''Triumph'' ( bg, Триумф, italic=yes) is an upcoming Bulgarian

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film directed by Kristina Grozeva and

Petar Valchanov Petar Valchanov ( bg, Петър Вълчанов; born May 15, 1982) is a Bulgarian filmmaker. He is best known for his cinematography on feature films such as '' The Lesson'' (2014), '' Glory'' (2016) and '' The Father'' (2019). Biography Valch ...

. It will star

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, Julian Kostov,

Julian Vergov Julian Emilianov Vergov ( bg, Юлиан Емилиянов Вергов; born 15 July 1970) is a Bulgarian actor. He is best known for starring in the drama series ''Glass Home'' (2010–2012), and the medical drama '' Stolen Life'' (2017–201 ...

and Margita Gosheva.

Premise

In the chaotic aftermath of the

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in the 1990s, a task force composed of high-ranking Bulgarian army officers and psychics embarks on a top-secret military operation in the small village of Tsarichina to dig up an elusive alien artifact that would change the course of history and make Bulgaria great again.

Cast

as Slava Platnikova * Julian Kostov as Private Georgi *

as Colonel Platnikov * Margita Gosheva as Pirina Nyagolova * Stanislav Ganchev as Major Chernev * Ivan Savov as General Zlatev *

Ivan Barnev Ivan Barnev ( bg, Иван Бърнев; born 15 July 1973) is a Bulgarian actor. He is best known for his performance as Jan Dítě in ''I Served the King of England'' (2006), as well as his frequent collaborations with filmmakers Kristina Groze ...

as Minister of Defense

Production

The film received first development support from the Bulgarian National Film Center in 2018. In 2019, Kristina Grozeva and

announced that ''Triumph'' was still in development, with filming expected to begin in late 2020 or 2021. In August 2022, ''

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'' reported that

and Julian Kostov would co-produce the film and lead the cast. It will be the last part of Grozeva and Valchanov's "newspaper clippings" trilogy based on articles published in the local press, after '' The Lesson'' (2014) and '' Glory'' (2016). The film is a co-production between Five Oceans, Abraxas Film and the Greek production company Graal Films, and is funded by the Bulgarian National Film Center, the Greek Film Centre,

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, the

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and ERT. Filming is underway in Bulgaria, and will take place intermittently in 2022 and 2023 with editing in between.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Triumph Upcoming films Comedy films based on actual events Bulgarian comedy films Bulgarian-language films Films set in the 1990s Films set in Bulgaria