Bulgarian Movie Wins Audience Award at Zurich Film Festival

Society | October 5, 2008, Sunday // 00:00
Bulgaria Bulgarian Movie Wins Audience Award at Zurich Film Festival: Bulgarian Movie Wins Audience Award at Zurich Film Festival The Serbian actor Miki Manojlovic (front) and the German actor Carlo Ljubek (back) play the main roles in the Bulgarian movie "The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner. Photo by Zurich Film Festival

The Bulgarian movie "The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner" won the audience award at the Zurich Film Festival, which took place between September 25 and October 5.

The film is often described as the most ambitious Bulgarian movie project after 1989, and is a co-production of Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, and Slovenia.

The movie is based on the autobiographical novel with the same name by Iliya Troyanov. It tells the story of Alex, born in a small Bulgarian town in 1976, and his grandfather Dan, who is a local backgammon champion.

Thirty years later, in 2006, Dan visits his grandson in a hospital in Germany after a car accident, in which Alex's parents died, and Alex himself lost his memory. Alex's family had immigrated to Germany years ago.

Alex and Dan take a trip back to the small Bulgarian town, which is filled with nostalgic memories, and during which Alex discovers the truth about his own past and present.

The director of the movie is Stefan Komandarev, and the producers are Stefan Kitanov, Karl Baumgartner, Tanasis Karatanos, Daniel Hocevar, and Andras Muhi.

The Serbian actor Predrag "Miki" Manojlovic (known from Emir Kosturica's "Underground" is in the role of Dan, whereas the young German actor of Croatian origin Carlo Ljubek.

The Bulgarian actors in the movie include Hristo Mutafchiev, Ani Papadopolu, Nikolay Urumov, Pavel Popandov.

The author of the novel "The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner" Iliya Troyanov was born in Sofia in 1965. His family immigrated to Germany in 1971.

Troyanov grew up in Kenya, and has lived in India, South Africa, and Germany. He writes in German, and his novel was first translated into Bulgarian from German in 1997. The novel has won four prestigious literary awards in Germany.

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