2012

01.01.2012

CONCISE HISTORY OF SOCIALIST REALISM

The documentary film explores historically the phenomenon of the socialist Realism. Using a lot of archives, footage, photos, documents and analysis of the processes in art, the authors show the clearest manifestations of the socialist Realism and trace the origin, bloom and the decline of this method. With pain and humour the film tells dramatic human stories and shows the works of talented authors and artists in Bulgaria. The film also reveals the conditions in which the artists lived and worked and shows how the cultural policy of the USSR dominated the processes in the country and the entire socialist region.
01.01.2012

PUZZLE

We are all like pieces in a Jigsaw Puzzle, where one piece only fits another, particular piece, so that you get the Picture right. Often, however, fate chooses to place a different piece instead – looking almost the same, yet not quite… and there always remains an empty space in-between. So can fate actually be rewritten?
01.01.2012

THE BOY WHO WAS A KING

The past haunts the present, fact meets fiction, and myth rivals reality to tell the fascinating story of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, from his exile as a boy-king through his glorious return as a republican politician to his fall from grace in one of the greatest experiments of democracy today.
01.01.2012

SUNNY SIDE

A hundred-year-old church that regularly emerges only to be submerged again by the waters of a huge dam is the venue, where Father Zlatan is trying to organize a gathering of the surviving descendants of the sunken village scattered all over the world. An arrogant politician surgeon, a vicar, who is also an operetta singer, a woman, who has become a famous international journalist, and an Italian student endure significant vicissitudes, from Rome to Kandahar via Vienna, only to discover it is fate that leads them back to their predecessors’ roots.
01.01.2012

THE MONUMENT AND HIS BROTHER

Gabrovo. Two houses, almost next to one another. A father, and two brothers who never met. The younger was born 10 years after the execution of the elder. But both have the same name – Mitko Trifonov Palauzov. The film explores the history of the child and the propaganda story that ruined the life of the living man, who had to go by the name of his dead brother for half a century. This is a film about lying to the dead and the effort of the living brother to make at least his life real.
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