. As for his family, the relations have for a long time turned into series of stupid and ridiculous misunderstandings. His wife cuckolds him, all his attempts to tale up with his son fail. The friendship with a neighbor boy ends in a classic knockout. A dubious partnership with an old colleague from the movie guild ends in a total fiasco before the Mafia. The only place Pavel feels comfortable is the student's cinema hall where old picture are screened. He often fancies himself a film character. Pavel starts behaving as such and gradually loses any sense of reality. When grasping that reality has rules of its own, it is already too late.
- This is an epic screen presentation showing the creation, the consolidation and the power of First Bulgarian Kingdom and the first Bulgarian ruler Khan Asparuh.
- In 1925 a group of the Military Center of the Bulgarian Communist Party blew up the church 'St. King (now ' St. Nedelya') in Sofia. As a result 150 people got killed and many more - injured. What aims did these people pursue? What should we call them today - mad, insane, terrorists, and idealists? It is time we realized the bitter truth that their aim was irrelevantly obscure.
- The intimate tale of a family can encapsulate the evolution and state of the society in which it lives. A privileged insight into the family album may enable the audience to relive important chapters in history and sense the mood of the times. The family in this story is that of writer Angelika Schrobsdorff. It is almost as if major characters from her work had developed a life of their own to reveal the invisible pages we could not find in her books.
- The action takes place during the socialist period in Bulgaria. The central character, nicknamed the Cock is an artistic personality, a man of strong character known as the king of the pickpockets. His keen sense of personal freedom comes up against the universally accepted norms of behavior. The Cock likes a game, adventure and danger, while socialist society needs obedience. The Cock makes a stand against this order; he does not want to play his games according to rules. He is telling his story of two decades: his imprisonment, his love affairs. To him love is a fateful meeting of two persons and has nothing to do with Philistinism. The Cock is an amiable chap though being an adventurer, trickster, and an artist by nature, irresponsible and asocial. In the mean time he wastes his gift on virtuoso thefts and monumental banquets which regularly land him in jail. The Cock, who used to live outside the law, now tries to play the rules of the game. He trades favors with the prison staff and ends up betraying his friends.In the end the filmmakers allow him to die a dignified death. During an escape attempt before dying he saves the life of a child. His dream of life comes to an absurd end.
- A Girl is hitchhiking to the seaside. At nightfall, she sneaks in a gas station. The Boy who works there discovers her. The two begin a conversation. Through the gas station pass very different people. The boy and the Girl love theater and they act the balcony scene of "Romeo and Juliet". The Boy waits for his Chick and worries about the presence of the Girl. The Chick comes and demonstrates her new dress. Hiding, the hitchhiker watches their conversation. The Chick sees her, gets upset and leaves. The Girl says that the Chick is egoistic. The Boy and the Girl quarrel. She decides to go back home. The Boy convinced her to continue her journey to the seaside.
- Interpretations and variations on the classic literary work Bai Ganio by the Bulgarian writer Aleko Konstantinov - incredible tales about a contemporary Bulgarian.
- A house, a tree, a grandmother - somewhere far away. A film about the little things, a film about the things that we love. A story so close and authentic that makes us think: what do we lose in our permanently busy daily lives. And what do we sacrifice by moving to the big city, looking for a better life.
- Elena, a pregnant young girl walks the steep path to the orphanage where single mothers often leave their children. The girls in the hospital greet Elena with a ritual they made up. She remains closed in herself. Elena tries to contact the boy who is the father with no success. Instead of him, his parents come. People who wish to adopt a child also come. Another woman does not find the strength to overcome the critical attitude of the people towards single mothers. This leads Elena to decision to take care of her baby by herself.
- Ani, a charming young girl, is a driver at Sofia Airport. She sends a letter to her boyfriend Boyan, a worker at a large construction site. The letter contains a single word "yes". Boyan starts preparing for a wedding. The Soviet pilot Andrey will soon return home after several years spent working with his Bulgarian colleagues. They arrange a farewell tour of Bulgaria for him on which Ani has to drive him. Because of mistaken jealousy, Boyan tears up his sweetheart's letter. She cannot go to him to sort out the misunderstanding, because she has to leave with the guest. Apparently, by chance, their first stopover is in the town where Boyan works. Andrey realizes that his tour may prevent the young couple from straightening out their problem. He feigns illness, and while the lovers are engaged in expressing vows of love, he strolls across the town on his own. Finally, he finds a guidebook and learns something about the sights he was unable to visit. Ani and Boyan get married. Andrey leaves for his country pleased in spite of the bungled tour.
- The elegant and fun-loving Bulgarian meets a young lady in the street and begins to flirt with her.She decides to teach the stranger a lesson and suggests that he should accompany her round the market-place where she goes on a spending spree. To her surprise she discovers that she has no money with her and asks her escort to lend her some. He agrees. The lady takes Bulgarian to the posh restaurant where she order expensive drinks and refreshments at his expense. Then she loads her escort down with the parcels and leads the way home. On the way she meets her husband and proposes that he should hire a cab so that they can relieve "the porter". The couple leave Bulgarian in a state of shock. He is tipped a small coin for the services rendered.
- This is a documentary film, built on the novelette-like principle. A historian, a political science expert and an artist start on a tour round the Balkan countries aiming to put an end to an old dispute - what should an all-Balkan text-book of history be like, since that is one of the ways to find a common ground for the Balkan peoples. Which of the events should be included in this general history book, which are to be highlighted and which should be passed over in silence? Is it possible for a history textbook of that kind to carry out the mission it's been assigned to - reconcile the irreconcilable? Is it really possible for such a textbook to be written?
- The Gypsies celebrate Virgin Mary's Day and endearingly call her Bari Virgin Mary - the slay the sacrificial animal, betroth the young ones, christen their children. The songs and dances bit sort of a farewell to the bountiful summer, before the winter comes over. The gypsies are shown such as they appear in a film made after the script of the young Gypsy poet Hristo Hristov.
- In this picture, the barrier epitomizes the line between reality and dreams, the pattern of harmony and happiness. The delicate, pretty, sensitive Dorotea and the sedate middle-aged composer Antoni meet by chance. He gives her shelter in his house. Famous composer falls under the spell of young Dorothea: A pretty, thin-skinned, though quite an eccentric girl. Antoni becomes the witness of a series of strange and wonderful events. She is maintaining she is able to fly, drawing him into her half real world, when miracles are worked. It turns out that Dorotea has the supernatural gift of divining and forecasting people thoughts and intentions. Gradually Antoni overcomes his initial confusion and becomes used to the parapsychological states of the girl. He penetrates her acutely sensitive inner world where the supernatural becomes natural and the impossible possible. And when he learns that Dorotea can fly, he joins her and flies with her. During this experiment he feels a surge of creativity and happiness for the first time in many years. Is all this real or imaginary? Embarrassed, as he is, he leaves on a short trip, and when finally resolved to come back to her, it is too late. Why is it that Dorotea is found dead apparently having fallen after one of her flights?
- The police trucks and the piled up dead partisans in the village square shatter the peace of the village. The people manage to not only bear these extreme conditions, but also manage to take part in history. An army blocks off the village. Arrests and interrogation are common. The partisans are hiding in the forest. One of the soldiers manages to run off to them. The pot maker is among their aids and is killed while completing a mission.
- The story begins with a serious disillusionment experienced by a young girl at her school-leaving farewell ball. Apostol, an architect on this side of forty, meets by chance Bella at a swimming pool on the night of her graduation party. The generation gap is a wide one, but Bella falls sway to his intelligence, friends, his life-style and the respect everybody shows for her. Boyan is an actor and comic impersonator. The complex relationships among the three characters hover between friendship and love and involve certain professional motifs. The architect, an even-tempered man, is dispirited because the bold design decisions he has been taking have been regularly rejected. The overly playful actor surrounded by dummies and stage-pros, builds his life exclusively on outer effects. But deep inside he is sad because he knows that he has no real talent. Bella, unexpectedly mature for her age, cannot remain indifferent to the falsehoods and the indifferent attitude to life. She is in conflict with her own mother - a shallow television journalist. Bella's unconscious protest finds its real bearings only when she gets a glimpse of anti-fascist past of the architect who is already infatuated with her. At the end, she marries his best friend, Boyan, though Apostol would be the most important person in her lifetime. The film is notable for the vivid symbolism of its imagery. The swimming pool is not only the place of the action but also a metaphor of human life.