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The Appeal to Bulgarians

posted 7 years ago by blakkdog
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Was this movie so appealing to Bulgarians because it was about a kind of peasant revolt/revenge against invading outsiders (Ottomons) that imposed their cruel will on the locals and was made in an era when the Russian imposed communist leadership were also resented for their cruelty? If so, how in the world did it get past the communist sensors?

And are there any specific allusions found in this movie that only a Bulgarian would recognize? It almost seems fairy tale like in its circularity and its ultimate fate in the end. As if its reflecting some older tale about taking revenge too far or using loved ones for your vengeance or something.

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[–] SickSpazmoid (691) 3 years ago

It's appealing mainly because it is a good movie. During the communist era few movies and books with anti-Turkish sentiment were produced. How much follows from a historic trauma and how much is a party line, I can't tell. Back then Turkey was enemy, being a NATO country, which could be part of the story. Bulgaria had and still has a sizable Turkish and non-Turkish Muslim minorities. During the 70s and 80s Turks were forced to change their names with Bulgarian and hundreds thousand were expelled to Turkey, sometimes violence was employed. Particularly for this movie I never heard somebody saying that it is propaganda.

As for any specific allusions, I couldn't find any. I think that it is a fairly digestible movie for foreigners, as much as an art movie could be.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

The Shopska salad was underrepresented.

[–] SickSpazmoid (691) 3 years ago

Invented 300 years after the events in the movie...