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- The picture features the life and deeds of Boris I - strong historic personality, which completes his mission to the full and at the end of his life receives holy orders. Prince Boris I is ruling in the late 9th century. In his youth, he, the brilliant statesman and diplomat, is experiencing heavy defeats in the wars he wages against his neighbors. Nonetheless, he manages not to cede any territories to the enemies. Under his rule, Bulgaria breaks with paganism and joins the Christian community, paying an exorbitant price, a heavy death toll, but there is no other way. The adoption of Christianity in 864 was a historical event of great significance. It guaranteed Boris I much need peace with the Eastern Roman Empire and allowed him to merge the numerous tribes inhabiting the country into a unified nationality and later to found a state. Boris I introduced the Slav script, thus turning Bulgaria into the cradle of Slav culture. Stiff resistance, however, met his actions. The former pagan, now Christian king was forced to crush it. Almost half of the then privileged aristocracy - 52 Bulgarian families - were mercilessly killed. Guided solely by his great ambitions Boris blinded and imprisoned his first-born son Vladimir-Rasate who dared against him and instead crowned his youngest son Simeon. It was during his reign that the Golden Age of Bulgarian culture began. This is an epic work dealing with the spiritual ups and downs of a nation and the drama of a great statesman.
- The action takes part from August 26 to September 9,1944 - the last days of the fascist regime in Bulgaria. At that time, following a decision made by the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, all-out preparations for an uprising are under way. The central characters are real historical figures representing two antagonistic camps. The film chronicles a series of dramatic events: secret underground meetings, actions of the combat groups and the partisans, strikes and mass rallies, the last attempts of the regime to hold on to power. The film recreates the atmosphere on the eve of the uprising, which culminated in the main thrust: the seizure of the Defense Ministry in Sofia on the night before September 9.
- The film deals with the Bulgarian tsar Ferdinand - a cosmopolitan by birth, who uses the national idea of the Bulgarians to satisfy his own vanity.
- This film is about the mission of the Bulgarian Battalion in Cambodia. This is the autumn of 1992. The Khmere Rouge were still not shooting at Bulgarian then. It was precisely eight days before the first death in the Battalion. A film is based on personal experience, in which the authors reveal an unknown life, with an attention to alien motives, with an attempt to explain things unacceptable at first sight.
- This film tells about the life and music of the composer Petar Dinev. He wrote Orthodox church music at the beginning of the 20th century.
- Georgi Markov is a Bulgarian writer, theater and film screenwriter, and later a publicist and dissident, who lived and worked in the conditions of socialist Bulgaria and emigration (from 1969 until his death in 1978). September 7, 1978. in London, an attempt was made against Markov, disguised as a street accident, where the writer was shot with a miniature poison shot.
- This is a film from the series "NATO armies through the eyes of a Bulgarian". The author is a Bulgarian who lives in Greece. He talks about the Greek army with understanding, but at the same time it is a story about the character of the Greek people.
- 'So we sleepwalked through this incongruous life, a life we were not made for. ' Various self-interests and private passion, oftentimes under foreign direction or influence, controlled the official history of a small country like Bulgaria. However, the hope and aspiration of the people seem to be most sincerely summed up by ordinary's people letters. The film is based on the fragments from the archives of prominent personalities of the past (like Ekaterina and Lora Karavelova)as well as those of quite ordinary women. The features of the documentary and the fiction have been combined in an attempt to recreate the atmosphere of an entire small world with its expectations, chimeras and disappointments.
- A series of the Army Audio Visual Center 'Stories of the Bulgarian Arms': the cutlers talk about their craft, about the traditions, which they preserve and try to modernize.
- Georgi Rakovsky is a Bulgarian revolutionary and revivalist. Rakovsky is the founder of the organized national revolutionary struggle for the liberation of Bulgaria, a revolutionary democrat, writer and poet, publicist, journalist, historian and ethnographer/ethnologist.
- A series of AAVC 'Stories of Bulgarian Arms': traditional Bulgarian knives are represented - robber's, shepherd's, bachelor's and women's knives created by craftsmen during the time of the Bulgarian Revival.
- The film tells about people on both sides of the border river, about prejudice, hatred and distrust.
- This film is one of a series of AAVC films about the NATO armed forces, seen through the eyes of a Bulgarian. He does not aim at describing the technical and organizational might of the Belgian Fleet, but tries to measure the striving toward the combat effectiveness with the measure of humaneness. Are those concepts compatible at all?
- The film deals with the Dobrudzhan issue, with the final agreement of 1940 for the return of Southern Dobruddzha to Bulgaria. The film features documentary footage and memoirs of the professor Sava Penkov, Konstantin and Nina Pomenovi - son and daughter of Svetoslav Pomenov-diplomat, participant in the Bulgarian delegation to the Kraiova Agreement, Anastasia Popova-daughter of Lieutenant General George Popov, as well as immigrants from Northern Dobrudzha.
- This film is an attempt to show the unique moral strength of the Bulgarians in the fierce Bulgarian-Romanian battle for the town Tutrakan at the river Danube during WWI. More than 8000 Bulgarian solders were killed but the battle sank into oblivion during the communist regime because Bulgarians, side by side with Germans and Turks, fought against the Russians in it.
- A murder has been committed. The murderer has to face his consciousness... An ass turns away from the path and fetuses to obey. The man 'smites his ass', not heeding about Fate's ominous warnings. And, like ancient Valaam, has to admit how blind he has been... But the murder has been committed. And the verdict does not matter... unless it is a man's own verdict on himself.
- Denmark and Bulgaria were the only countries in Europe that saved their Jews from the extermination in the Nazi concentrations camps. It is well known historical fact. The saved Jews live now in Israel and remembered their youth in Bulgaria. Their hearts are divided between two motherlands - Bulgaria and Israel.
- This film is one of a series of AAVC films about the NATO armed forces. It was filmed at 24th Tank Brigade in Braunschweig. German soldiers do not sleep at the barracks. They come at 5.45h and, after they have finished their daily duties - usually about 16.00h, they go home...
- This is a documentary drama about the spiritual choice of man and the religious clashes in modern Bulgaria between the Orthodox church and the representatives of presently the most criticized Christian movements and churches such as "Word of life", Plovdiv Protestant church "Emmanuel", "Jehovah Witnesses" and others.
- This film is one of a series of AAVC films about the NATO armed forces, seen through the eyes of a Bulgarian. He does not aim at describing the technical and organizational might of the Turkish Navy High School, but tries to measure the striving toward the combat effectiveness with the measure of humaneness.
- Teketo (tomb) is revered by the Alevis (also known as Alani). This is an ethno-religious group among Muslims who have their own customs and beliefs. They do not use the established Muslim rite, but honor the tombs of their saints. One of them is Demir Baba (The Iron Father).
- Few Bulgarians remember Kazimir Ernrott - a Finnish aristocrat and Prime Minister of the Principality of Bulgaria. The film is an attempt at an unbiased portrayal of one of the most contradictory figures that took part in the making of new Bulgarian state.
- Soon after the democratic CHANGE, the 'animals' from the newspaper 'zoo' found themselves in the 'jungle' of market relations. The bars of their 'cages' had collapsed quicker than the Berlin Wall. The inhabitants of the 'zoo' suddenly found themselves face to face with each other, 'tang' against 'tang', 'claws' against 'claws'. Some of them were fatter but clumsier. Others, lean and hungry, proved more agile. There was no more centralized supply of materials. The food sent from some more fertile 'jungles', were soon consumed, and nobody wanted to die. The 'zoo management' and the 'keepers' deftly slipped into the 'cages', locked themselves up and started inventing laws for the 'jungle'. The 'animals' took to surviving any way they could. A car was blown up... And then it looked like war...
- The Bulgarian emigrants who settled in Bessarabia were unlucky; they would become now part of the Russian Empire, now of Romania; now of the USSR, now would be split between Moldova and the Ukraine. And yet Bulgarian element has survived! The Bolgrad's Highschool itself, a beautiful building in the past, is now deserted, overgrown by weeds and with bruised walls. What we see is remain of past grandeur in the architecture and a thin thread of memory in souls of people.
- The film deals with Bulgaria between the two national catastrophes - the Bucharest peace treaty in 1913 and Noy treaty in 1919. What did Bulgaria lose in Bucharest and what in Noy? Why are the Balkans today what they are? The authors have united in unusual narrative old chronicles, voices from Bulgarian West frontier and dreams from Macedonia.
- This title combines four short documentaries, which tell about four generals-heroes of the wars of the Balkan Peninsula at the beginning of the 20th century.
- The great Bulgarian director tells in this film about the history of his country, using the events that took place on the central Sofia square. In the 30 years of the 20th century, there was a royal palace on this square. During the socialist period, the central place on the square was occupied by the mausoleum of Georgy Dimitrov. Festive demonstrations were held in front of the mausoleum, and party leaders looked at them from the rostrum.
- 19-year-old Borislav tries to analyze certain events, hushed up until now, from the history of Bulgarian's relations with the neighboring countries.
- Two young girls are friends and live together. Both Bulgarian women are in love with this Greek friend. But the love of one girl is shared, and the love of another girl is platonic.
- A film about the fate of a generation Bulgarian pilots who grew up with the dream to flight, surviving the hardships of a war and the tragic changes of communist peaceful times... About the value of human life and the adamant spirit of men.
- 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.
- A film is about a ranger from special 'seal' division of the US Marine Forces who took part in a NATO exercise in Bulgaria, about the dynamics of human relations, the transformation of distrust into affection, of suspicion - into partnership.
- Of course, we mean the Army trumpet, but not only that. There is also a Christian myth of the trumpet that will raise the dead on Judgement Day. Is there a more obvious connection between war and death than that? Man and army, soldier and war, fear and the killing of your likes - those are the energy-giving motifs of the film. A historian, a theologian, and an officer and a writer carry on their monologue contemplations in a never-ending argument. Nobody loves war. Why is then everyone willing to go when the trumpet calls at dawn?