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- DirectorMetodi AndonovStarsApostol KaramitevElena RainovaDorotea TonchevaPsychological drama. A critical situation confronts the individual with a plethora of moral, social and political problems.
- DirectorMetodi AndonovStarsGeorgi Georgiev-GetzElena RainovaKosta TsonevThis is a typical story from the 'cold war' era. A Bulgarian secret service agent is sent to a big Western European company. He works under cover using a false name and finds that company is in fact a spy head office. His former colleague, who detected traces of the espionage business, is killed. The mission of the new agent becomes harder and harder. He receives unexpected help from the secretary of the company, who helps him reveal the identities of all foreign agents in Eastern Europe. Unfortunately, before their parting on the railway station, she is shot down.
- DirectorMetodi AndonovStarsKatya PaskalevaAnton GorchevMilen PenevThe film sends us to the 17th century when Bulgaria was a part of the Ottoman Empire. Four hoodlums break into the house of the shepherd Karaivan, raping and killing his wife in full view of their little girl, Maria. Karaivan decides to take the law into his own hands and becomes enslaved by his violent wish for revenge. He burns their house with his wife's body inside and abandons the gentle life they had shared, choosing instead to take his daughter to live in a rough hut high in the hills. He raises Maria as a boy, training her to fight so that she can kill in cold blood and help her father avenge her mother's murder. Nine years pass before the two locate and kill three of the four perpetrators. At each body they leave a goat horn as the symbol of their revenge. While on a mission to kill the last one at his rich oriental house, Maria becomes the unwitting witness of a love scene and change comes over her. Now, from time to time she secretly dons a beautiful women dress and exults in her newly found femininity. She falls in love with young shepherd and the hate begins to melt from her heart. When Karaivan discovers the change that is taking place in her it is already late. He tries to bring Maria back to him and their life of revenge, with disastrous results.
- DirectorMetodi AndonovStarsAnton GorchevKosta TsonevTzvetana ManevaThe Bulgarian intelligence officer Emil Boev is given another mission. He leaves for a symposium in a large western European city. An American spy Seymour makes him out. He offers his assistance. Boev begins "a great boring game" with him. When Boev completes his mission, and his life is in danger, he manages to reach the location, where his friend takes him to the border in his car.
- DirectorNikolay VolevStarsDeyan DonkovSaly IbrahimAnya PenchevaA romantic relationship emerges between a playwright in emotional crisis and young Gypsy girl when their cars crash down nearby in the mountains.
- DirectorNikolay VolevStarsHristo MutafchievKalina DonkovaDeyan DonkovTotal corruption and sky-high crime are among the most obvious signs of post-totalitarian reality in Bulgaria. Gangsters and politicians are hastily making vast fortunes in a market economy under the law of the jungle where straight civil servants are few and far between. One of them is Rado, an Anti-Mafia Corps captain. He has a beautiful wife and a loving 7-year old daughter. One day Rado finds out that the wife has a lover, and his boss is on the Mafia payroll.
- DirectorNikolay VolevStarsAleksandr MorfovElena PetrovaPetar PopyordanovMiddle Ages: Bulgaria is under the Ottoman Empire. Somewhere, far in the mountains, goatherd Karaivan lives with his wife and little daughter, Mariya. One day Turks burst into the house and rape the woman before the eyes of the daughter and husband. After the rape, she is killed by a raper and the girl is shocked into growing dumb. From this moment on, Karaivan is obsessed with the sole thought of taking revenge. He moves with his daughter into a cave high in the mountains, raises her as if she is a boy, trains her to fight and draw a bow. Deep in her heart, the girl has no hatred, but a craving for love. She meets a young Muslim shepherd and falls in love. The father is unable to swallow it and kills the young man.
- DirectorNikolay VolevStarsIrini JambonasHristo ShopovRashko MladenovMargarit and Margarita are high school senior students. They are madly in love. And so proud and independent that they are often in trouble with their parents and teachers. They quit school to live life their own way, only to face a world or corruption and brutality. Margarit would make no compromise and would not get involved in a game with shady rules. Margarita is more willing to do so in the name of their future together. A big manager takes her under his wing and shows himself to be a corrupt womanizer. Margarit cannot stand the debauchery of their 'protector' and kills him. After his sentence he puts an end to his life and unable to live her life this way, so does Margarita.
- DirectorNikolay VolevStarsVelko KynevIvan VelkovMaria StatulovaThis is a film about the general collision between the generations. The film tells us the story of a 14 year old boy and his father, and the way they fight over all the problems.
- DirectorNikolay VolevStarsTodor KolevYordanka StefanovaItschak FintziThis film is a comedy about a poor man, named Poorco. Poorco always fails in his attempt to escape from poverty. The film illustrates the social and the moral atmosphere in Bulgaria during the 1930's.
- DirectorNikolay VolevStarsTodor KolevPavel PopandovYordanka KuzmanovaProf. Denev is a talented scientist, but he cannot divide his time between the social and the scientific life. Suddenly he gets the idea to bring his cousin Ivan from the village. They look exactly alike. Ivan makes appearances at social events while the professor is working on his research. Initially not very confident, but with enthusiasm Ivan carries out his duties and his desire for material gains becomes huge. When the double threatens Denev's personal life, he throws him out.
- DirectorRumyana PetkovaStarsVania TzvetkovaIvan IvanovYanka StoimenovaA man and a woman meet again after many years - on the territory and circumstances of post-socialist Bulgaria. A university graduate and poetess, forced to adapt herself to the new social environment, she survives in her own country as a tram driver. Having arrived for his father's funeral after years of travels abroad, he catches a glimpse of his old flame accidentally in a tram. Could they bring back their emotional time, the time of their lives? Could they try to resurrect whatever bound them together in their youth?
- DirectorRumyana PetkovaStarsPlamena GetovaDetelina LazarovaVassil MihajlovA young lady - a famous writer - is enjoying her favorable life. A tragic accident makes her revise her busy life and a semi-love, a semi-marriage, and a semi-friendship come to the surface.
- DirectorIglika TriffonovaStarsPhillip AvramovAna PapadopuluPeter AntonovIvan's best friend, Kamen, is in an American hospital, in coma after an accident. Since he's denied a visa to the USA and can't stay by his side in his last moments, Ivan decides to set off for Bulgaria countryside, taking the camera Kamen has given him. There's a legend in Kamen's place of birth - a small mountain village - that one song could bring people back to life. Ivan starts a journey to find it and record it, collecting a myriad of stories along the way. Will he succeed?
- DirectorGeorgi DjulgerovStarsAneliya GarbovaIvan BarnevPavel PaskalevA tragic comedy about an orphan girl who knows nothing better than the animal way but at the end comes to realize her only chance - to be human.
- DirectorGeorgi DjulgerovStarsLiubov LiubchevaTzvetan AlexievIvaylo HristovThe stories of three men get tangled up in the life of the young Gipsy called Magdalena - that of the Bulgarian Lilyanin, who starts off as a fighter for brotherhood but turns into a persecutor of the Gypsies; the story of the savage Halibryamov, who knows the language of animals, but does not speak any human tongue; the story of a rich Gypsy called Kanyo who wants but does not dare to break with the lot of his kin, and story of a Frenchman in a wheelchair who comes to realize that money cannot buy everything. Magic alone can unravel this knot of destinies... And then, there is the Gypsy tale of the black swallow and how it came to be.
- DirectorGeorgi DjulgerovStarsRadena ValkanovaSamuel FinziDesislava KarushkovaA hot summer in the middle of the 50's. A pioneer's camp. 12 years old Dimana and Todor, while being on a guard of honor at a giant monument of Stalin, experience their first kiss. Literally, Stalin's shadow shelters them but figuratively, it separates them. They face their first moral disillusionment. 10 years later they meet in the same place. Todor is now a promising party functionary, sent to crush a students' riot at a summer working brigade. Dimana has managed to preserve her beliefs and integrity. This time their love has no inhibitions. But following his assignment, Todor succeeds in cheating the rebels and detaining them forcibly in the camp. The only one who refuses to obey is Dimana. The only path for her in a world like this is now to escape in search for freedom but she has to burn all bridges behind her in the process.
- DirectorRangel VulchanovStarsAlbena StavrevaAni VulchanovaAntoaneta StanchevaThis 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.
- DirectorLudmil StaikovStarsRousy ChanevIvan KrystevAnya PenchevaIn the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. A Janissary who was kidnapped from the village as a boy is sent to force the reluctant inhabitants to convert. The Turkish governor seeks a peaceful solution, but ultimately torture, violence, and rebellion break out.
- DirectorRangel VulchanovStarsStoyan AleksievGeorgi KaloyanchevKaterina EvroThis is a philosophical, eccentric and fantastic comedy. This is a fantastic escape from the reality and a dream-rebellion of the fantasy.
- DirectorRangel VulchanovStarsStefan MavrodiyevDiana SofronievaAntoniya ZhekovaAn absurd comedy which exposes the folly of war.
- DirectorGeorgi DjulgerovStarsTanya ShahovaIlia DobrevJana MirchevaThe successful writer Dobrin Iliev must take part in a literary competition as a chief of jury. Guided by her great desire to win, young schoolgirl Maya manages to become friendly with him. Her expansive personality appeals to him and it stirs his dormant feelings. What is more, he likes the poems of the provocative girl. Aware of the writer's weakness for her, Maya tells him of her secret: she is Katya's daughter. Twenty-five years ago Katya used to send him inspired poems to the front while she was still a student. Dobrin Iliev recalls his youth, when he works on pooling of private farms into big collective farms, when he had passed over with indifference the feelings of the sincere idealist Katya. Maya tries to convince Dobrin Iliev that she is his daughter and he is obliged to support her career. He knows full well that he is not Maya's father, but he nevertheless decides to help her and Maya gets the first prize in the school competition. However, it turns out that the poems belong to another girl. Against the background of Maya's swap of art for falsehood, Dobrin Iliev becomes aware of similar falsehoods in his (and society's) life.
- DirectorGueorgui StoyanovStarsPavel PopandovKonstantin KotsevNikola AnastasovThis film continues the tendency to produce paradoxical comedies of anti-fascism which started with Gueorgui Stoyanov's early work in late sixties. In the last days of World War II the provincial teacher Panteley arrives in Sofia to visit a cousin. Accidentally he becomes involved in the conflicts of the times. Out of pure humanity Panteley takes a wounded person to the nearest hospital where he leaves his passport as well. The wounded person proves to be a resistance fighter. Left without identity papers Panteley goes underground. This is the beginning of his "amateur" resistance in a string of comic situations. They reveal the absurdity of the clash between sound reason and the fascist police system. In his search for a way out, and constantly threatened with arrest, Panteley performs a series of courageous acts without being aware of it. He thus lives to see Victory Day but his lack of identity papers faces him once again with the risk of being suspected.
- DirectorKiran KolarovStarsEleftery ElefterovTzvetana ManevaPetar DespotovThis is a film about human dignity in a society resting on violence and subordination.
- DirectorGeorgi DjulgerovStarsRousy ChanevPlamen DonchevMaria StatulovaThe 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.
- DirectorEduard ZaharievStarsMariana DimitrovaGrigor VachkovVelko KynevThere were times when stealing girls in these lands has been a worthy vocation, was a habit and a sort of custom in Bulgaria. Only the strongest and most experienced men took the profession up. A young and brave Bulgarian highlander was given the job to bring, no matter how, a certain beautiful girl to be married to somebody. Such a lad was Banko, the main character in movie. The film traces the vicissitudes of Banko. He has made a bargain to ambush and abduct the pretty Elitza and deliver her to the man who wants to marry her. The kidnapping is a success in the beginning, but the girl, Elitza, reveals a "manly" character. She puts up a stiff resistance. She fights against being taken to the weak-willed, stupid groom, who believes that the money can buy him everything. In the beginning she implores him to set her free and then threatens to jump into a ravine. At first Banko, who has become used to submissiveness of his victim, is taken aback by this sort of reaction, which runs counter to the established norms of a patriarchal code of conduct. Ultimately Banko and Elitza fall in love. This leads to the most dramatic and tragic events in their lives. His confusion evolves into a conflict between the call of duty and his emerging love for Elitza. To Banko this love, which seems to be reciprocated by his victim, is tantamount to the breaking of his word of honor. He runs the gauntlet of desire, suffering and doubt, and sees his profession in a different light. This is a film about the dawning of understanding in an unencumbered primitive mind, a turning point in the development of Eduard Sachariev who in his subsequent films has proceeded to examine the role of love as a motive force of man's surviving for freedom.
- DirectorEduard ZaharievStarsKatya PaskalevaItschak FintziNaum ShopovA common Bulgarian family spends a warm afternoon in the fall in a country house. The preparations for a dinner party are in full swing. The formal reason is that the son enlists in the Army and the real reason is to arrange a match between him and the daughter of the boss. All the schemes are frustrated as it turns out that the boy has already married another girl. Both the hosts and the guests lose control, unleashing a consecution of tragic or comic situations.
- DirectorGeorgi DjulgerovStarsPlamen MaslarovElena MirtchofskaAsen KisimovThe action takes place during one day - 9.09.1944. This is the day when Bulgaria leaves the Axis coalition and joins Allies. The supporters of Germany are still fighting back. The partisan detachments are coming soon from the mountains. The film's young protagonist Mustafa is one of them. He will have to answer for himself important moral questions which the revolution asks of every man. He should decide for himself where exactly the boundary between justified and unjustified violence lies. This is the longest day in Mustafa's life - the day of his coming of age. On this day he experiences his first doubt. Mustafa remembers a night when they had orders to kill a political instigator but his friend Matey killed his child by mistake. Matey receives a light sentence but his guilty conscience makes him commit suicide. Another young boy joins the troupe and receives his name. He acts without questioning orders and without displaying doubt. One of his tasks is to carry out the execution of a group of arrested men after the coup. Mustafa is also there. He administers justice and feels himself unjustly punished by the death of his closest friend. On this same day he falls in love with the young partisan fighter Pshenichka and is separated from her because the enemy will shoot and kill him. The ending is a mournfully poetic - a ballad of the dark times the characters have lived.
- DirectorYanush VazovStarsElena StefanovaMargarita ChudinovaMladen MladenovIvan 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.