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- A large construction site brings together Mareto, who had an illegitimate child; Petko, an extramural student and Mantov, whose child is slowly dying of an incurable disease. Mareto and Petko are in love. Apprehensive lest she be abandoned because of the child, Mareto insists that their liaison should remain in a secret. Petko, who knows nothing of the previous affair, misunderstands it and breaks with his girlfriend. Mareto quits the site. Petko, having found out the truth, rushes after her and takes her come back from the railway station. They reunite in Mantov's home where Mantov and his wife are trying to overcome their anguish for the doomed child and prevent their relationship from falling apart.
- In the short but heroic campaign the Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev leads a band of rebels from the Danube to the Balkan Range.
- In the trial against Boris, Lazar is the main witness for the prosecution. The two are the comrades-in-arms. Now they are opponents, because of a conflict concerning a coal conveyor where they work. Lazar is afraid of taking risks. Boris, however, is not afraid of taking responsibility where innovation is at stake. The conflict ceases to be confined to production problems and grows into dispute over commitment to principle and ethics. After harrowing hesitations the main witness Lazar gives evidence in Boris's defense.
- The first novel is "The old man". A fascist concentration camp during the World War II. An old man, former partisan helper, carves the wooden toys for his little grandchild back home. The political prisoners love him. One day the order for the Old Man's release arrives in the camp. However, it only turns to be a cynical hoax on the part of the drunken commandant. The cruel truth overtakes the Old Man at the camp gate. The false order kills him. The second novel is "I Want to Live". The condemned to death antifascist resister escapes to safety. Police rush to look for him. The fugitive is nowhere to be found. Suddenly, he surrenders voluntary. What had made him to prefer death to survival? The rumors have been going among his comrades that he is a traitor. Even in a prison, he is looked upon with the same terrible suspicion... A month later, the death sentence is carried out.
- The action took place in the Rhodope Mountains in the early 20th c. Two young people are in love with each other and want to marry. The girl's father, however, objects to their plans and makes every effort to separate the couple. Without any grounds, he accuses the boy of committing a theft, and the young man is forced to become a fugitive and hide in the mountains. The girl is waiting for her lover, but to no avail. When coming back in two years, the boy gets to know that she is dead. He treats the entire village in local pub and then gets back to the mountains - this time to commit suicide.
- The autumn of 1944. In the small remote village hides the former police officer Starshiyata. He finds shelter with a young widow. Gradually his ruggedness makes way for desire for human closeness. Kolyo tries to convince the peasants to take part in the organization of the new life. The people scare because the Starshiyata is still among them. Kolyo decides to handle the situation. His friend Vasil ventures to the neighboring village to get rifles. At the same time, Kolyo follows Starshiyata, but the latter kills him. The peasants are shocked. Vasil distributes the rifles. The men soon discover and surround Starshiyata. A shootout begins. A bullet hits Starshiyata and he falls from a hill.
- A Girl is hitchhiking to the seaside. At nightfall, she sneaks in a gas station. The Boy who works there discovers her. The two begin a conversation. Through the gas station pass very different people. The boy and the Girl love theater and they act the balcony scene of "Romeo and Juliet". The Boy waits for his Chick and worries about the presence of the Girl. The Chick comes and demonstrates her new dress. Hiding, the hitchhiker watches their conversation. The Chick sees her, gets upset and leaves. The Girl says that the Chick is egoistic. The Boy and the Girl quarrel. She decides to go back home. The Boy convinced her to continue her journey to the seaside.
- The kid Kolyo dreams of traveling. One day he meets Bim-Bam who introduces himself as a writer and great traveler. The two build a cabin in a vineyard and live there. They meet different people; start working in the quarry. Time passes. One day someone tells Kolyo that Bim-Bam is no writer. He has stolen the furniture from a local community center. Bim Bam was gone. Kolyo leaves for home, trying to call Bim-Bam with their secret signal.
- The beginning of the 20th century. The young Nona comes back to her father's farm from Switzerland. She meets colonel Galchev. The officer expresses his love for her. The teacher Yosif who is in love with Nona organizes a revolt of the villagers with no property. Armed villagers rob the farm. Galchev and his soldiers arrive. During the shooting, the colonel is killed. Nona accuses Yosif of Galchev's death. The carriage of Nona's fiancé, who travels from Switzerland to the village, passes by the coffin with Galchev's body. A second after the fiancé enters her house Nona kills herself.
- The five-year-old kid Dimo must go to the kindergarten. He is not used to talking to the other kids and he has problems adjusting. His teacher gives him the task of taking care of aquarium. Dimo caused a flood, catches a old and stays at home for few days. Once day his parents take him to the zoo. His mother shows him the tiger cage and tells him that he looks as a little tiger. When Dimo goes back to the kindergarten, he makes a mess again, refuges to apologize and runs off. He walks around the streets of Sofia, plays on the swings in the park, goes to the distorted mirrors room, watches a soccer practice and becomes an unwilling participant in a TV show. The teachers in the kindergarten are worried about his disappearance. A search begins. Without suspecting anything, two young people take Dimo to a restaurant but have an accident on their way back. The young people run away and Dimo hides in telephone booth, from where he calls his house. His parents look for him with no success. On the next morning, the boy goes to the kindergarten and sees how a new kid is being enrolled.
- The action takes place during one day - 9.09.1944. This is the day when Bulgaria leaves the Axis coalition and joins Allies. The supporters of Germany are still fighting back. The partisan detachments are coming soon from the mountains. The film's young protagonist Mustafa is one of them. He will have to answer for himself important moral questions which the revolution asks of every man. He should decide for himself where exactly the boundary between justified and unjustified violence lies. This is the longest day in Mustafa's life - the day of his coming of age. On this day he experiences his first doubt. Mustafa remembers a night when they had orders to kill a political instigator but his friend Matey killed his child by mistake. Matey receives a light sentence but his guilty conscience makes him commit suicide. Another young boy joins the troupe and receives his name. He acts without questioning orders and without displaying doubt. One of his tasks is to carry out the execution of a group of arrested men after the coup. Mustafa is also there. He administers justice and feels himself unjustly punished by the death of his closest friend. On this same day he falls in love with the young partisan fighter Pshenichka and is separated from her because the enemy will shoot and kill him. The ending is a mournfully poetic - a ballad of the dark times the characters have lived.
- This is a warm-hearted, lyrical recollection of the period immediately before and after September 9, 1944, the date of the Socialist Revolution in Bulgaria. Against an atmosphere of general jubilation the film traces the short life of Tinko, a pure and altruistic idealist. The young revolutionary lives through a series of events in which the masses play a central role. We see a session of people's tribunal, a funeral rally, a meeting with Soviet soldiers. Tinko sees only the romantic side of this blend of joy, death and sorrow. Wherever he happens to be he wishes to play a leading role. With an adolescent selflessness and self-confidence verging on naïveté he preaches the high morality of the new civilization at mass rallies, he wants to lecture everyone he meets - his comrade-in-arms Iliykata, the petty bourgeois newly-weds at a wedding reception, the itinerant black-marketer impervious to change. Tinko is doing the best he can to serve the Revolution, but at the end he is killed. This character has gained a noteworthy place in Bulgarian cinema not so much as a revolutionary, but as an impersonation of pure revolutionary enthusiasm.
- This is a two-part film about the participation of the Bulgarian army in the Second World War. On the eve of September 9, 1944, insurgent masses liberate a large group of political prisoners from jail in Varna. Boyan Vasilev, the central character, is one of them. The joy of liberation, however, is overshadowed for him by the fact that his wife has not waited for him. He is dispatched to the front line as a political officer. In tracing his personal fate the authors have created an epic picture about the participation of Bulgarian army in the last stages of war and the final defeat of Nazi Germany on the battlefields of Yugoslavia and Hungary. Against the background of the impressive battle scenes the film focuses on the complex relationships between the numerous characters, reflecting the social and political contradiction in Bulgaria in the end of the war, we see former career officers who are attempting to sabotage the work of military command. There are also honest military officers who are experiencing an excruciating change of views (since 1941 till 9.09.1944 Bulgaria was on the side of union between Germany, Italy and Japan) and remain true to their patriotic duty.
- This is the first criminal television action filmed by the Bulgarian National Television. It consists of 10 episodes.
- The new industrial integration turns the cooperative farms in giant agrarian - industrial complexes. This decides the faith of a remote mountain village, which is gradually being abandoned. The people go to the plain, where the possibility of a new life attracts them. The hard steps of the forestry officer could be heard on the empty streets of the village. According to his list, there are only around ten people still residing here and he wants to keep them here at every cost. The head of the railway station leaves. The Gipsy who entertained everyone with his music also left. The remaining people are only the General, Gunchev, Spas and grandma Nedelya. Gradually they start to feel the doubt too; their looks turn to the plains. The forestry officer's mood gets gloomier, and he tries to convince them and himself that their lives continue not in the main stream. He has dedicated his whole life to the people. He has given up his sleep for them, and he has built the communal farm. The pain for the past closes his eyes for the future. There is only one way for the forestry officer - to the city.
- 1941. Yevgeny Milev is a young provincial doctor . The young apolitical surgeon specialized in Germany. During the spring morning walks, Yevgeny met several times with an unknown, mysterious girl, whom she could not forget. Thanks to the secret combination of his colleague, Yevgeny found this girl the most unexpected in his apartment. A young girl, Rositsa Eneva, is a leading regional communist functionary. She came with a purpose-surgeon Yevgeny , to save the life of a wounded partisan instructor from the Soviet Union. After the surgical intervention (performed with perfect precision), Rositsa can't stand it and gives free rein to her love feelings. Rositsa Eneva is trapped, wounded, and sentenced to death. Yevgeny manages to replace the death sentence of Rositsa Eneva with a life prison. Yevgeny met people from the resistance and helped them with medicines. He was discovered and sent to a concentration camp. Along the way, he managed to escape, becoming the doctor of the partisan detachment. The story reverses the fates of two lovers with the onslaught of the Red Army on the Eastern Front. Their love, which is impossible due to circumstances, becomes realistic again.
- There is a dragon, which threatens the life of the shacked village. The attempts of lumberjacks, shepherds and hunters to get rid of the menace are without success. Their battle with the imaginary mythical monster makes them realize that their real enemies are the master Kolota and his servants. The dragon is beaten not physically but spiritually.
- Absurd grotesque. A young couple dream of having a wardrobe. When they buy it the wardrobe begins to totally manipulate their life - it orders their deeds, sets their taste, enslaves them.
- During the working hours a man has died. In the scale of the large construction project, this fact remains unnoticed, but who is to blame for his death. The story deals with the thoughts that worry the head of a national construction project during his trip to the capital where he is urgently summoned. His thoughts and memories compose the puzzle of the large construction: meeting with people - from the common builders to the managers, working at the sites, the hardships.
- The intelligence officer Emil Boev is tracking a group of drug addicts, who were recruited by a foreign intelligence office. Among them is Boyan, the son of Emil's dead comrade. He should help the boy. He includes Boyan in the counterintelligence action plan. The faith of the young people is sealed - they should be eliminated as unwanted witnesses. They are given hot doses. Boev and Boyan discover the plot, but it is too late for some of the people. The deadly needle gets in the hand of the girl that Boyan loves. The foreign resident is captured. There is hardly anyone at the grave of the girl. Only Boev and Boyan come and listen the requiem.
- The 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.
- A divorce hearing is taking place in a courtroom. The witnesses are talking about the family of Dobri who for years travels from site to site. After the trial, Dobri goes back to the construction site. Because the transformers for the electricity have not arrived, the specialized electric installation team of Dobri will screw in light bulbs in the cafeteria. This becomes the reason for the discussion on the piled up problems due to the poor organization of the construction site. Dobri must resolve his life issue - to stay with his brigade or to go back to his family.
- The Five from the Labor Youth Union are among the leaders of the youth wing of the Bulgarian Communist Party during World War II. Their aim was to replace legitimate power with the dictatorship of the proletariat. The five are involved in numerous armed clashes with the gendarmes.
- The one day in the provincial city. The child is with peritonitis. Surgery is urgently needed, but parents are not given permission. Followed the complications and death of the child. Followed by a questionnaire and suspension of the doctor, guilty in the case.
- Near a large Bulgarian city begins the construction of a large factory. There is a fertile land in close by. Prof. Dimov, Director of the Environment Protection Institute has to submit his official approval for the civil works to begin. He and his co-worker Prof. Radev refuse. Their decision meets the resistance of the administrative director Dragiev. With intrigues and treats he makes the atmosphere around Radev unbearable. This along with the struggles of Dragiev for the Director's position upset Radev. Radev leaves the institute and his home without notifying anyone. The restoration of the truth is to come. The young scientist Balchev will find strength in himself to defend it. Hopefully it is not to late because Prof. Radev suffers a heart attack.