A military satire inspired by wild real-life events from the 1990s when, in the chaotic aftermath of the fall of communism, a task force comprised of high-ranking Bulgarian army officers and psychics embarked on a top-secret military operation in the small village of Tsarichina to dig up an elusive alien artifact that would change the course of history and make Bulgaria great again.
Alexander returns to Bulgaria from Denmark for his mother's funeral. Instead of confronting his estranged relatives, he embarks on a journey across Sofia with his sister, Kalina. Together, they wander through the city, possibly in search of their long-absent father. Along the way, through chance encounters with old friends and visits to cherished spots from their past, the siblings rediscover the closeness they once shared.
Smart, angry, self-reliant Dida will stop at nothing to achieve a single tangible goal – to buy a plane ticket so she can join her estranged mother in the United States.
Vasil has just lost his long-time partner in life, his wife Ivanka. When a woman at her funeral proclaims that the dead woman called her cellphone, Vasil seeks out the help of a well-known psychic in order to try to contact his wife. His son Pavel tries to bring him to his senses, but Vasil stubbornly insists on doing things his own way… Following the internationally successful The Lesson and Glory, Grozeva and Valchanov return with an intimate family drama about the difficulties of connecting with those close to us. As the picture slowly gathers momentum, its story unfolds many of the carefully arranged absurd or comic situations typical for the Bulgarian filmmaking duo.
When Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker, finds millions of lev on the train tracks, he decides to turn the entire amount over to the police. Grateful, the state rewards him with a new wristwatch… which soon stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, the head of PR for the Ministry of Transport, loses his old watch. Here starts Petrov’s desperate struggle to get back not only his old watch, but his dignity.
A pair of rebellious high school students get thrown out of home and school, then drift from job to job. Bulgaria's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990
Two eternal opposing theses - play is our life or life is our play - are the base of music, dance and verse which fit together in this film.
Born in Sofia, she graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) "Krastyo Sarafov" in 1982, specializing in dramatic acting under the tutelage of Professor Nikolay Lyutskanov and Margarita Mladenova. In 2018, her play "Five", in which she plays a key role, won the New Bulgarian University’s competition for a new play.
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