BG: Bulgarian cinema before 1989
Bulgarian movies released during the communist regime.
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- DirectorIvan AndonovStarsTodor KolevNevena KokanovaStefan MavrodiyevHe is well educated, charming, and gallant - a dream for each lonely lady. In reality he is a skillful swindler, who robs naive women. Cheating merchants with guilty consciences are his targets as well. This is the elusive protagonist of the movie. He constantly changes his name, stages his own death, and travels from town to town. His exploits are myriad and his life is an endless adventure. Yet, he remains an amiable swindler, an unrealized actor, whose only goal is make his life more interesting.
- DirectorLyudmil KirkovStarsVelko KynevFilip TrifonovPavel PopandovThe misfortunes of a couple of guys who form a music group and think they can get rich and famous easy.
- DirectorVladimir YanchevStarsApostol KaramitevGinka StanchevaLyubomir BobchevskiThe main heroes are twin brothers. The first is responsible young fellow and excellent footballer. The second one is an undependable gambler. The police are after him. A pretty girl stands in between them. She has profoundly fallen for the footballer. By coincidence, the twins change places, which result in a formidable mess and funny situations. Ultimately, all the misunderstandings are settled and the couple re-joins.
- DirectorEduard ZaharievStarsItschak FintziNikola TodevGeorgi RusevThis satirical comedy with grotesque situations ridicules the socialist bureaucracy.
- DirectorPeter DonevStarsVelko KynevGeorgi KaloyanchevTatyana LolovaA country town gets excited because of a bank robbery - eight million levs have been stolen from the local bank. A sensational piece of news jolts a small provincial town out of his lethargy. It is the chance of the lifetime of Inspector Tyuhchev. He arrives at scene of the crime and the inquest gets underway with such professionalism that even Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot would have envied him. He has the opportunity to show real professionalism, to make a brilliant display before his fellow-townsmen. Who is the thief? The cashier, the bank manager, the cabaret singer, the French teacher or, God forbid, the mayor himself? Yet, the methods of Inspector are more or less ridiculous, rather than efficient. After a series of funny and unexpected twists and turns, the Inspector tracks down the thief, who turns out to be none other than Doctor Velizar Kardushev, his landlord, whom the Inspector had all along taken into his confidence. All the time the millions had been stashed under the mattress of the Inspector's bed. So far, so good! But suddenly the new arrives that Kardushev's father has in meantime become a minister in the capital. At this point the Inspector faces a new trial: what to do with Kardushev, since he can take advantage of the cushy job in the capital which he can obtain with the assistance of the thief's father? And is it possible to become a hero with a minister's son as a robber?
- StarsStoycho MazgalovSotir MaynolovskiIvan LaskinThe adventures of a boy who dreams of the sea... A sailor's son flees from school and his home and secretly sails with his father's ship. News and discoveries are coming - both on the ship and on the shore.
- 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.
- DirectorVassil GendovStarsVassil GendovZhana GendovaMaria Toromanova-HmelikThe university student and a girl are in love. They make dates, visit a party shop. The girl's aunt opposes their love. She has decided to marry her off to a rich suitor from whose uncle she receives a telegram that his nephew will be arriving from Gabrovo. While Aunt Kera is asleep in the winter garden the young people meet. The girl informs her lover about the forthcoming visit. The student decides to cunningly discredit the suitor of her choice before the aunt. He changes clothes with his friend and poses as the expected wooer. In the conversation with Aunt Kera he feigns nervous tics. Scared she turns him out of the house. After a second change of clothes the two young man carry on the farce. The friend playing the part of the of the mentally deranged suitor raves round the garden, screaming and threatening. The student who happens to pass by chases him away. Having passed himself off for a hero in the aunt's eyes, he finally gets her blessing. The young couple fall into each other's arms.
- DirectorVassil GendovStarsVassil GendovMara Miyateva-LipinaAngelovThe elegant and fun-loving Bulgarian meets a young lady in the street and begins to flirt with her.She decides to teach the stranger a lesson and suggests that he should accompany her round the market-place where she goes on a spending spree. To her surprise she discovers that she has no money with her and asks her escort to lend her some. He agrees. The lady takes Bulgarian to the posh restaurant where she order expensive drinks and refreshments at his expense. Then she loads her escort down with the parcels and leads the way home. On the way she meets her husband and proposes that he should hire a cab so that they can relieve "the porter". The couple leave Bulgarian in a state of shock. He is tipped a small coin for the services rendered.
- DirectorPetar B. VasilevStarsKiril GospodinovYuriy YakovlevValentina BorisovaA research worker Robespier Galabov (Yakovlev) lives with his family in a small communal flat with shared kitchen and dreams about a self-contained home. Galabov meet Rangel Lelin (Gospodinov), the well-known amidst the localities as the past-master, when he realized that the new municipal apartment they apply for won't be ready in the next decade. The Past-Master promises to build the private house in a month. After starting the construction, Rangel Lelin constantly blackmail Galabov for more money through treat of "putting the hat". Finally the house was built but the inauguration become gloomy. It turns out that the chimney of the fireplace doesn't work properly. After days of luckless attempts to solve the problem the past-master's brother come into sight. Knowing the Lelin's tricks he find a hat built in the chimney.
- DirectorPetar B. VasilevStarsKiril GospodinovTodor TodorovNataliya ZubarevaBash mastorat went on an organized trip to Hungary. In Budapest finds a way to get out of the group, feigning injury to earn money from the sale of brandy. Meeting with his brother, who is site manager and asked him to hire him for the duration of the trip, but gets rebuffed. Meanwhile deceived the street from the Bulgarian cheynchadzhiya, pretending to be a Hungarian student. To knock out loss Bash mastorat is agreed by adult Bulgarian immigrant to finish construction of his house.
- DirectorPetar B. VasilevStarsKiril GospodinovIvan TanevSilviya AvramovaBash mastorat has a pig farm, which employs four keepers - former buyer Raphael hiding from authorities, alcoholic poet Tcanko and beautiful gypsy Rose with her husband. Once again bash mastorat is trying to using any clever maneuvers to deceive sanitary authorities in checking his holding.
- DirectorPetar B. VasilevStarsKiril GospodinovValentina BorisovaYuriy YakovlevBash maystorat buys a high school degree. He was appointed to the job by starting to take advantage. First started an affair with his secretary, and then enticed all his friends to participate in the future construction of apartment building from which they will receive apartments. Of course everything goes wrong.
- DirectorPetar B. VasilevStarsIvan YanchevKiril GospodinovTodor KolevIn a small town begins an "Anti - alienation week". Due to this a hundred married couples get together before the official of the social state. The official is not in a good mood. He is getting divorced, he has a toothache and a number of problems in the city prevent him from carrying out his duty. He does not back down easily, since his duties make him invincible. This causes a conflict between the hundred nervous couples and an official.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorRangel VulchanovStarsAlbena StavrevaAni VulchanovaAntoaneta StanchevaIn the once cult film "Where Do We Go From Here?", (A Sega Nakade?) twenty-six novice actors are left to the mercy of an invisible examining board. An anonymous power grinds them down with intrusive questions and objectionable demands. The humiliated idealists are then faced with an agonizing and interminable wait to discover if they are to be given their big chance in life. Twenty years on, they all meet up for a banquet organized by a colleague posing as a sponsor. Only a few of them have remained faithful to their impoverished Muse, both in their native Bulgaria and abroad, where some have traveled in search of creative freedom. Together with their director, they examine what remains of their ideals and illusions, what has influenced their careers, often far removed from the delusive world of art. They compare their former hopes with their present aspirations, and their powerful recollections of youth with their now routine existence. This night of emotive confession and confrontation passes by in a tide of euphoria and nostalgia. Even the old director gazes with bitterness into his own past.
- DirectorTedi MoskovStarsMaya NovoselskaFilip TrifonovSamuel FinziThis is a story about a woman, but not completely a woman, because she is funny and plump, because she is a comedienne and being a female comedienne is very difficult work. During the whole time, the comedienne gets in the way of the woman and the woman # in the way of the comedienne. In fact, nothing in the life of this woman is 'completely'. She is an actress, but not completely. She is playing the role of her life, but not completely. In the end she dies, but not completely.
- DirectorGueorgui StoyanovStarsStefan MavrodiyevPavel PopandovItschak FintziTwo young people living in the country decide to move to the big city by all means. They set off hitch-hiking, but on the road uncertainty and remorse seize them. Is that the right decision? In their journey they face both good intentions and perfidy. Do they finally arrive in the big city or come back to their village?
- DirectorBorislav PunchevStarsGeorgi KaloyanchevIvan GrigorovGeorgi PartsalevIn order to shorten the completion period of a new work area, the director promises that he will organize a grand concert of famous opera singers at the opening of the new hall. There is an unexpected problem - there is no grand piano. The brigadier sends one of his workers to look for the instrument in the town. He finds himself in a very mysterious new world. After a series of comic situations, he manages to find the grand piano. The grand piano is in the production hall. The order of the day is completed, but is that enough?
- DirectorPetar B. VasilevStarsApostol KaramitevGeorgi KaloyanchevGinka StanchevaA dentistry student, graduating with honor, does not get the desired job and has to start working as a MASTER OF ALL TRADES in a construction company. He has to paint walls, clean chimneys, and fix water conduits. He is not able to accomplish any of these tasks and gets into funny situations all the time. He and his roommate, a good friend of his, quarrel over a girl. But this situation is a misunderstanding as well - the friends love different girls. A happy end is in sight.
- DirectorVladimir YanchevStarsGeorgi CherkelovRangel VulchanovGeorgi PopovIt all started with a small misunderstanding. A young journalist writes a feuilleton and submits it to the editor-in-chief together with a request for a leave of absence. The editor wants to grant his permission for leave of absence and to reject the feuilleton, but a mistake occurs and the short story is being published in the newspaper. The satire on the fictional protagonist is taken literally and many people are offended. They place the editorial offices under siege and request the journalist's resignation. Just before he is dismissed, it turns out that the superiors have liked his feuilleton. The intruders are driven back.
- DirectorIvan AndonovStarsFilip TrifonovVania TzvetkovaPetar PopyordanovThe authors of the film discuss the question where the limits of moral compromise lie.
- DirectorIvan AndonovStarsHristo ShopovGeorgi StaykovSofiya KuzevaThe 1960s was the time of Beatles and Rolling Stones, the time of sexual revolution. These events have their echo in Bulgarian English-learning school. The school order provokes a protest of the students due to the narrow-minded teachers.
- DirectorIvan AndonovStarsLyuben ChatalovVania TzvetkovaStefan MavrodiyevThe action takes place in the early years of socialist Bulgaria. The former merchant was found dead in his bed. Murder or suicide? How to explain the fact that the door of his room was locked, and an old bronze key was found on the inside of it?
- DirectorIvan AndonovStarsStefan DanailovTzvetana ManevaMariana DimitrovaA couple of young ladies decide to obtain a driving license. The film is a true comedy of relations, caused between the driving-teacher and the beginner-drivers.
- DirectorIvan AndonovStarsVelko KynevYevstati StratevGeorgi RusevThe film is a feileton about how the desire to make a career can raise both incompetence and lies in a "bright example", as an example to follow.
- DirectorIvan AndonovStarsMariana DimitrovaPavel PopandovKatya ChukovaThe local painter in a small provincial town becomes the main attraction after opening an exhibition. The event is commemorated festively, the elite of the town is there and everyone wants to share his opinion about the art. One of the paintings, however, depicts a fairy dance of young, naked women and vigilant citizens discover similarities with a certain lady. The painting disappears, but in the end it is restored in a totally unexpected way.
- DirectorIvan AndonovStarsIlka ZafirovaPepa NikolovaPetya SilyanovaIn the spring of 1945 the war is still going on, but in Bulgaria the communists have already seized the power. The new rulers do justice according to their personal interests. This is the beginning of the era of Communism in Bulgaria - spiritual poverty, expropriation, destroying of the intelligentsia. In this chaos the main character, an actress fallen on hard times, wants to preserve her social status with every available means. She claims to be a Communist activist and, in order to gain access to the theater even shows a photo with the Bulgarian communist revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov's dog However, in order to survive, she has to resort to betrayal.
- 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.
- DirectorIvanka GrybchevaStarsEli SkorchevaMarin YanevPepa NikolovaOn one of the floors of the clinic, several women are waiting for their turn to have an abortion. On another floor, other women are struggling to keep the fetus of their pregnancy. The main character Toni must decide whether to give birth to a child who will not have a father. The fate of the women around her forces her to choose a life for her unborn child.
- 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.
- DirectorLyudmil KirkovStarsDiana ChelebievaGeorgi Georgiev-GetzLili EnevaBorn in a small village, Yordan has to live and work in the nearby town. Only on the weekends can he return to his native village. He travels by a bike and observes the nature and the animals around him with overt sadness. In the village arrives a young pharmacist and she rents his house. Soon both of them fall in love. In order to be near her, Yordan tries to persuade his colleagues to move one of the workshops from the plant to the village. But they are all used to living in the town now and decline his offer. Yordan realizes that he cannot demand impossible things.
- DirectorIvanka GrybchevaStarsDimitar GanevNikolay DanailovOgnyan AtanasovThree thematically related novels. The first is "Mother, father and me". The adults have hard time answering the kid's questions. Young Yulian sees that his parents are arguing. He cannot explain how his dad left the home, since his nightshirt and bed are there. The parents send Yulian to his grandpa at the village. The kid has a lot of fun, there are animals - pig, cock, turkey and he is playing all day. The grandpa dies. When Yulian goes home, he gets lost. Her mother accidentally meets him and embraces him crying. Second novel is "School". Three friends Yulian, Rumen and Hristo use small ceramic tiles for a game of marbles. Where to find them? In a construction site nearby there are many tiles of the sort. They break a mosaic. The kids are punished by their parents and at their school. The third novel is "Lily". At the beach of the sea, Yulian is playing with Lily. He gets a seashell, gives it to the girl. On the next morning, the Lily's family leaves. That does not matter to the Yulian's parents, but he is quite sad, since he finds the seashell on a chair. He is sad for the first time in a strange kind of way, something that he never felt before.
- DirectorVulo RadevStarsStefan DanailovDorotea TonchevaVioleta GindevaThe film is based on the memoir 'In the name of the People' by Mitka Grybcheva, an activist in the anti-fascist resistance. The action takes place during the WWII and reveals the sharp clash between police power and resistance forces, headed by the Communist Party of Bulgaria. This is a time when, 'in the name of the people', the fighters are setting up underground combat groups, which punish with death their political opponents. The film's characters are specially trained for the purpose young people, members of one such combat group. Against the background of their risky task, in the execution of which they have to pay with their own lives, every facet of their characters stands out. Faced with death they reveal their intimate worlds, their unrealized youthful impulses that have been sacrificed in the name of commands, disparate from the Ten Christian Commandments.
- DirectorChavdar GagovStarsStefan MavrodiyevTodor KolevGeorgi RusevZone V-2 is the name of an exurb around a big city. It is a model of the world which has its own laws and relationships. The inhabitants of the zone are representatives of different strata of society: the little man; the waiter in the private restaurant; the guild for whom having a VCR is the realized dream; the young engineer dreaming of working abroad; The tapestry workshop, under whose guise is a brothel for managers .The harmless-looking meetings and conversations for the occupants of the exurb hide problems linked to the processes of modern times - a satire against vulgarity and seemingly good intentions. Zone V-2 fights to become a champion zone. Former manager Videlov (Boris Lukanov) heads up the efforts in this direction. There are set rules that define how life should be lived in the Zone. In this case, you can see that keeping animals in the zone is banned, while watching a video at Lungurov's house is paid. One day Rangelov (Stefan Mavrodiev), the black sheep of the Zone, takes at home a roe deer brought from the forest by a rainstorm. He is ordered to get rid of the mammal, but he refuses. A deer commission is then appointed. Bonev (Todor Kolev) has doubts in his wife because of the twenty-lev notes he finds at home. One day he accidentally discovers that his daughter was dancing at Videlov's house for a fee. To save the deer, Rangelov hides it with the restaurant keeper. For several days, the Commission meets right there to consider a solution to the problem. The answer is found on the table.
- StarsGeorgi KaloyanchevTodor KolevAlbena ChakyrovaIn the mid 40's, under the sinking Fascist Invasion, a police squad tries to suppress Communist movement in a remote village.
- DirectorBinka ZhelyazkovaStarsTodor KolevDelyana HadzhiyankovaStanka KalchevaTwo girls with the same name-Nadezhda (Hope) -live in the same apartment. Great Nadezhda is isolated from other people. She has no other aspirations than to marry a much older than her man. Over time, she will realize that this is her father, whom her mother is hiding. A small Nadezhda is the complete opposite of a great Nadezhda. She lives for others. Take care of Grandpa. She opposes rudeness and meanness. Gradually, the two girls change places. They become two parts of one whole.
- DirectorIliya KostovStarsIvan GrigorovStefan PopovYordan BikovA relentless satire of society without direction. Tragicomic situations where laughter displaces tears and makes room for reflection. The experience of demitologizing the main Bulgarian values. "Tap tap" is a Bulgarian train between sarcasm and self-irony. A colorful kaleidoscope of our mores, discovered in the journey to Hope.
- DirectorLyudmil TodorovStarsEmil CotevPetar PopyordanovAleksandr MorfovFour friends and three girls spend a summer on a desolated beach, living in an abandoned hut.
- DirectorLyudmil KirkovStarsNevena KokanovaFilip TrifonovSashka BratanovaThe action centers on Ran and his schoolmates who are in the last year of school. They are only a few days away from the day when they will have to make a decisive choice: what are they going to be, and what is more important, how are they going to live? In the whirlpool of meetings with different people and mainly with three women, the filmmakers are trying to see the future of their main character. His schoolmate Mariana wants to lead him into family life. The pop singer Neli is the very incarnation of adventurism. However, he is most deeply touched by the salesgirl in the near-by coffee shop Tintyava. This is a wordless affair in which each glance exchanged betrays the piercing excitement of impossible love.
- DirectorIrina AktashevaHristo PiskovStarsPepa NikolovaAsen KisimovKiril GospodinovA freedom-loving young woman falls in love with a young ship builder worker. He recognizes she lacks stability in her life and decides to hire her on his team of workers. In the beginning, she is happy, but soon starts to feel the tensions between the workers on the team. She becomes disgusted by the mismatch between the official party line and the actual atmosphere at work. She sees the way everyone lies to themselves, and cannot ignore the hollow nature of party slogans their false pathos. The company manager, at first eager to use her as PR, wants her fired so he can restore order in the work team. Her boyfriend who hired her on the team resists firing her and argues with the boss over this decision. He proposes marriage to her, but she escapes so she can live life on her terms - with complete honesty and without compromise.
- DirectorAndrey KoulevStarsLinda RussevaEkaterina GeorgievaTanya ShahovaOnce you have stepped on a slippery road decisions are hard to take... In a labyrinth of memories and expectations a woman finds her way back to her only home - the child.
- DirectorDragomir SholevStarsTzvetan DaskalovSilvia GerinaIrena HristoskovaThis is a story of a family and two intruders.
- DirectorMaya VaptzarovaStarsKatya PaskalevaPetar PetrovIvan GrigorovFirst novel is "Five plus one". In a small provincial town the 65 year old Dancho wins 15 000 from the lottery. He decides to "buy some love". For the night with the sales girl at the grocery store, Angelina, the old man offers her the sum needed to get a car, a dream of hers and her husband. After some emotional struggle Angelina and her husband, agree. The "date" takes place. Angelina is humiliated. At the end, everyone receives what they wanted: the young family - a new car and the old man - a night spent with the prettiest girl in town. The second novel is "Illusive stories". The group of men is hunting. Only Ralcho kills a rabbit. The hunting party goes to his house to eat the rabbit. During the dinner, Ralcho realizes that his wife Efrosina is the object of desire of Detelin, the director of the local amateur theatre. According to the plot of the performance, Efrosina has to kill his lover, Detelin. Ralcho, pushed by his jealousy, loads the shotgun with a real bullet. The premier of the show is on. A moment before Efrosina carries out the death sentence, Ralcho yells out in the hall. Efrosina turns to him and accidentally shoots him in the leg.
- DirectorIvanka GrybchevaStarsStoycho MazgalovDjoko RosicPetar PetrovThe central character is emerging from his childhood and standing on the threshold of maturity. At 13 he is asked to make his first important choice: with which one of his parents (who are about to divorce) he wants to live. The answer is, 'With no one!' The film traces the life of the character which has led to this decision.
- DirectorLyudmil KirkovStarsMaria StefanovaElena RainovaMargarita PehlivanovaFriday night. On the weekend, five women will be able to think about themselves. Vera and her husband can't find their newly built apartment among identical panel blocks. Motsa and her husband make a winter profit from the Cooperative Market at the expense of humiliation. Tsetska is preparing for a meeting with another boyfriend. Catherine knows about her husband's infidelity. She came to terms with the idea that her youth was over. Something important happens to each of the five women, and, in fact, this is the natural course of life.
- DirectorVladimir YanchevStarsNaum ShopovKonstantin KotsevStoyan StoychevA tenement house needs to have steam heating installed. The residents find the necessary workers to do it, sign the contract and pay them in advance. The workers show up and start their job, but disappear immediately. Panic-stricken, the residents set up to search for them, only to find the workers in jail. Totally desperate, their only chance is to come up with an ingenious plan how to bring the work to the end.
- StarsDimitar GanevMoris AssaYevgeniya Bozhikova'The Hedgehogs' are a group of youngsters who are trying to gain control of the empty space between the blocks of flats, which they want to convert into a basketball court. The resistance of the neighbors is soon overcome and the court is laid down. Training courses in basketball for kids are set up. The ambitious coach is selecting only those of the boys who are able to carry out his most absurd orders. Two of them happen to be late, so he immediately fires them from the team. Thus the 'hedgehogs' war' against the indifference of the adult breaks out. The boys do not give up readily. They win the war through inventiveness, wit and with the help of the 'good guys' among the adults. But presently a rude pushy neighbor, who has no other concern but the safety of his expensive Ford car, returns from abroad. He wants to build a garage for his beloved car on the place taken up by the basketball court. A garage or a playground - this argument arises from the long-standing conflict between the pragmatic and artistic human spirits, between the lack-lustre world of philistine and the carefree world of the child. While the truck is unloading bricks and sand onto the court, the children are complaining (with some justice) to various administrative bodies. Eventually the hedgehogs lose the battle, but not the war. They are given another playground, but what is more, in their conflict with the adults they have acquired some of their ways, and learned how to load the dice.
- DirectorPetar B. VasilevStarsStefan DanailovVelko KynevAnton RadichevDanton, Petar and Andrey work together on the fifth floor of a socialist industrial research institute from the mid-eighties. They are good friends and share everything in their work and private life. Every morning when they come to work take turns watching with binoculars the aerobics exercises of a young girl in the building across the street. Suddenly, this routine of their is disturbed - there are rumors that one of them might have to be transferred to a partner institute in Japan. Who should that be? The three friends are now rival and undertake sophisticated underground maneuvers in order to get the prize. They put their friendship at stake. At the end, of course, it turns out everything has been in vain. The one to go to Japan is the director. At the very end, after the grotesque outcome, we can see the three friends together again with the binoculars, watching at the window.
- DirectorLiliana PenchevaStarsNikolai OuzounovVladimir NikolovSvetozar NedelchevA package accidentally dumped on the road ignites the imagination of a group of ten-year-olds. The little detectives believe that they have a dangerous criminal. They set up a trap, but unfortunately, it didn't work out as planned.
- DirectorPetar B. VasilevStarsGeorgi PartsalevSashka BratanovaValentin GadzhokovDimo Manchev is the head of a family with conservative concept of education and morality. Fearing his explicit ban, his daughter Lily secretly marries Plamen. The young couple is now wondering how to notify the father of their marriage. But eventually, life follows its own logical course and parents should resign.
- DirectorMilen NikolovStarsGeorgi PartsalevIvan KondovTatyana LolovaThe day that the financial clerk Metodi Rashkov is getting retired comes. He is a shy and quiet man and he accepts all tasks given to him by his son and daughter in law without argument. With time, he becomes a housekeeper; he shops, cooks and looks after his grandson. In order to save his face in front of his friends he lies to them and falls in a number of uncomfortable situations. The "Expolsion" becomes imminent. The reason is insignificant but with great consequences. Rashkov leaves his home. Soon the freedom which he wanted becomes boring for him. The abandoned family begins to miss the grandfather. At the end everyone sees their mistakes and is ready to fix them. The birth of a second grandson is the event which brings everyone under the same roof again.
- DirectorBinka ZhelyazkovaStarsGeorgi KaloyanchevGrigor VachkovIvan BratanovA large balloon suddenly appears above villages and fields and grabs the attention of the peasants. They start liking the sudden guest from nowhere for the beauty of the free existence. A policeman comes and the dreams of freedom vanish.
- DirectorRangel VulchanovStarsSlavka AnkovaEmiliya MyrynskaIvan StoychevThis is a story of lifetime. A story full of spiritual power biography, behind which stays a whole age in the national development of Bulgaria.
- DirectorNikola RudarovStarsAsen KisimovStefan DanailovAneta SotirovaA famous sports journalist visits his former classmate and close friend in the country. He is greeted by his friend's wife, who informs him that the master of the house will return tomorrow morning. While waiting for him, both sit down at the table. Meanwhile the provincial prejudices are in full swing - the curious neighbors spy through the fence. Although both of them are innocent, the situation gets more and more awkward.
- 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.
- DirectorBinka ZhelyazkovaStarsKosta TsonevYanina KashevaKliment DenchevThe story begins with a serious disillusionment experienced by a young girl at her school-leaving farewell ball. Apostol, an architect on this side of forty, meets by chance Bella at a swimming pool on the night of her graduation party. The generation gap is a wide one, but Bella falls sway to his intelligence, friends, his life-style and the respect everybody shows for her. Boyan is an actor and comic impersonator. The complex relationships among the three characters hover between friendship and love and involve certain professional motifs. The architect, an even-tempered man, is dispirited because the bold design decisions he has been taking have been regularly rejected. The overly playful actor surrounded by dummies and stage-pros, builds his life exclusively on outer effects. But deep inside he is sad because he knows that he has no real talent. Bella, unexpectedly mature for her age, cannot remain indifferent to the falsehoods and the indifferent attitude to life. She is in conflict with her own mother - a shallow television journalist. Bella's unconscious protest finds its real bearings only when she gets a glimpse of anti-fascist past of the architect who is already infatuated with her. At the end, she marries his best friend, Boyan, though Apostol would be the most important person in her lifetime. The film is notable for the vivid symbolism of its imagery. The swimming pool is not only the place of the action but also a metaphor of human life.
- DirectorMariana Evstatieva-BiolchevaStarsVeselin PrahovTodor TrankarovTzvetanka UzunovaThis film leads us into the atmosphere of childish life - games and the sweet taste of the cherries from the neighbor's cherry tree. What changes in a child's world when the boy meets injustice?
- DirectorIvan RossenovStarsKatya PaskalevaAnton RadichevStefan MavrodiyevThe head of a small railway station was taken to the hospital. His wife Maria was left alone for the first time. Ivan appears, who transforms her monotonous daily life and awakens love in her. She only has to take one step. But isn't it too late?
- DirectorBorislav PunchevStarsFilip TrifonovBoris LukanovNaum ShopovWorld War II. Diverse strata of society # politicians, artists, King Boris III himself # take part in the rescue action to save the resident Jews. Simultaneously, the film features the pains of these people, the horror of the concentration camps, of death. Yet, it is important that the 'Death Echelons' never moved from Bulgaria.
- DirectorIvan PavlovStarsMladen KiselovValcho KamarashevTzvetana ManevaValery works as an editor at a publishing house. There is a place with a higher salary available. His wife convinces him to talk to his friend, who is the head of the publishing house and take this place. Valery is a delicate person. Everyone is asking for a favor. He wants to help, but he doesn't know how. At home, his wife is constantly grumbling. A relative has arrived from the province and is also asking for a petition. Only when he tells a story to his children does Valery rest.