Grigor Vachkov

Early 20th century. This is an era of seething passions, aspirations for freedom and national self-identification. Uprising are incited, blood is shed. The picture features national leaders who become heroes as early as in their lifetime. The protagonist is rank-and-file Macedonian who is unwittingly swept by the events. Later, it was his conscious choice. He was a witness of changes, crucial for the nation. He comes across legendary personalities. He gets enchanted and disappointed. He is seeking for the right answers, rethinks what he saw and experienced to tell his story in his simple, but candid and wise words of his own.

A study in human psychology that uses five disparate characters from clearly defined social positions, this film offers as much insight into the society of a changing Bulgaria, as it does into the minds of individuals in conflict. The story centers around transporting a worker's corpse, in a truck, to the mountain village where he was born. In the truck is: a man who may be suffering from tuberculosis, and who has an unfaithful wife at home; a doctor (the intellectual); a bookkeeper worried over the salaries she pays out; a hermit picked up on the road; and the driver who is a rough-and-ready working-class symbol. The seeds for conflict are set both by the personalities of the five in the truck and by their social background. The director Christo Christov, acknowledges his debt to Henri-Georges Clouzot and the Wages of Fear, for inspiration in the treatment of human conflict, its development through a set storyline, and its resolution in each of the five cases.

Pavel Pashev receives a package with three shrunk up apples - three vampire apples. According to the legend, he is doomed. Who sent the apple? For years, there has been a feud between Pavel and Kuzdo. Both of them are on age, when a man reflects on his past. Their conflict represents the different viewpoints of violence and freedom. Who is the sinner - the man who fought with honor for this world or the observer, the human register?

The young worker Pavlina and the student to be Vlado love each other. Vlado's father Parushev gets involved in their relationship. He is a director of the factory where the girl works. He sees a treat for the future and career of his son in that relationship. His fear of "unequal" marriage makes him exert psychological and moral pressure on Pavlina. Vlado has a weak character... Pavlina left alone to defend her love.

A tenement house needs to have steam heating installed. The residents find the necessary workers to do it, sign the contract and pay them in advance. The workers show up and start their job, but disappear immediately. Panic-stricken, the residents set up to search for them, only to find the workers in jail. Totally desperate, their only chance is to come up with an ingenious plan how to bring the work to the end.

1950s, Bulgaria. A man has been killed in a quiet little village.

The truck driver Kiril has a dream to build a house for his family. Is this a possible ambition in society of scarcity and envy.

There were times when stealing girls in these lands has been a worthy vocation, was a habit and a sort of custom in Bulgaria. Only the strongest and most experienced men took the profession up. A young and brave Bulgarian highlander was given the job to bring, no matter how, a certain beautiful girl to be married to somebody.

A family evacuates to the Bulgarian countryside during World War II

During the socialist regime in Bulgaria, the migration from villages to bigger towns brings a lot of problems and sadness to some of the party activists.

The poor and illiterate village worker Dimo is in love with his landlord's daughter and events take their course...

This film is a dramatic, colorful parable about migration from the countryside to the urban areas, revealing the deep-rooted attachment of the peasant Ivan Efreytorov to the patriarchal way of life.

At the end of 13th and the beginning of the 14th century twenty-four-years old, Prince Svetoslav Terter takes the helm of the state. The young Prince engages in a intricate political game, into getting his way by means of court intrigues, and is forced by circumstances. Svetoslav Terter is remarkably shrewd and consistent. He is perhaps the only head of state at this time to take the liberty of impeaching the primate of the country's church. He tries to rally the neighboring Slav people to a joint resistance to the Turkish conquest. Terter lives through a great personal tragedy. He becomes estranged from his dearest person, Mariya, who is too weak to join him on the difficult road of his choice. (written by Georgi Djulgerov)

A fishing boat comes back to the port. Fishermen are crestfallen, as they have caught only one very little fish. To save face, they fib they have 300 kilo of mackerel on board the boat. In their will to report a success, the port administration decides to pad out the weight. So, the very little fish is grossly exaggerated into tons of belted bonito, then into dolphin and ultimately, into a whale. Which results in celebrations, honors and awards... There, naturally, is no any whale. Instead of brilliant display of an unprecedented success, the white collars make a brilliant display of their unparalleled foolishness.

The upper class of the capital has been invited to a party. The guests discuss the retreat of the Germans on the Eastern Front. Havadzhieva, an attractive intellectual, recognizes that the interests of her class require action, not words.

In a white ward in a clinic a lifetime balance on the verge of death. Memories are herding together in the mind of seriously ill Aleksandrov, a scientist, who evaluates and reevaluates his own life: friendships, loves, career. Images of his youth are crowding in: of his beloved, of his children, of evenings, spent with his friends, ups and downs. And no one is able to say if all this made any difference.

A barrage balloon appears unexpectedly over a Bulgarian village during World War II. The startled villagers decide to knock it down with a fusillade yet the balloon flies off to the mountains. The villagers, armed to their teeth, set off after it. But they are not alone in this undertaking...

American filmmakers associated with the mafia are concerned about the great success of Bulgarian films around the world. They decided to send a big spy, Jesse James, to Bulgaria. His task is to blow up the film studios. But the Bulgarian inspector Lokum Shekerov is at his post.

A young boy (I. Spassov) gets his hand caught in a bridge beam on a hot summer day in this straightforward drama. As the water level rises in the river, people band together to try and save the boy before he drowns. He is comforted by his mother (G. Vachtov) and an army general (P. Slobokov), and the latter calls out the troops to save the lad from liquidation. This feature was the official Bulgarian entry at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival and is devoid of the usual 1960s propaganda associated with countries from the Eastern block of Europe.

History teacher and coin collector Karl Schneider wants to track down an ancient coin while on vacation in Bulgaria. When he meets a group of musicians, he finds out that their singer Jana Christova is wearing this coin around her neck. He falls in love with her, but the young love soon faces some unexpected troubles. His travel companion, the pop singer Theobald, accompanies the events with music.

Юморист Зарков передал главному редактору горящий фельетон и просьбу об отпуске. Начальник ненароком обменивается инициалами - говорит "да" на фельетон и "нет" на просьбу. Зарков уходит, не подозревая о недоразумении. Сатира на вымышленного персонажа Караиванова — «собирательный образ» бюрократа — воспринимается как реальный случай. Сотни караивановцев, занимающих важные посты, разоблачены и находятся под угрозой. Во главе с циничным адвокатом они спешат искать опровержение. В панике главный редактор отправил срочные поиски сатирика Заркова, беззаботно проводившего время со своей девушкой где-то на берегу Черного моря. А пока понятно, что фельетон очень понравился начальству "наверху". Когда разъяренные Караивановы вторгаются в комнату Заркова, их заваливают тысячами писем благодарных читателей…

The struggles of a captured partisan to escape

Последние дни Второй мировой войны в Югославии. Болгарское моторизованное подразделение из десяти человек на пяти грузовиках отправляется в трудный, полный опасности путь, чтобы доставить боеприпасы на важный стратегический путь. Некоторые из десяти уверены в окончательной победе, другие колеблются, не верят в новую жизнь. Но все они не хотят войны и готовы в любую минуту пойти в бой. О том, какие трудности пришлось им перенести, как геройски погибли некоторые из них и как остальные выполнили ответственное задание, рассказывает фильм.

The new supervisor Vasil arrives at the construction site of a dam. Vasil has problems with his men, who mistrust him and reluctantly submit to his perfectionism. He becomes involved with the refreshment bar attendant Lilyana. Vasil, who always wanted children, cannot abandon his childless wife and breaks with Lilyana. When four workers are buried in a tunnel landslide, Vasil makes his way to them and manages to drag them all out, except for Zlatan, a spiteful egocentric, whose legs are caught under a fallen prop. Zlatan begs Vasil to save him, even if it means cutting of his legs. To release the miner's legs Vasil cuts the prop, which is also supporting the roof of the tunnel. Zlatan is rescued. However, Vasil is killed. Since then, the workers say his steps can be heard bellow the dam wall.

О жизни и борьбе болгарской молодежи против гитлеровских захватчиков в годы Второй мировой войны. …Тупик на одной из окраин Софии. В маленьком убогом домике живут два друга — философ Пётр и студент-ветеринар Йошка. По заданию подпольной организации Пётр взрывает немецкие бензобаки. Йошка спасает своего раненого друга, и сам гибнет в борьбе с фашистами.

1941 год. Фашистская Германия напала на Советский Союз, куда ещё в 1920-х годах бежал рабочий-революционер болгарин Стоилов. О его судьбе семья, оставшаяся в Болгарии, ничего не знает. Два сына Стоилова совершенно разные люди: Кирил пошёл по следам отца и активно включился в революционную борьбу патриотов, а Владко пытался остаться в стороне от борьбы и за свои иллюзии заплатил собственной жизнью.

О любви немецкого солдата к еврейской девушке Рут, угоняемой фашистами в лагерь смерти, о любви, которая заставила юношу пересмотреть свои взгляды на жизнь и вступить в ряды борцов против фашизма.

An enormous egg is found in a village near Sofia.