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Bulgarian Movie Nights
Featured presentation:
Warming Up
Yesterday's Lunch
AKA: Podgriavane na vcherashniat obed
Date: April 9, 2005
Time: 5:00 PM
Place:
MIT Campus, Room: 1-190
Language: English
Cover charge: No |
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Director: Kostadin Bonev
Script: Mile Nedelkovski
Director of photography: Kontantin Zankov
Music: Nikolay Ivanov
Producer: Galina Toneva, Kiril Kirilov
Production: Gala Film - Sofia, Digitiprop - Skopje,
Ministry of Culture of Macedonia, BNT and Boyana Film
Company - Sofia
Cast: Svetlana Yancheva, Biliana Kazakova, Snejina
Petrova, Roussi Chanev, Atanas Atanassov, Galin Stoev,
Dossio Dossev
Academy Awards: USA 2003 (Foreign Film Submission)
Festivals (Prizes): Varna 2002 - Special Jury Prize;
Best Screenplay; Actress: Svetlana Yancheva;
Young Actress: Bilyana Kazakova; Palm Springs 2003,
Sofia IFF 2003, Istanbul 2003, Moscow IFF 2003, Karlovy
Vary 2003; Montreal World FF 2003, Quebec IFF 2003,
Hamburg 2003, Calgary IFF 2003
Synopsis: Republic of Macedonia after the disintegration
of communist Yugoslavia. A woman has decided to speak
out after forty years of keeping silence. The revealing
of secrets, which have been kept very carefully for such
a long time, stirs commotion among the powers that be.
And they decide to take actions. Warming up Yesterday's
Lunch is a film about events in which the line between
characters that refuse to accept this fact are destined
to pay a high price.
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Enjoy a night with Bulgarian movies.
Come and laugh with Toshko Kolev and his classics "Opasen
Char"! Remember the glory of
ancient Bulgaria with the epic "Velichieto na
Hana" and invite your friends to share some of the greatest
moments of our history.
Any
volunteer contributions at the shows will help Plamena
see the world again. Thank you!
March
14 2004, 5.30 pm
MIT campus, Room 54-100
Directions
Featured Presentation: Opasen
Char (Dangerous Charm)
Language: Bulgarian
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April 04 2004, 5.30
pm
MIT campus, Building 1-Room 190
Directions
Featured Presentation: Velichieto na Hana
(The
Glory of Khan)
Language: English
Cover charge: No |
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March 14 Featured Presentation: Opasen Char
(Dangerous Charm)
Comedy - 1984
NTSC/VHS Color, 90min.
Language: Bulgarian
Director: Ivan Andonov
Written: Svoboda Bachvarova
Cast: Todor Kolev, Nevena Kokanova, Stefan Mavrodiyev,
Lyuben Chatalov, Georgi Rusev, Tatyana Lolova, Nadya
Todorova, Tzvetana Maneva, Margarita Karamiteva, Peter
Slabakov, Petar Petrov, Polina Dorostolska
He 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.
April 18 Featured Presentation: Velichieto na Hana
(The Glory of Khan)
Drama/History - 1984
VHS/NTSC, Color, 92 min.
Language - English
Bulgarian Subtitles
Directed: Liudmil Staikov
Written: Vera Mutafchieva
Director of Photography: Boris Yanakiev
Music: Simeon Peev
Starring: Stoiko Peev, Vasil Mihailov, Antonii Genov,
Vania Tsvetkova, Peter Slabakov, Stefan Getzov, Yosif
Surtchadjiev, Ania Pencheva, Joko RositchIn
651 C.E. Khan Kubrat died and the Khazars accelerated
their raids upon Great Bulgaria. His five sons split the
Bulgarian tribe and each led his to find new land where
they could live in peace. Khan Asparukh, the youngest
son, went west and, after an arduous journey lasting for
years, southward across the River Danube, into Moesia.
In 680-81, in alliance with the Slavs, he inflicted
tunning defeats on the Roman legions and forced the
Byzantine Empire to recognize the formation of the new
state of Bulgaria in the lands where it still exists
today.
A spectacular epic, "Khan Asparukh" was made
to celebrate the 1,300th anniversary of the founding of
Bulgaria. This edited version compresses the three-part
film from almost 6 hours to 95 minutes. Sumptuously
filmed, with over 50,000 extras, the film narrates the
history of these momentous events, from the fall of
Great Bulgaria in the Asian steppes, through Asparukh's
perilous trek west, and the decisive battles with the
Byzantines. The original film was seen by over 11
million Bulgarians, a stunning feat for a population of
less than 8 million!
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