2003

A film that was initiated in 1992 and was finished in 2003. Good stuff, that has mellowed 11 years. It is about a man, who had two death sentences. He has lived in Sweden, in France. He doesn’t want to come back to Bulgaria, because… A film about human nature… About our plight…

Dr. Constantine Stoilov - being one of the three most influential Bulgarians of all times, he has been depicted by a number of outstanding writers. Despite having a cold appearance, he is an extremely emotional person. As a politician he is a sophisticated European although in his innermost he is a meek religious man. 

Despite her outstanding talent, Slavka Deneva was forsaken, pressed and ignored by the totalitarian institutions. Her first exhibition took place a decade after her death, in 1994. Today her works occupy their well-deserved place among the eminent representatives of modern Bulgarian painting. She is the biggest individual donator in the whole history of Communist Bulgaria.

Experts and amateurs from different spheres comment the prerequisites for errors and the methods of coping with them. The mystery and complexity of real life makes every effort to finally deal with errors pointless.

Wiener waltzes and ridiculous historical analyses… The war usually harms the people’s life, but in the family of Ivan Chuchurigin the WWI is a recollection of something marvelous. His son and the village historian tell us about the incredible love story of Ivan. Is it true or is it a beautiful fiction?

"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