Hristo Shopov
Also Known As: Hristo Naumov Shopov, Христо Наумов Шопов, Христо Шопов
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Hristo Naumov Shopov (Bulgarian: Христо Наумов Шопов) (born January 4, 1964 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian actor. Shopov's father, Naum Shopov, is a famous Bulgarian actor as well. He is most noted for his portrayal of Pontius Pilate in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. He has become one of Bulgaria's most successful actors, making his debut in 1981 with Dishay, choveche (Breathe, Little Man!). His body of work includes many Bulgarian films such as Vchera (Yesterday) and Sledvay me (Follow Me). He has also appeared in several low-budget US film productions including Phantom Force, Target of Opportunity and Alien Hunter. In his homeland, he is best known for his role in the movie Vchera, which became a symbol of several generations. The movie tells the story of young Bulgarian people studying in an English college during Communist rule. Mary Soan, an assistant director of the film I Am David, suggested that he would be suited for the role of Pilate to Shaila Rubin, who was casting the film. After Hristo and Gibson had a brief conversation, Hristo was given the part. Shopov also played the role of Pontius Pilate in the 2006 film The Inquiry, which also cast Max von Sydow as Emperor Tiberius. He recently played the Russian premier in the upcoming Command Performance starring and directed by Dolph Lundgren. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hristo Naumov Shopov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sofia, Bulgaria
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The Passion of the Christ
Overview: A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-25
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Dark Descent
Overview: Deep in the Mariana Sea Trench, a corporate underwater mining complex has been built - an industrial Atlantis. When an accident in a dry-dock chamber kills several miners an investigator is sent to find the cause and immediately finds out that it was not an accident. He becomes caught in the middle of a deadly conflict between the miners and the corporation, and fights to stay alive and uncover the truth.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-06
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Dragon Fighter
Overview: The movie begins in Southern England in the Middle Ages and then six knights are seen riding in horses towards a destroyed town. They see the remains of burned buildings and dead people until they come upon a mother and her dead baby. She quickly dies and then a rhino-sized dragon flies overhead, the knights follow right behind, vowing to kill the creature.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-04
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The Lark Farm
Overview: The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looking closely at the fortunes, or rather, misfortunes of one wealthy Armenian family.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Target of Opportunity
Overview: Jim Jacobs and Nick Carlton, childhood friends, are CIA operatives on a sting operation in Chechnya. The raid of a rebel militia group goes bad and the entire teams gets wiped out except for Jim and Nick, who manages to save them both. Five years later, they are out of the CIA game.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-26
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Double Identity
Overview: In Chechnya, an American doctor takes a detour in life when he helps a mysterious woman escape from her would-be assailant.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-18
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Command Performance
Overview: When the Russian Premier is taken hostage at a rock concert in Moscow, it's up to a drummer, an ex-biker, to save him.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-18
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The Grey Zone
Overview: The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-13
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I Am David
Overview: A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-03
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Undisputed III: Redemption
Overview: Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight tournament begins - an international affair, matching the best fighters from prisons around the globe, enticing them with the promise of freedom for the winner - Boyka must reclaim his dignity and fight for his position in the tournament.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-17
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Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
Overview: The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-08-15
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Barbarossa
Overview: Year 1100. Italy.The Northern lands are ruled by a German emperor: Fredrick aka "Barbarossa. His dream is to conquer also the lands in the Center and in the South so as to revive the Empire that was once of the one Charles Magno.But in the North a young man from Milan has formed an army of 900 young men coming from different cities: the "company of death". This young man's name is Alberto Da Giussano. His dream is to defeat the Emperor and to give back freedom to the Northern lands.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-10-09
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Love.net
Overview: Follows the parallel stories of a number of characters who are trying to change their lives via the Internet or are simply having fun online.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-01
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In the Heart of the Machine
Overview: Heat, iron, dust and the smell of oil. A typical workday of maximum security inmates will prove to be fateful for all of them. They find something extraordinary inside one of the machines, and an unexpected wave of compassion makes the prisoners take hostages and block the entrance to the workshop and risk their lives, because sometimes the desire to be human is stronger than the survival instinct.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2022-03-18
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Chechnya
Overview: The story of Radio Radicale journalist Antonio Russo
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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City of Fear
Overview: When reporter Steve Roberts acts on a call from his good friend, Charlie, urging him to report on a hot scientific story in Bulgaria, he ends up in a world of disappearance, death and deception.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-20
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Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express
Overview: Terrorists hold a group of people hostage during a Millenium Eve party aboard the Orient Express. Only an action movie star and a gymnast can save them.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-18
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Barabbas
Overview: Barabbas or Jesus Barabbas (literally "son of the father" or "Jesus, son of the father" respectively) is a figure in the account of the Passion of Christ, in which he is the insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, instead of Jesus Christ.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-28
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Project: Human Weapon
Overview: Griffin Michael is the only survivor of a top-secret C.I.A. program that raised five people to become superweapons—human killing machines. Griffin has been trained to use his mind as a weapon: with a small brain impulse he can move objects hundreds of times his own weight, and can kill with a single thought. Now he is about to be released from the remote secret facility where he has been raised, and unleashed on an unsuspecting world...
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Resolution 819
Overview: Resolution 819: Adopted by the Security Council at its 3199th meeting on April 16th, 1993. Resolution 819 tells the compelling story of a young investigator sent to Bosnia in 1995 to investigate the disappearance of 8,000 men in Srebrenica and eventually bring the perpetrators of the massacre to justice at the International Criminal Court. Benoît Magimel stars as Jacques Calvez, a man of integrity who refuses to let politicians, mobsters or bureaucrats stand in his way. He receives valuable help in his quest from Lherbier (Hippolyte Girardot), a French secret service agent, and above all from beautiful forensic anthropologist Clara Gorska (Karolina Gruszka)
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-27
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Interceptor Force 2
Overview: In the not too distant future a new team of specially trained government soldiers called an Interception Team contend with the latest hostile alien encounter. When an alien scout ship crashes in eastern Russia, Sean Lambert and his elite force are dispatched to investigate. They come face-to-face with a seemingly invincible seven-foot tall, shape shifting foe hell-bent on blowing up a Russian nuclear power plant in an effort to destroy mankind through a nuclear winter. The stakes become personal when the alien discovers it was Lambert who killed its mate four years ago (Interceptor Force). A major battle ensues as the Interceptor Team look to save the Earth from alien annihilation.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-30
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To Bury a Dragon
Overview: In a small Bulgarian town an aging homophobic wood-carver receives a tragic news which awakens his buried shame and anger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-10
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Yesterday
Overview: The 1960s was the time of Beatles and Rolling Stones, the time of sexual revolution. These events have their echo in Bulgarian English-learning school. The school order provokes a protest of the students due to the narrow-minded teachers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1988-01-25
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Karbala
Overview: On 3 April 2004, during the holiday of Ashura, Iraqi rebels loyal to Shiite leader Muktada As-Sadr, launched an insurgency in the Polish zone. The Poles, together with Bulgarian soldiers and Iraqi police, were given the task of defending City Hall, led by Lieutenant colonel Grzegorz Kaliciak. The clash developed into the biggest Polish engagement since World War II. Not a single allied soldier died, although about 80 insurgents were killed in a counter-attack.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2015-09-08
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Margarit and Margarita
Overview: A pair of rebellious high school students get thrown out of home and school, then drift from job to job. Bulgaria's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1989-12-04
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HDSP: Hunting Down Small Predators
Overview: A young man has trouble communicating with people and is seeing a shrink. He falls in love at first sight, then meets three friends and joins their small community. The four youngsters naively decide to make some easy money by blackmailing an elderly woman. Little do they know that a stranger with a shady past and problematic present will turn their lives upside down. A story about love and despair, hope and disillusionment, revenge and revelation.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-17
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General della Rovere
Overview: Giovanni Bertone a former colonel, is a fraudster who extorts money from the families of the Nazi-Fascist prisoners. He promises them their freedom. Discovered by Colonel Muller he is offered a pact: to save his life, he must go to Milan with a false identity to discover the members belonging to the Resistance.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-10-09
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The Petrov File
Overview: In the late 1980s, stage actor Alexander Petrov is banned from theatre without any apparent reason. When he reappears, after the demise of the Communist regime, he discovers that he had been denounced by the one man he admired most, his master and friend. He discovers this fact at the very moment that he is called upon to deliver a funeral eulogy for the man. Devastated, Petrov declares that he is retiring from public life. That’s when Markov offers his help. An old acquaintance, Markov was a former director of the secret service, who has become a successful businessman. Now, in the mid-1990s, the country is wracked by unretstrained capitalism, along with violence and gang wars. Markov, an admirer of Petrov’s stage talents, offers to make him the leader of a new political party aiming at rescuing the country. Can this work? Is Markov the right man to be allied with? Petrov must make a fateful decision.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2015-03-06
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Fuga per la libertà - L'aviatore
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Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-01-25
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The Final Inquiry
Overview: In 35 A.D., a Roman tribune is sent to Palestine to investigate the death and possible resurrection of a certain Jesus from Nazareth.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-04-04
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Alien Hunter
Overview: Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-19
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The Love Summer of a Schlep
Overview: Four friends and three girls spend a summer on a desolated beach, living in an abandoned hut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1990-05-07
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South Wind
Overview: A story about Petar Maraš, a Belgrade criminal in his late twenties, whose one reckless move causes an avalanche of events that will greatly affect the lives of those around him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2018-10-23
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Test '88
Overview: Night on the outskirts of a big city. Several dump trucks are chasing random people on the road at high speed. They threaten to crush them. What makes these drivers so violent? The investigator puts them before the court on their own conscience. They should answer the question: "am I a good person?"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1989-04-24
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Don Quixote Returns
Overview: Spain, XVII century. Elderly eccentric Don Quihan dreams of romance about knights and exploits. Everyone around him considers the old man crazy, only the shepherd Sancho Panse sincerely believed in the noble impulses of Don Kihano. One night, Don Quihano decides to realize his dream and escape from the city. “Don Quixote Returns” is an adventure comedy based on the novel “The Cunning Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha” by Miguel Cervantes.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1997-06-03
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Dragon Dynasty
Overview: A group of European explorers returning from China battle a pair of dragons sent by an evil wizard intent on keeping his land a secret.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-22
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Shark Hunter
Overview: The Megalodon shark. A prehistoric killing machine 60 feet long, flashing 200 pounds of teeth and weighing over 20 tons. It's the deadliest predator the world has ever seen. The scientists say it's been extinct for more than 10,000 years. The scientists are wrong. In the darkness of the deep, an underwater research station has been viciously destroyed. Now a tough team of daring divers led by Spencer Northcutt [Antonio Sabato Jr. "Melrose Place"] is taking an experimental sub to war. It's killer instinct vs. sophisticated technology, deadly jaws vs. harpoon-tipped torpedoes, mega-shark vs. modern man is a thrilling extreme deep sea fight to the death.
Genres: Action Adventure Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-01
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Следвай ме
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2003-09-30
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Python 2
Overview: A man, his business partner, and his wife are enlisted to transport an unknown object from a Russian military base, only to discover that the object is a giant, genetically-altered python.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-17
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Locusts: The 8th Plague
Overview: A group of scientists try to stop a swarm of flesh-eating locusts that escape from a top secret government lab in the USA Midwest.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-12
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Asylum
Overview: A veteran hostage negotiator's next call leads him to an overrun insane asylum. He soon finds that dark forces are pushing the patients to commit atrocities, and he may be the only one that can stop them.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-30
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Operation Shmenti Capelli
Overview: The title is based on the idiomatic expression "shmenti capelli" characterizing actions of people who like to shuffle and bamboozle others with superficial commitments. Karamfilov choose it as a metaphor for people with huge economic and political power. The funny comedy incorporates a tragic story in which Karamfilov plays two roles: the Big Guy and the Little Guy. Big is tied to the Mafia and the Secret services. Little is an unemployed teacher, squeezed and crushed by the system, which stops his heating and electricity, has his home emptied by a bailiff, and uses him as a tool in a game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2011-10-06
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Phantom Force
Overview: The Venture, an old trident nuclear submarine retrofitted for research, has picked up an ancient and powerful artifact off the ocean floor and brought it aboard. Called the Hades Stone, it allows the dead to pass through a portal into the world of the living. No one has entered the portal, but evil things have emerged: phantoms, demons, and an ancient being known as the Stone Keeper, guardian of the Hades Stone. The Stone Keeper and his stone demons promptly attack, killing the entire crew and commandeering the submarine. Now, it is up to the elite Phantom Force team to stop him.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-06
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Octopus
Overview: During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, a Russian submarine strays into American waters. On board is a nuclear cargo destined for Castro. The Americans attack and destroy the sub. 38 years later US submarine Roosevelt is in the same waters. An unknown object attacks and disables the sub with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggars belief: dozens of wrecks, among them the sub destroyed 38 years ago. Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength! The only way out is the emergency submersible and a passing cruise ship. Above or below the water, there is no escape from the monster mutant octopus with a nuclear diet...
Genres: Action Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-21
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Queen's Messenger
Overview: By order of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Captain Strong is given a dangerous assignment to deliver a delicate communication to the British Ambassador in Kazakhstan. As the senior officer for the elite Queen's Messenger corps, Captain Strong must pledge to protect his diplomatic cargo with his life
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-02
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Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault
Overview: When a group of seismologists are taken prison, the forces that be know that there is only one team of rescuers to turn to--the highly elite Delta Force. Upon beginning this difficult mission to track down and save the hostages, the men on the Force are met with several surprises--surprises that lead them to think this may be one mission they cannot get out of.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-09
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U.S. Seals
Overview: Dozens of American cargos with high valuable goods have disappeared, probably attacked by modern pirates. The United States decide to mobilize a team of expert SWAT, with Mike Bradley as leader, sending them to destroy the pirates' base, namely a deserted oil rig near Turkey. But these are cleverly waiting for them.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-18
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Berlin '39
Overview: A German officer is forced to marry Louise, daughter of a general, hero of the First World War. But Louise maintains lesbian relationships with Margo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-06-24
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Marines
Overview: The cold war is over. East and West are fighting together against illegal secretly heavily armed terrorists, criminals and resistance fighters. During one of these missions, four soldiers are kidnapped and seems like a great international crisis to emerge. The highest military bosses in America and Russia are in panic. The well-known cover-up must offer a solution. But ... Marines are not just aside and decisions without official support to do everything to liberate their comrades. Additional help comes from an unexpected angle, but whether this will be enough ...
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Darklight
Overview: Captured by a secret society known as the Faith and mentally controlled with a powerful spell, ancient demoness Lilith now lives as a young woman with no memory of her agless past. However, the terrifying plague unleashed by a rampaging monster, the Demonicos, forces one human to recruit her mystical power known as the Darklight to fight this terrifying beast...
Genres: Action Fantasy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Razvodi, razvodi...
Overview: Razvodi, razvodi... is a 1989 Bulgarian anthology comedy film that delves into the complexities of marital relationships through a series of five short stories, all centered around the theme of divorce. Each segment offers a unique perspective on the emotional and societal facets of separation, blending satire with poignant human experiences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1989-11-05
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