''The Judgment'' ( bg, Съдилището) is a 2014 Bulgarian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Stephan Komandarev
Stephan Komandarev (born September 28, 1966) is a Bulgarian film director, producer and screenwriter. His films have been selected on three occasions as Bulgaria's submission to the Academy Awards for the Best International Feature Film competit ...
.
It was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
88th Academy Awards
The 88th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2015 and took place on February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, 5:30 p.m. PST. Dur ...
but it was not nominated.
Plot
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.
) 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.
Cast
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Assen Blatechki
Assen Emilov Blatechki ( bg, Асен Емилов Блатечки; born 22 March 1971) is a Bulgarian actor.
Acting and television career
Blatechki appeared in a number of Bulgarian films including ''Steps in the Sand"'' (Bulgarian: ''Стъ ...
as Mitio
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Ovanes Torosian as Vasko
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Ina Nikolova as Maria
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Predrag Manojlovic
Predrag ( sr-cyr, Предраг) is a Slavic masculine given name, predominantly borne by ethnic Slavs, derived from ''pre-'' ("very, much") and ''-drag'' ("dear, beloved"), both common in Slavic dithematic names. It roughly means "very beloved". ...
as The Captain
* as Kera
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Meto Jovanovski as The Doctor
* as Ramadan
See also
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References
External links
* (Premium Films, international sales agent)
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Cineuropa
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2014 films
2014 drama films
Bulgarian drama films
2010s Bulgarian-language films
Films set in Bulgaria
Films shot in Bulgaria
Films about refugees