Cinema
Under the Old Sky
Под старото небе
Nikolay Larin · 1922
Synopsis
The film follows Tsanko Tserkovski's peasant play, and it is through the play that its plot is known. In a Bulgarian village, two generations clash. Old Stanko watches over the common property; young Goran, careless of what belongs to others, loves his daughter Sevdana, while Kantcho, his rival, sides with the old man. Between the father's attachment to the community and the young man's taste for his freedom, the love of the two young people is caught in the conflict.
Context
The film is based on the play that the writer Tsanko Tserkovski, then a minister in the Agrarian government, had had staged at the National Theatre in 1919; the author supported the shooting and wrote the screenplay. His daughter Sevdalina, who would marry the director, appears in the film. The premiere took place in December 1922 at the Moderen Teatar in Sofia, before the leaders of the Agrarian Union. The film was later lost; according to a testimony reported by the Bulgarian press, the print was taken abroad.
Who it is for
A silent village drama of which no copy is known today; nothing has been found in French on the film.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as the most remarkable of the films to come out of its author's school; the press of the day gave it one of the country's first film reviews.
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