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Director
Albena Mihaylova
Original idea
Albena Mihaylova
Producer
Reinhard Manz
Co Producer
Albena Kovatcheva
Production company
Point de Vue Audiovisuelle Produktionen
Director of photography
Reinhard Manz ...
Editor
Vesela Martschevski
IDF Events
2012 Ex Oriente Film
Planned premiere
March 2013
WWW
wwww.paraivyara.eu

Steam and Faith

Para i vyara, Bulgaria, 80 min, DCP, HD, Creative, Personal View

Synopsis Credits Languages Production IDF Events Photogallery

My brother Stilyan died almost at the same time as the human face of socialism. He committed suicide in the shadow of the Prague Spring. Was his suicide a political act or a family case? In the black and white photographs from his funeral, his body looks like a victim of the system. For 40 years, my mother has kept silent. Actually, she is the personification of the family’s past. She has fond memories but the most essential of her secrets stay well hidden. Under the mattress she sleeps on, two guns were hidden once. With one of them, my brother took his life. That night I was sleeping on that coach. Now my mother starts to talk – first about my grandfather, then about my uncle. The two of her relatives were antagonists. One of them became an engine driver of the Orient Express. The other one espoused a rather philosophical view and became an orthodox archbishop. Both were not spoken about in my family during the communist regime. Now my mother speaks about my father – his studies in the Soviet Union, his secret KGB connections, about the ideological differences between her husband and son after 1968. Mother and daughter set on a trip to the past to trace their family’s story, and to meet their relatives for a dialogue and forgiveness. The film story begins in Bulgaria after the iron curtain is raised, gets back to the Balkan history of the 20th century, and runs into the present day.

Director:

Albena Mihaylova

Producer:

Reinhard Manz

Original idea:

Albena Mihaylova

Editor:

Vesela Martschevski

Director of photography:

Albena Mihaylova, Reinhard Manz

Music:

Teodosii Spasov