February 1954. In the City of Sofia and its surrounding lands ten mass graves were discovered with over 500 dead bodies inside. The expertise revealed that the death was violent. The year of the massacre 1925. One of the graves, the one located near the Ilientsi barracks, contained a glass eye. The eye of the poet Geo Milev.
High in the mountains of Macedonia a team of young film makers are making a documentary about Katerina Vandeva - a descendant of an ancient and very famous family. Several former state and party functionaries interfere in the filmmaking in the hopes of manipulating Katerina's confessions for their own purposes. Nikola, the director, and his friends have to make the choice - whe...
There is a story of a youth who left his home in the Tryavna part of the Balkan Mountains to work at building sites in Turkey and Persia, of his spectacular career in Hollywood and his mysterious disappearance. The film is based on film archives from the Tryavna Museum, letters of emigrant workers from all over the world, as well as on American, Turkish and Persian newsreels.
In 1933 Eugeniu Botez, an engineer by profession and a commandant of the harbour of Sulina, wrote a novel. He entitled it 'Europolis' and signed it under the name of Jean Bart. A year later he died. In this strange novel Jean Bart prophecies that one day nothing will be left from the town, once full of life. With the death of Europolis Europe will be slowly dying in pains. A fe...
A talented theatre director has been expelled from the capital for two years. And he has been sent to a small provincial theatre where he wants to put a play that his thoughts are obsessed with. This play talks about people who are being constantly watched and are living in constant fear of punishment. Gradually, the nightmares of the play begin to move into the life of the tro...
Doctor Lubomir Kanov is a famous Bulgarian psychiatrist and a writer. When he was 33, he was arrested by the Bulgarian authorities and thrown into prison for anticommunist propaganda and because of his intention to leave illegally the country. Today, Dr. Kanov, in his own words, is a two-humped camel. In one of the humps he is carrying Bulgaria with all the sorrows and joys he ...