Movies: Georgi Djulgerov

Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavriuk, offers a deal, enticing Petro into crime for ...

A tragic comedy about an orphan girl who knows nothing better than the animal way but at the end comes to realize her only chance - to be human....

This is a film about the fate of a group of students and their wondering to find their true place in life. Of course each of them tries to find his own way....

Advantage (Bulgarian: Авантаж, translit. Avantazh) is a 1977 Bulgarian drama film directed by Georgi Djulgerov. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival, where Djulgerov won the Silver Bear for Best Director. The action takes p...

In 1987, a group of students broke the Pantheon of dead anti-fascists in the sea garden of Burgas. Due to the public position and the authority of the parents, the incident was hidden, and the photos of the documentary investigation were suspended....

Early 20th century. This is an era of seething passions, aspirations for freedom and national self-identification. Uprising are incited, blood is shed. The picture features national leaders who become heroes as early as in their lifetime. The protago...

The film's motto is: "The world of the elderly is a world that is constantly shrinking. Little things become big. Few people are important to us, but they are very important." Federico Fellini....

A young couple dream of having a wardrobe. When they buy it the wardrobe begins to totally manipulate their life - it orders their deeds, sets their taste, enslaves them....

The beginning of the 20th century. A village in the mountain. The young barrel maker Liyu is to be examined by the local craftsmen. They approve the barrel he has made, blindfold. They give him "the craftsman's belt". At the beginning, nobody conside...

The trumpet player, Jonah, moves into the remains of his grandfather's house near where the treasure is hidden. In a tunnel under the house he finds a stone with a bird engraved on it and a map with an inscription in Arabic: "To have a house of gold,...

Two eternal opposing theses - play is our life or life is our play - are the base of music, dance and verse which fit together in this film....

A retelling of a crucial story of Bulgaria's troubled times based on the memoirs of Zahariy Stoyanov...

In this earnest movie from Bulgaria, the minds of the young people attending a Young Pioneer (communist youth) camp in the 1950s are shown to be easily molded into a conformist vein. Later, at a "voluntary labor" camp in the 1960s, the final touches ...

A story about a writer and a young poetess...

A young journalist comes across interesting report material: talented marine engineer Maria died while on duty. Her story turns out to be quite a puzzle though - people who knew her are not willing to share much. Trying to make them speak, the journa...

A young partisan faces the moral questions of the Revolution...

The film goes beyond the traditional facade of sport's battle for medals and explores the ethical dimensions of the efforts of the trainer and her modern and rhythmic gymnastics competitors, the price of success, the meaning of hard labor and Golgoth...

The stories of three men get tangled up in the life of the young Gipsy called Magdalena - that of the Bulgarian Lilyanin, who starts off as a fighter for brotherhood but turns into a persecutor of the Gypsies; the story of the savage Halibryamov, who...

Liu is a young barrel maker and is recognized by the guild as a master, but no one truly believes in his qualities. After a long wait, he receives a commission from Karata to make him a barrel. Georgi Djulgerov's student film based on 'The Exam' by N...