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Tag Archives: Bulgaria
Blind (2007) Tamar van den Dop, Joren Seldeslachts, Halina Reijn, Katelijne Verbeke
In late 19th century’s Netherlands, an albino woman and a blind man develop an indiscriminate love for one another. Will love be blind? Read More »
The Profession of Arms (2001) Ermanno Olmi, Christo Jivkov, Sergio Grammatico, Dimitar Ratchkov
The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Read More »
Ave (2011) Konstantin Bojanov, Anjela Nedyalkova, Ovanes Torosian, Martin Brambach
While hitchhiking from Sofia to Ruse, Kamen meets Ave, a 17-year-old runaway girl. Read More »
East – West (1999) Régis Wargnier, Oleg Menshikov, Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Deneuve
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. Read More »
The Paradise Suite (2015) Joost van Ginkel, Anjela Nedyalkova, Boris Isakovic, Erik Adelöw
The Paradise Suite is a story about six people finding each other and, sometimes with just one glance, influencing each other’s lives irreversibly. Read More »
Dalí (1991) Antoni Ribas, Lorenzo Quinn, Sarah Douglas, Michael Catlin, Biography, Drama
This is a biographical film on the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali. Young Dali, already famous in Europe, arrives in New York in the 1940s because that’s where the money is, and the war isn’t. Read More »
Urok / The Lesson (2014) Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Margita Gosheva, Ivan Barnev, Ivan Savov, Drama
Engaging story of a school teacher trying every options available to save her house from the auction block. Her predicament came about by her shiftless unemployed husband. Read More »
Bulgarian Rhapsody / Raphsodia Bulgarit (2014) Ivan Nitchev, Kristiyan Makarov, Moni Moshonov, Tatyana Lolova, Drama
Summer of 1943. The Jews of Greater Bulgaria must adhere to the laws of Germany. Moni, (17) a Jewish youngster from Sofia and Giogio the son of the commissar for Jewish affairs’ driver, meet Shelly (17) a Jewish girl from Kavala (Greece). The two face the values and limits of friendship, as they both fall in love with her, while outside rages their conflicted world.
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Sterne / Stars (1959) Konrad Wolf
Bulgaria, 1943. A train carrying Greek Jews is bound for the Auschwitz extermination camp and stops over in a small town in southwest Bulgaria. The school is converted into camp. Passing by the barbed-wire fence, the the Nazi army sergeant Walter meets a young Jewess called Ruth and falls in love with her. His buddy, Lieutenant Kurt, who is in charge of the camp, has her brought to a party in the pub. There Walter has a chance to talk with her. Having grown indifferent to people suffering, he is now awakened to unsuspected emotions and experiences a change of heart. When he next meets the girl, Walter convinces her that Nazism and war. Her fate and love make anew man of him. He gives a package of medicine for the inmates of the camp to Petk, a Bulgarian antifascist worker, but the German find them and destroy them. Walter is making arrangements for Ruth’s escape. He asks Petko to hide her but it is too late. The train has left.
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