След края на света (After The End of The World)

17:00
27 Oktober 2007
Europe on Screen 2007

Free ticket available 30 min before opening


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After The End of The World
Ivan Nichev, 1998, 104 min
Bulgaria. Drama. German with English subtitles.
A funny and woeful story, resembling an old Jewish anecdote, aiming to wrap a comical framework around the dark side of life.

Albert Cohen, an Israeli historian of the Byzantine period, flies to a professional conference in Bulgaria. Here he meets Araksi, an Armenian piano instructor and his first love from the days when Bulgarians, Jews, Armenians, Greeks, Romanians and Turks lived together peacefully in the southern Bulgarian town of Plovdiv.

During those distant days, the Orthodox Priest Isai, the Rabbi Ben David and the Mullah Ibrahim knew that they were praying to the same God. All three men of the cloth were also in love with the same woman, Zulfie, of Turkish extraction. This idyll was destroyed by the socialist regime. The Turks and Romanians were resettled elsewhere, the Jews left for Israel, and Araksi's family was detained after they tried to flee to Paris.

Despite the long years of separation, the relations between Albert and Araksi are still warm. But the landscape of their childhood remains locked in photos of Costas, an old Greek who still lives in Plovdiv. While Albert meets his old friends, a lawyer working for the mafia does everything possible to take control of Albert's old family home...

Ivan Nichev is a graduate of the Lodz Film School and is foremost among Bulgarian directors. His film moves between past and present, against the background of beautiful and picturesque Plovdiv. After the End of the World is a call for humanity and love-not out of naivete or a misunderstanding of reality, but from a deep and sincere sadness. Any thinking person understands that even the fall of communism cannot bring the beauty of those days. Shown at the Jerusalem Film Fest, July 1999, and made its US premiere at the SF Jewish FF in July 1999. Stars the leading Bulgarian actor Stefan Danailov. [picture: The BritishFilms Catalogue]

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