Georgi Bogdanov
2021Черната лястовица
Georgi Djulgerov
Liubov Liubcheva, Tzvetan Alexiev
The stories of three men get tangled up in the life of the young Gipsy called Magdalena - that of the Bulgarian Lilyanin, who starts off as a fighter for brotherhood but turns into a persecutor of the Gypsies; the story of the savage Halibryamov, who knows the language of animals, but does not speak any human tongue; the story of a rich Gypsy called Kanyo who wants but does not dare to break with the lot of his kin, and story of a Frenchman in a wheelchair who comes to realize that money cannot buy everything. Magic alone can unravel this knot of destinies... And then, there is the Gypsy tale of the black swallow and how it came to be.
The Black Swallow
The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
Georgi Bogdanov, Boris Missirkov
Erich Honecker, Todor Zhivkov
A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; the cars as an instrument in the Cold War battle; legends and homemade tune-ups as an attempt to stand at least a little bit off the crowd.
The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
L’automobile sous le socialisme La liberté à quatre roues
Georgi Bogdanov
Symbols of a bygone era, the cars produced by the state-owned factories of the Eastern Bloc are now highly prized by collectors. In the former German Democratic Republic, as in the other Eastern Bloc countries, the individual car was a grail, an almost unattainable commodity.
Autos im Sozialismus – Freiheit auf vier Rädern