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AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD - СЛЕД КРАЯ НА СВЕТА

Drama, 1998, PAL/VHS, Color, 104 min. Language - Bulgarian

Director: Ivan Nichev
Script: Anjel Vagenstein
Cinematographer: Georgi Nikolov
Music: Stephan Dimitrov

Cast: Caterina Didaskalu, Stephan Danailov, Vassil Michailov, Tatyana Loleva, Georgi Kaloyanchev, Georgi Roussev, Joko Rosich, Alexander Morfov, Vassil Vassilev-Zueka, Peter Slabakov, Peter Popyordanov, Ivo Papazov and his orchestra.

Production: Meta-BM4 - Bulgaria, Saxonia Media - Germany, Marathon Films - Greece, BNT, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk - MDR, Greece National Television ET-1
Distributor: Duga Art Film Supported by NFC - Bulgaria, NFC - Greece, Program Media II

Albert Cohen, an Israeli historian of the Byzantine period, flies to a professional conference in Bulgaria. Here he meets Araksi, an Armenian piano instructor and his first love from the days when Bulgarians, Jews, Armenians, Greeks, Romanians and Turks lived together peacefully in the southern Bulgarian town of Plovdiv. During those distant days, the Orthodox Priest Isai, the Rabbi Ben David and the Mullah Ibrahim knew that they were praying to the same God. All three men of the cloth were also in love with the same woman, Zulfie, of Turkish extraction. This idyll was destroyed by the socialist regime. The Turks and Romanians were resettled elsewhere, the Jews left for Israel, and Araksi's family was detained after they tried to flee to Paris. Despite the long years of separation, the relations between Albert and Araksi are still warm. But the landscape of their childhood remains locked in photos of Costas, an old Greek who still lives in Plovdiv. While Albert meets his old friends, a lawyer working for the mafia does everything possible to take control of Albert's old family home... Ivan Nichev is a graduate of the Lodz Film School and is foremost among Bulgarian directors. His film moves between past and present, against the background of beautiful and picturesque Plovdiv. After the End of the World is a call for humanity and love-not out of naivete or a misunderstanding of reality, but from a deep and sincere sadness. Any thinking person understands that even the fall of communism cannot bring the beauty of those days. Shown at the Jerusalem Film Fest, July 1999, and made its US premiere at the SF Jewish FF in July 1999. Stars the leading Bulgarian actor Stefan Danailov.

IVAN NICHEV - Born on 31.07.1940 in Kazanluk. Graduated in film directing in Lodz, Poland (1967). Member of the European Film Academy since 1997.

Filmography: Love Dreams - 1995 The Funny Adventures of a Bulgarian in Europe - 1991 Ivan and Alexandra - 1988 The Lonely People Ball - 1981 Play for a King - 1980 Boomerang - 1978 Stars in the Hair, Tears in the Eyes - 1977 Memory - 1974

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