11° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Special Screenings 1993

Neshto vav vazduha

SOMETHING IN THE AIR
by Peter Popzlatev
Country: Bulgaria
Year: 1993
Duration: 101'


Necto vav vazducha is an untraditional mystery film about two men. A nameless and ageless, rather enigmatic man is followed by his double who is a lot like him and is as unpredictable and puzzling. Who are they? Robots? Puppets? Ghosts of their former selves or just two lonely human beings? And why do they spend their time wandering along the seashore ? It seems the two men lost their youth and strength long ago, and have been crushed by a totalitarian way of life. In an odd way, the first man is transformed into his double, becomes a kind of killer, a persecution machine who destroys paradoxically "his" inner life and symbolically mankind.

Biography

film director

Peter Popzlatev

Peter PopzIatev (1953) studied first at the Sorbonne and then at the Institut Louis Lumière in Paris, specializing in film, from 1974 to 1978. In 1978 he returned to Bulgaria where he worked as assistant director to Lubomir Charlandjiev. He worked for television from 1980 to 1982. In 1983 he was elcted a member of the Union of Bulgarian Film Professionals, the sole professional film organization in Bulgaria. His Az, grafinyata won the Jury's Grand Prize and the Audience Award at the Turin Film Festival in 1989.

FILMOGRAFIA

Difficult Choice (doc. 1983), Komi, the People (doc., 1985), The Foreigner (doc., 1987), Az, grafinyata (Io, la contessa, 1989), Necto vav vazducha (1993).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Peter Popzlatev.
Screenplay: Konstantin Pavlov.
Director of photography: Stefan Ivanov.
Art director: Anne De Chantre, Boriana Semerdgieva.
Editor: Madien Raditcheva.
Music: Georgi Genkov.
Sound: Ludmila Mahalnishka.
Cast and characters: Ivailo Hrislov (primo straniero), Valentin Ganev (secondo straniero), Svetlana Jantcheva (la donna in bianco), Detelina Lazarova (guida del museo), Alexander Doinov (conducente), Borislav Chakrinov (idraulico), Anne Valchanova (receptionist), Radoslav Blazev (cassiere), Rangel Valtchanov (cappellaio), Hristo Garbov.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Boyana Film Studio (Sofia), ARION Production, 16-18 rue Vulpian, 75013 Paris, +33-14-45357575, fax +33-14-43362097.
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