Anatoly lives with his mother near a coalmine. The miners come to eat in her pub at midday. Sometimes, when another drunk admirer starts kicking up a row outside the window, he protectively places himself in front of his mother. He’s unsure what he wants to do with his life, spends hours daydreaming on his bed or cycling through the fields. When he finds himself being swindled again by brisk Maragita at the market, all he can do is gaze at her from afar. But everything has its time, and at some point Anatoly takes the initiative. A quiet and touching tale of coming of age.
35mm | Farbe / colour
Iwan Wladimirow
Georgi Tschelebjew
Aleksandar Simeonow
Victor Andrejew
Nickolaj Madjarow
Dimitar Owtscharow, Stefka Janarowa
Lubomira Petrini
FRONT Film
7 V. Grigorovic St. Ap. 5
1606 Sofia
Bulgaria
frontfilm@abr.bg
Iwan Wladimirow - born 1967 in Pernik. After a year spent studying classical philology at “St. Kliment Ochridski” university in Sofia in 1995, he studied film and television directing at the Bulgaran National Academy of Theatre and Film, and graduated in 2001. From 1998 to 2006 he worked as an assistant director and screenwriter, and also directed television broadcasts and ad spots.
THE FUGITIVE (2000, short)
THE PIPE (2000, short)
VACKO MONEV (2001, doc)
IVORY COAST TOWER (2004, short)