The Judgment (Bulgarian: Съдилището) is a 2014 Bulgarian drama film directed by Stephan Komandarev [fr; bg].[3][4] It was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.[5][6][7]
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Directed by | [[Stephan Komandarev]] [fr; bg] |
Written by | Marin Damyanov Emil Spahiyski Stephan Komandarev |
Produced by | Stephan Komandarev Katya Trichkova Polly Guentcheva Alexander Ris Christine Haupt Boris T. Matic Vladimir Anastasov Angela Nestorovska[1] |
Starring | Assen Blatechki |
Cinematography | Krasimir Andonov |
Edited by | Nina Altaparmakova |
Music by | Stefan Valdobrov |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
Countries | Bulgaria Germany Croatia Macedonia[2] |
Language | Bulgarian |
The film takes place in Bulgaria by the Rhodope Mountains, near the Turkish border. A widower, Mityo, needs money to forestall foreclosure on his home. He drives a milk tanker but business is slow, so he reluctantly accepts a job smuggling migrants over the border into Bulgaria. (A character in the film describes the migrants as "Gypsies, Arabs, and blacks"; many of them are presumably Refugees of the Syrian Civil War.[8]) The work reminds Mityo of his military service in the late 1980s, assigned to the Bulgarian border guard, where his task was to prevent citizens from leaving the Eastern Bloc.