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The Sofia International Film Festival is poised to have an adventurous 25th anniversary
German Lessons by Pavel Vesnakov
One can only imagine what it must be like to be on the team of the Sofia International Film Festival. One year after the 2020 edition was cancelled only days before it was supposed to begin, the festival again faces an enormous amount of uncertainty, which must have been especially daunting given the fact that the 25
th edition should have been a celebratory one. But one can still hope for the best while preparing for the worst, and the Sofia IFF seems poised to show that culture and cinema are here to stay, despite the trying circumstances.
The Bet. The project is being staged by Bulgaria’s Omega Films, represented by producer
Svetla Tsotsorkova, and by Romanian outfit Avva Mmix Studio, represented by
Andreea Dumitrescu.
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The screenplay, written by Ovcharov, is set in Sofia in the 1890s. The story centres on the power struggle between the Bulgarian prime minister (
Zachary Baharov) and a major (
Assen Blatechki), who conspires with Russian forces against the PM. The major gets a Romanian woman (Romanian actress
Ofelia Popii) involved in this conspiracy, a lady whom both he and the prime minister have been with while living in Bucharest in the past. Soon, the conflict between the two men will spiral into a life-and-death situation.