''We Were Young'' ( bg, А бяхме млади, ) is a 1961 Bulgarian drama film directed by
Binka Zhelyazkova
Binka Zhelyazkova ( bg, Бинка Желязкова, 15 July 1923 – 31 July 2011), was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of t ...
and written by
Hristo Ganev. The film is centered on the Bulgarian resistance to
Nazism
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in
Sofia
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and h ...
during the
Second World War
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.
Cast
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Dimitar Buynozov
Dimitar Buynozov ( bg, Димитър Буйнозов, 7 November 1935 – 25 November 1995) was a Bulgarian actor. He appeared in 13 films between 1957 and 1991.
Filmography
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1935 births
1995 deaths
Bulgarian mal ...
as Dimo
*Rumyana Karabelova as Veska
*Lyudmila Cheshmedzhieva as Tzveta
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Georgi Georgiev-Getz
Georgi Georgiev-Getz ( bg, Георги Георгиев-Гец; October 4, 1926 – September 2, 1996) was a Bulgarian film and stage actor.
Best known for portraying valiant and honest conservative men, Getz was among the prominent names i ...
as Mladen
*Emilia Radeva as Nadya
*Anani Yavashev as Slavcho
*Georgi Naumov
*Ivan Trifonov
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Dimitar Panov
*Ivan Bratanov
*Dora Stoyanova
Release and acclaim
The film premiered on 13 March 1961 in Bulgaria. The film premiered in Russia in July 1962 at the
2nd Moscow International Film Festival
The 2nd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 9 to 23 July 1961. The Grand Prix was shared between the Japanese film ''The Naked Island'' directed by Kaneto Shindo and the Soviet film '' Clear Skies'' directed by Grigori Chukhrai.
Ju ...
and won the Golden Prize (1959–1967) for director
Binka Zhelyazkova
Binka Zhelyazkova ( bg, Бинка Желязкова, 15 July 1923 – 31 July 2011), was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of t ...
.
Zhelyazkova was nominated as director of best picture at the Grand Prix Film Festival in 1961.
Box office
A reported 2,303,354 admissions were recorded for the film in cinemas throughout Bulgaria.
See also
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List of Bulgarian films
A list of the most notable films produced in Bulgaria ordered by year and decade of release. For an alphabetical list of articles on Bulgarian films see :Bulgarian films.
1910-1949
* List of Bulgarian films: 1919-1949
1950s
* List of Bulgarian ...
References
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1961 films
1961 drama films
1960s Bulgarian-language films
Films directed by Binka Zhelyazkova
Bulgarian black-and-white films
Bulgarian drama films
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