East of the West - Competition 2003 / Podgrjavane na včerašnija obed / Bulgaria, North Macedonia 2002
The tragic fate of Macedonia pervades the life of Katerina Vandova, and marked the lives of her father and grandfather. As a child she experienced Serbian repression and was imprisoned under German occupation and Tito. Only now does she decide to testify before a television camera to the disapproval of her politically compromised fellow citizens.
In 1913 Macedonia was torn into three parts. The tragic fate of the country cruelly marked the life of Katerina, an ordinary woman from the town Prilep. She tells her story to a television director from Skopje. When she was born, her father – a Communist – was imprisoned in Serbia. A Serbian teacher mutilated her for refusing to write in the Serbian alphabet. She lived through Bulgarianization and German occupation. Her father died as a partisan and she was imprisoned for resistance. Then Tito and Stalin became objects of forced adoration. Katerina fell in love with a soldier named István, a Hungarian from Szabadka. Communist Youth members Djako and Tzena redeem their prior collaboration through Communist zealousness. They have Katerina arrested as an agent who was recruited by István. When they find weapons in her house, from the period of her father’s resistance activities, they send her to a concentration camp for four years. After Stalin’s death, the prisoners are released. On the train Katerina meets Bojin, the man to whom she was promised as a child... The elderly Katerina lives in a mill with Bojin. She hasn’t spoken about her past in front of a camera until now. The town is upset by her testimony...
98 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Kostadin Bonev
/ Screenplay Mile Nedelkovski
/ Dir. of Photography Konstantin Zankov
/ Music Nikolaj Ivanov / Nikolay Ivanov
/ Editor Mladen Stojanov, Tanja Bogdanovová / Tanya Bogdanova, Bojka Velkovová / Boyka Velkova
/ Producer Galina Tonevová / Galina Toneva, Kiril Kirilov
/ Production Gala Film, koprodukce / coproduction: Digitrop
/ Cast Světlana Jančevová / Svetlana Yancheva, Biljana Kazakovová / Biliana Kazakova, Marija Mazněvová / Maria Mazneva, Sněžina Petrovová / Snezhina Petrova, Rusi Čaněv / Russi Tchanev, Galin Stojev / Galin Stoev, Atanas Atanasov
/ Contact Gala Film Ltd., Digitrop
Kostadin Bonev (b. 1951) specialized in film and television direction at Sofia’s VITIZ theatre and drama institute (1990) after graduating in theatre science (1980). He worked for television as a director and assistant director, and has shot several documentaries, most of which earned him important foreign and domestic awards. His first feature Warming Up Yesterday’s Lunch (2002) is based on the novel of the same name by Mile Nedelkovski.
Gala Film Ltd.
1b, Strumitza str., 1000, Sofia
Bulgaria
Phone: +359 298 142 09
Fax: +359 298 129 71
E-mail: [email protected]
Digitrop
3, 8 mart, , Skopje
North Macedonia
Phone: +389 2 348 524
Fax: +389 2 348 524
E-mail: [email protected]
Kostadin Bonev
Film Director, Producer
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