Movies: Valeri Petrov

A quite line in the capital city. A little girl, Veseto, slips out of home unnoticed, attracted by the voices of children playing in the yard. when the kids get tired of playing hide-and-seek, they scatter and Veseto sets out in a long stroll across ...

A film pioneer, Binka Zhelyazkova was at the forefront of political cinema under Bulgaria's Communist dictatorship. Though she remained faithful to the communist ideals she became an avid critic of the regime and brought upon herself the wrath of its...

Little Svetlio has taken the six plastic Indians in his crib and is struggling to sleep. Suddenly, a big Dog appears in the room and explains to Svetlio his mission - he has come to save him. Firstly, because he is a St. Bernard by nature. Svetlio go...

The first love between two very different characters is the prism through which we are shown the point of view of the film-makers who denounce war and plead for simple human happiness....

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 Lo...

One submarine fairy-tale, in which the matter is about surface things. Friendship, parting, hope... Words, which we have slightly forgotten in our days, but they are important – and this is why we would like to recollect them again. Little Lilly lis...

Impersonating a knight is one of the favorite games of nine-year-old protagonist. Now as Don Quixote, now as D'Artagnan he is fighting evil, he is searching for justice and defending the weak. Together with his friends, packed in cardboard armor, the...

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This is a sensitive film about human solidarity filled with humor and poetry; a bedridden man regales a child with a story about pirates while asking him to fetch some "pills"....

This film is a documentary portrait of the great Bulgarian Writer and poet Valeri Petrov....

In the 1920s several dozen political prisoners are exiled on a small island in the Black Sea awaiting sentencing. The old sea wolf and adventurer Kostadin (nicknamed Costa Rica) is planning an escape together with а carpenter named Zheko, an idealist...

Sofia, Bulgaria during World War II - Pesho, a poor boy from a working class family, falls in love with Violeta, a rich girl....

Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan remember their youth and adventures, long battles and amorous adventures, they feel sorry for their Captain de Treville and do not lose sight of their eternal enemy - the Cardinal....

On a bright day loudspeakers blare out choral songs which blend with the marches played by brass bands. A light plane scatters leaflets. Everybody stretch out their hands to catch the falling pieces of paper and look up smiling. Several leaflets fly ...

The sculptor Hristo spends years working on his masterpiece - an enormous metal construction, representing the spirit of a modern era. He lives far away from the noise and hassle, in a self-chosen exile by the sea. His difficult faith befalls Lote - ...

1945. Among the rubble from the Sofia bombardment a group of kids with the oldest one being 12, make secret plans for a sea voyage. As it should be done, the plans are devised in a gloomy basement of a destroyed building. The vow "Silence to the deat...

Stephan is a sculptor. He refuses to do work that compromises his integrity. He has a guardian angel he talks to. We can't see him but we can hear his voice commenting on events Stephan gets involved in. As he crosses paths with the Artist, the Profe...

Shooting of a picture: to those, familiar with only from the screen, it is a entertainment. So, in a quiet Sofia street, a shooting crew starts their work. Bypassing begin to throng, curious people are looking out of the windows of the surrounding b...

A lightning rod is guarding the house roof, but when the lightnings strike, it appears the rod if afraid of them....