From radev@tangra.cs.columbia.edu Mon Jul 22 19:04:35 1996 Received: from cs.columbia.edu (root@cs.columbia.edu [128.59.10.13]) by opus.cs.columbia.edu (8.7.5/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA05061 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 19:04:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tangra.cs.columbia.edu (tangra.cs.columbia.edu [128.59.30.17]) by cs.columbia.edu (8.7.5/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA00533 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 19:04:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from radev@localhost) by tangra.cs.columbia.edu (8.7.4/8.7.3) id TAA26313 for radev@cs; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 19:04:04 -0400 From: "Dragomir R. Radev" Message-Id: <199607222304.TAA26313@tangra.cs.columbia.edu> Subject: no subject (file transmission) To: radev@opus.cs.columbia.edu Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 19:04:04 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text Status: RO BULGARIAN FILMS A Woman of 33/Edna zhena na 33 Director: Hristo Hristov. DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (102 min.):sd., color; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1984 motion picture. In Bulgarian with no English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Script: Boyan Papazov, DP Atanas Tassev, set Yordanka Peycheva, Nusic Kiril Tsibulka. Cast: Lilyana Kovacheva, Bogdan Glishev, Vesselin Vulkov, Gergana Buirdarova, Pavel Spassov. . Summary: The protagonist is a single mother who works as a secretary at a University, while struggling to complete her studies. One of the first movies from Eastern Europe to tackle the issue of sexual harassment. THe situation is made even more tense due to the backdrop of ideological oppression. The film was banned after its release in 1984. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova A World In-between/ Mezhdinen svyat Director: Roumiana Petkova. 1995. Production of Panaef, National Film Center, Bulgarian National TV, with the participation of the French National Film Center, Ministry of Culture and Ministry of External Affairs of France. 55 min. Color. Credits: Script Vassil Zhivkov. Camera Svetla Ganeva. Director Roumyana Petkova. Consultant Antonina Zhelyazkova. Summary: Shot in the Rhodopi mountains the film depicts the lifestyles of the Pomaks, ethnic Bulgarians who confess the Muslim faith. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova All is Love/ Vsichko e lyubov Director: Borislav Sharaliev. DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (93 min.):sd., color; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1979 motion picture. In Bulgarian with no English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Script: Boyan Papazov. Set Georgi Ivanov. Music Vesselin Nikolov. Cast: Yanina Kasheva, Ivan Ivanov, Maria Stefanova, Vulcho Kamarashev. Summary: The protagonist is a juvenile delinquent who lives in a boarding school. He falls in love with a young girl from a well placed family. The girl gets pregnant, and is made to have an abortion by her mother, since the protagonist is not "the right guy" for her. The movie is about the social cynicism in the socialist society that is egalitarian only on the surface. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova The Attached Balloon/ Privarzaniyat balon Director: Binka Zhelyazkova. DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (98 min.):sd., b&w; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1967 motion picture. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Based on Iordan Radichkov's story "Attempt to fly." Credits: DP Emil Vagenstein, Music: Simeon Pironkov. Cast: Grigor Vachkov, Ivan Bratanov, George Kaloyanchev, Georgi Georgiev-Getz. Konstantin Kotsev, Georgi Partsalev. Summary: Finished in 1966 it was not released until a year later - and then only briefly. The high -water mark of the 1960s, this extraordinary story began as an absurd fantasy in print, then was adapted by the author and the director into an equally imaginative "modern fairy tale" for the screen, and finally into a successful stage production under its original title - a full decade after its release. Its moral: what happens when village peasants are offered the opportunity to fly off in a big balloon in the middle of Stalinist era (R. Holloway). Personal collection of Dina Iordanova Avantazh Director: Gerogi Dyulgerov 1979. 135 min. Boyana Studios. Cast: Russi Chanev, Dimitar Ganev, Mariana Dimitrova, Radosveta Spassova. Summary: This is the story of a petty criminal called "The Rosster," set in the reality of the 1950s. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova Band With No Name/Orkestar Bez Ime Director: Lyudmil Kirkov. Boyana Studios, 1985?. 117 minutes. NTSC format, VHS. In Bugarian with no English translation. Color. Cast: Velko Kanev, Pavel Poppandov, George Mamalev, Maria kavardzhikova, Philip Trifonov, Katerina Evro. Script: Stanislav Stratiev. Camera: Victor Chichov. Music: Boris karadimchev. Summary: This is the story of the guys from a band from a small provincial Bulgarian town who undertake to conquer the music scene of the entertainment centers of the Bulgarian black sea cost. They have to take a good looking singer with no voice and to sacrifice their own good singer. A comedy. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova Bay Ganyo Goes to Europe/Bai Ganyo trugna po Evropa Director: Ivan Nichev. PUBLISHED: (California): Distributed by Visual Creations, (199-?) DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (90 min.) sd., b&w; 1/2 in. SERIES: Bulgarski igralen film. NOTES: In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Credits: Directed by Ivan Nechev; written by Marko Stoychev, based on the Bulgarian classic novel by Aleko Konstantinov. Cast: Georgi Kaloyanchev, Stoyan Alexiev. Summary: Funny stories about a Bulgarian merchant at the end of 19th century, when some Bulgarians first start traveling abroad after years of isolation in the Ottoman empire. A classic satire of Balkan mentality. VIDCASS 4674 UGL Audio Visual Collection Burn, Burn, Little flame/ Gori, gori, oganche Director: Rumyana Petkova DESCRIPTION: 2 videocassette (240 min.):sd., color; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1994 motion picture. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Production "Panaeff". VHS/PAL format. Script Malina Tomova. DP Svetla Ganeva. Cast: Ivan Ivanov. Summary: The film is set in the region of Rhodopi mountains in the 60s and 70s of 20th century and shows the patriarchal isolation of the fictional village of Mogla, and its population of pomaks - an group of ethnic Bulgarian Muslims. A young teacher volunteers to work in the village and becomes a witness of the oppression to which the members of the minority are subjected. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova The Canary Season/ Sezonat na kanarchetata Director: Evgeni Mikhailov. DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (135 min.):sd., color; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1993 motion picture. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Credits: Script Nikolay Vulchinov, DP Eli Yonova, Musci Kiril Donchev, editor Maya Daskalova, art director Boris Neshev, costums Elena Demyakova and Vladislav Schmidt. Cast: Parashkeva Dzhukelova, Plamena Getova, Mikael Donchev, Petar Popoyordanov, Nevena Kokanova. Summary: Lili is a single mother whose 20 year-old son confronts her, requesting to know the identity of his father. A battered mother, she accepts the challenge and gradually tells him the story of her terrible ordeal, which the filmmakers narrate with flashbacks to Lili's past. In the flashbacks, set the 1950s, Lili becomes the rape victim of a Comsomol activist, is forced to marry him, and is subsequently exposed to all sorts of humiliations. She is sent to a concentration camp, where she witnesses the myriad horrors of communist "correction" efforts. Eventually she is locked up in a mental hospital where the guards subject her to sexual advances. Finally released, Lili comes to the conclusion that most of her fellow citizens have become servants of the system that destroyed her life. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova Dream Hunters/ Lovci na mechti Director: . DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (80 min.):sd., color; 1/2 in. NOTES: A documentary.Videorelease of the original 1985 picture. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Summary: A documentary that tells the story of some heroic Bulgarian mountain climbers in the Himalayan mountains. One of them conquers Mount Everest, but then is lost and never found. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova Home for Tender Souls/ Dom za nezhni dushi Director: Evgeni Mikhailov. DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (78 min.):sd., color; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1983 motion picture. In Bulgarian with no English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Credits: script Boyan Papazov, DP Eli Yonova, Set Vyacheslav Parlapanov, Music Bozhidar Petkov. Cast: Plamena Getova, Tsvetana Denkova, Kiriakos Argiropoulos, Nikolay Velichkov. Summary: Set in a provincial Bulgarian town in the 1970s, gives a sympathetic account of the life of theater actors. "A lonely woman engaged as an actress in a theater in the provinces cannot come to grips with herself even when an opportunity comes along to play a lead role (a saint who walks on coals). Throughout much of the film a play on satirist Aleko Konstantinov is performed in the background, thus broadening the scope of the story and adding depth to the performance of Plamena Getova in the lead role."(Holloway) Personal collection of Dina Iordanova The Goats' Horn/Koziat rog Director: Metodi Andonov. 1972 . Boyana studios. 95 min. Black and whote. VHS/NTSC. In BUlgarian with no translation. Music Maria Neykova. Cast: Anton Gorchev, Katya Paskaleva, Milen Penev, Kliment Denchev, Stefan Mavrodiev. Summary: Set during the days of Turkish dominance, it is a tale of vengeance. A goat herder whose wife has been raped and had then died of suffocation takes to the mountains until he manages to kill the rapists one by one. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova Hotel Central/ Hotel Central Director: Vessselin Branev. DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (105 min.):sd., color; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1986 motion picture. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS format. Credits: Based on Konstantin Konstantinov. DP:Yatzek Todorov, set Anastas Yanakie, Music Bozhidar Petkov. Cast: Iren Krivoshieva, Reneta Dralcheva, Zhivko Garvanov, Valentin Gadjokov, Boris Lukanov, Anton Radichev, Boryana Puncheva . Summary: Set in a provincial Bulgarian town in the 1930s. Tinka, the protagonist, is interned there by the authorities and placed to work in a hotel. She gradually sinks in prostitution, but eventually finds the strength to overcome her situation, and to leave the town, looking for new opportunities in her life. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova I, The Countess/ Az, grafinyata Director: Petar Popzlatev. PUBLISHED: International Film Circle. DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (118 min.):sd., color; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1989 motion picture. In Bulgarian with English subtitles.. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. -Videocassette label. VHS format. Credits: Director, Petar Popzlatev; script, Raymond Vagenstein and Petar Popzlatev; director of photography, Emil Hristov; music, Georgi Genkov; art director Georgi Todorov. Cast: Svetlana Yancheva, Itzak Fintsi, Petar Popyordanov, Katya Paskaleva, Valcho Kamarashev, Joreta Nikolova, Ilia Dobrev, Samuel Fintsi, Iren Krivoshieva . Summary: Sybilla, "The Countess", turns 18 in 1968, a time of political turmoil, youthful rebellion, and sexual revolution. After being caught in attempt to defect and jailed, she turns to drugs, and eventually faces a difficult fate. "The Countess" is a film about alienation: the crumbling of human relations, the impossibility of contact with society, family, friends. It draws broad social and moral conclusions about the fate of an unconventional and colorful personality opposed to the drabness of thought and life. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova Last Wishes/Posledni Zhelania Director: Rangel Vulchanov This film depicts the spirit of the Balkan wars. In BUlgarian with English subtitles. Cast: Diana Sofronieva. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova The Love Summer of a Loser/ Lyubovnoto lyato na edin lyokhman Director: Lyudmil Todorov. DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (80 min.):sd., color; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1989 motion picture. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Cast: Petar Popyordanov . Summary: A lyrical account of the summer adventures of four friends who take their vacation on the Black sea shore, one of whom is extremely sensitive and commits suicide at the end. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova Manly Times/ Mazhki vremena Director: Eduard Zakhariev. DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (80 min.):sd., b&w; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1982 motion picture. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Based on Nikolai Haitov's story. Cast: Grigor Vachkov, Marianna Dimitrova, Velko Kunev, Pavel Popandov. Summary: A tale set in the region of Rhodopi mountains in late 19th century. A young woman is kidnapped and forced to marry a man she does not like. During the ordeal of the abduction she falls in love with her kidnapper and eventually escapes with him. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova Margarit and Margirita/Margarit i Margarita Director: Nikolay Volev Boyana Studios, 1989. 92 minutes. NTSC format, VHS. In Bugarian with no English translation. Color. Award of the critics at the Sofia Film Festival in 1990. Credits: Script Nikolay Volev, based on idea by Aleksander Tomov, dialogue Marin Damyanov. Camera: Krassimir Kostov. Sets: Ivan Andreev. Cast: Christo Shopov, irini Zhambona, Rashko Mladenov, Vassil Mikhaylov, Ilia Raev, Maya Tomova, Tanya Shakhova. Summary: This is the story of victimization and desperate rebellion under communism. The young couple of Margarit and Margarita struggle for their love, but the battle ultimately destroys them when a communist functionary gets interested in Margarita. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova Measure for Measure/ Mera spored mera Director Georgi Dyulgerov 1980 . Bulgariafilm. Suvremenik Film Unit . 4 series, 300 minutes. Color. In Bulgarian and Macedonian with NO translation.Cast Russi Chanev, Stefan Mavrodiev, Grigor Vachkov, Katya Ivanova, Tsvetana Maneva, Rpoumena Trifonova. Summary: The struggles of the Bulgarians in Macedonia against Ottoman bondage from 1903 -1908. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova Milcho Leviev - A Life in 33/12 Director: . DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (80 min.):sd., color; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1988 documentary motion picture. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Summary: A documentary about Bulgarian American jazz musician Milcho Leviev. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova And Now-- Where To? /A sega- nakade? Director Rangel Vulchanov 1989. The story of a group of acting students, who have to make decisions about their further life. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova The Patent Leather Shoes of the Unknown Soldier /Lachenite obuvki na neznayniya voyn Director: Rangel Vulchanov. DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (109 min.):sd., b&w; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1979 motion picture. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Script Rangel Vulchanov, DP Radoslav Spassov set Georgi Todorov. Music Kiril Donchev. Cast Borislav Tsankov, Slavka Ankova, Ivan Stoychkov, Emilia Marinska, Nikolay Velichkov. Summary: The film opens with the change of the guard in front of the Buckingham palace, but then switches to a village in the Balkans. The filmmaker recalls his childhood, and his 100 relatives. The events in the film take place between the World Wars, and are centered around the wedding of the Black Little Uncle, and the story is told from the point of view of a child. "After waiting some fifteen years to film his own screenplay, Rangel Vulchanov made one of the endearing productions in Bulgarian cinema. This lyrical poem on a fading peasant culture and the irretrievable past - back to the turn of the century - features nonprofessionals in the leading roles." (R. Holloway). Personal collection of Dina Iordanova The Peach Thief/ Kradetsat na praskovi Director: Vulo Radev DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (103 min.):sd., b&w; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1964 motion picture. In Bulgarian with no English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Based on a story by Emilan Stanev. DP Todor Stoyanov, set Nedelcho Nanev, nusic Simeon Pironkov. Cast: Nevena Kokanova, Rade Markovic, Mihail Mikhailov, Vassil Vachev, Naum Shopov. Summary: During the Balkan wars at the beginning of the century, a Serb prisoner of war has an affair with the wife of the camp commander's, and dies tragically. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova Pieces of Love/ Parcheta lyubov Director: Ivan Cherkelov. DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (80 min.):sd., b&w; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1989 motion picture. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Cast: Ivailo Hristov, Joreta Nikolova, Samuil Fintsi. Summary: A group of young people in the last years of communist rule are involved in affairs with each other. Grim reality of late communism. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova The Sparrows of the Human Race/ Vrabchetata na choveshkata rasa Director: Boyan Papazov. DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (20 min.):sd., color; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1982 documentary picture. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Based on Nikolai Haitov's story. Summary: A documentary featuring the lifestyles of Bulgarian gypsies. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova Time of Violence/ Vreme na Nasilie Director: Lyudmil Staykov. DESCRIPTION: 2 videocassettes (150 min.):sd., color; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1985 motion picture. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Script: Anton Donchev, based on his novel "Time of Parting." Cast: Iossif Surchadzhiev, Vassil Mikhailov, Kalina Popova, Momchil Karamitev, Konstantin Kotsev, Anya Pencheva, Stefka Berova. Summary: Set in the 17th century in the region of Rhodopi mountains. The movie presents the forcible conversion of the local Christian population into Islam, an operation led by the yanissari Karaibrahim, originally a Slav from the same region who now stands against his own people, brother and father. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova The Well /Kladenetsat Director: Docho Bodzhakov. DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (130 min.):sd., color; 1/2 in. NOTES: Videorelease of the original 1990 motion picture. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. Production Bulgaria film. Boyana Studios. VHS/NTSC format. Script: Docho Bodzhakov. Cast: Vanya Tzvetkova, Lyuben Chatalov, Petar Popyordanov. Summary: A village teacher, a young widow is forced to raise her daughter alone in 1940s. Angel, the communist leader who was responsible for the death of Maria's husband, is also a single parent, raising a son. Angel brutally rapes Maria, and over time continues forcing her to have sex with him, until finally she commits suicide. Angel takes Maria's wretched daughter to an orphanage in town. Ten years later Daria, the daughter, returns to the village. She does not come of her own free will, but as a juvenile delinquent interned by the militia. Daria looks so much like her mother that Angel, understanding who she is, feels strongly attracted to her. Soon she falls victim to the sexual appetites of Angel. Daria, meanwhile, feels genuinely in love with Ivan, Angel's son, although their affair remains purley platonic while by night Daria endures the unsavory caresses of Ivan's father. Thus, the amoral promiscuity of Angel destroys not only the mother, but the daughter as well, further compounded by the tragedy of the son. After Daria attempts suicide, Angel decides she is a troublemaker and has the militia take her away. Ivan makes a last attempt to keep her in the village, but in vain. Daria is carried away, passive and non-resistant, into a future that promises more grim ordeals. Personal collection of Dina Iordanova