''Villa Zone'' ( bg, Вилна зона, translit=Vilna zona, italic=yes) is a

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

comedy-drama Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...

film released in 1975, directed by

Eduard Zahariev Eduard Zahariev ( bg, Едуард Захариев; 1 July 1938 – 26 June 1996) was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. Being among the prominent Bulgarian film directors from the last decades of the 20th century, Zahariev direct ...

, starring

Itzhak Fintzi Itzhak Fintzi (Izko Finzi) ( bg, Ицхак Финци (Ицко Финци)) (born 25 April 1933) is a Bulgarian film and stage actor. He was born in Sofia, where he graduated from the dramatic art academy. He graduated from the Bulgarian Nat ...

Katya Paskaleva Katya Paskaleva ( bg, Катя Паскалева) was a Bulgarian film and stage actress, born in 1945, deceased in 2002. She is best known for her performance as Maria in the Bulgarian film classic ''The Goat Horn'' (1972), for which she recei ...

Naum Shopov Naum Hristov Shopov ( bg, Наум Христов Шопов; 27 July 1930 – 18 April 2012) was a Bulgarian actor. He appeared in more than thirty films since 1960. His son Hristo Shopov Hristo Naumov Shopov ( bg, Христо Наумо� ...

, Anton Karastoyanov,

Evstati Stratev Evstati Stratev ( bg, Евстати Стратев) was a Bulgarian stage and film actor born in 1934, deceased in 1984. He is best known for the colourful supporting characters that he portrayed in the Bulgarian cinema, until his untimely deat ...

, Valcho Kamarashev and

Georgi Rusev Georgi Iliev Rusev ( bg, Георги Илиев Русев; 7 May 1928 – 1 April 2011) was a Bulgarian actor. He created a gallery of colorful characters for a four-decade career, and became famous as a master of the so-called "second plan ro ...

. The movie presents the popular tradition in Bulgaria, during the last decades of the 20th century, of organizing a feast in honor of just graduated at the school boys who have to join the army as recruits. In this particular case, the event is taking place in one of the so-called villa zones which are located around the towns. A sunny autumn day is gradually covered by the conflicts between generations, between neighbors and between different social statuses. The film won a Special Prize of the Jury at the

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( cs, Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary) is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become ...

.''Villa Zone'' imdb awards
/ref>Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1976
/ref> ''Villa Zone'' is one of the hits of the Bulgarian cinematography from those years.

Cast

as Yonko (Emo's father) *

as Stefka (Yonko's wife) *

as Mincho Minchev (Yonko's brother-in-law, Stefka's brother) * Anton Karastoyanov as Pervazov (the "problem" neighbour) *

as the correspondence student * Valcho Kamarashev as the cousin *

as a friend neighbour * Stefka Berova as Mihaylova * Ivan Yanchev as Nedev (Yonko's boss) * Nevena Simeonova as Nedev's wife * Grozdan Dobrev as Emo (Yonko and Stefka's son)

References

Sources

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External links

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''Villa Zone''
at the

Bulgarian National Television The Bulgarian National Television ( Bulgarian: Българска национална телевизия, ''Balgarska natsionalna televizia'') or BNT (БНТ), stylized as ·Б·Н·Т· since 2018, is a public television broadcaster of Bulgaria ...

{{in lang, bg 1970s Bulgarian-language films Bulgarian comedy-drama films Films set in Bulgaria Films shot in Bulgaria 1975 films 1975 comedy-drama films Films directed by Eduard Sachariev