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Cast
Mariana Dimitrova | ... |
Elitza
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Grigor Vachkov | ... |
Banko
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Velko Kynev | ... |
Velko
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Pavel Popandov | ... |
Dinko
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Nikola Todev | ... |
Kara Kolyo
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Teofil Badelov | ... |
Gelyo
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Trayan Yankov | ... |
Ilcho
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Georgi Dimitrov | ... |
Petko
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Directed by
Eduard Zahariev | ... | (as Eduard Sachariev) |
Written by
Nikolai Haitov | ... | () |
Produced by
Radoslav Bozhkov | ... | line producer |
Music by
Kiril Donchev |
Cinematography by
Radoslav Spassov |
Editing by
Nadezhda Tzenova |
Editorial Department
Suzana Simeonova | ... | assistant editor |
Mariya Vazharova | ... | assistant editor |
Production Design by
Angel Ahryanov |
Set Decoration by
Peter Goranov |
Costume Design by
Peter Goranov |
Makeup Department
Magdalena Karamaneva | ... | makeup artist |
Production Management
Kiril Lapachki | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Sergey Gyaurov | ... | first assistant director |
Abdul Muain Oyunelsud | ... | assistant director |
Konstantin Tzilev | ... | second assistant director |
Art Department
Veneta Mincheva | ... | property master |
Sound Department
Valentin Grancharov | ... | sound recordist |
Petar Varbanov | ... | sound mixer |
Camera and Electrical Department
Lalcho Dinev | ... | assistant camera |
Ivo Furnadzhiev | ... | assistant camera |
Borislav Markov | ... | gaffer |
Plamen Somov | ... | camera operator |
Chavdar Vitanov | ... | assistant camera |
Stanka Vlahova | ... | still photographer |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Lilyana Georgieva | ... | costumer |
Lilyana Tzoncheva | ... | costumer |
Script and Continuity Department
Svoboda Bachvarova | ... | script editor |
Nikola Tiholov | ... | script editor |
Emiliya Vasileva | ... | script supervisor |
Additional Crew
Nikola Bonev | ... | production assistant |
Angel Nikolov | ... | production assistant |
Alexander Sertev | ... | poster |
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Plot Summary |
There were times when stealing girls in these lands has been a worthy vocation, was a habit and a sort of custom in Bulgaria. Only the strongest and most experienced men took the profession up. A young and brave Bulgarian highlander was given the job to bring, no matter how, a certain beautiful girl to be married to somebody. Such a lad was Banko, the main character in movie. The film traces the vicissitudes of Banko. He has made a bargain to ambush and abduct the pretty Elitza and deliver her to the man who wants to marry her. The kidnapping is a success in the beginning, but the girl, Elitza, reveals a "manly" character. She puts up a stiff resistance. She fights against being taken to the weak-willed, stupid groom, who believes that the money can buy him everything. In the beginning she implores him to set her free and then threatens to jump into a ravine. At first Banko, who has become used to submissiveness of his victim, is taken aback by this sort of reaction, which runs counter to the established norms of a patriarchal code of conduct. Ultimately Banko and Elitza fall in love. This leads to the most dramatic and tragic events in their lives. His confusion evolves into a conflict between the call of duty and his emerging love for Elitza. To Banko this love, which seems to be reciprocated by his victim, is tantamount to the breaking of his word of honor. He runs the gauntlet of desire, suffering and doubt, and sees his profession in a different light. This is a film about the dawning of understanding in an unencumbered primitive mind, a turning point in the development of Eduard Sachariev who in his subsequent films has proceeded to examine the role of love as a motive force of man's surviving for freedom.
Written by Georgi Djulgerov |
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