Documentary films

A film about a woman’s folklor chorus. Several years ago, when the chorus gained worldwide fame, its conductor Zdravko Mihaylov suddenly died. Today his son Ilia Mihaylov starts anew. Will he succeed, who are the women singers, how do they cope with their everyday problems, why cannot they live without the song in spite of the hard times they live in?…

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.

The film is a story of the different patterns of marital relations in some seemingly monogamous animals and birds. Does infidelity, as we people perceive this phenomenon, exist in nature? Is there a natural mechanism, regulating the reproductional processes? Using the means of expression of a popular science film this film gives an answer to the aforesaid questions.

"In a small nice restaurant in Istanbul I was having dinner with friends from various Balkan countries – a Greek, a Macedonian, a Turk, a Serb and me, Bulgarian. There I heard the song whose story is told in the film. As soon as we heard the song everyone started claiming that the song came from his own country. Then we started a fierce fight – whose is this song? I wanted to find out why the others also claimed the song was theirs…" Adela Peeva