The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (2008)

Original title

Светът е голям и спасение дебне отвсякъде

Directed by

Stephan Komandarev

Genre

drama film

Country

Bulgaria, Germany

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Bulgarian man wakes up after a traumatic accident with no memory of his past. He sets off on a journey across Europe with his grandfather, a former chess champion, to reclaim his identity and find his way home.

contemplativebittersweetheartfeltroad-movieintrospectivehopefulpoignantslow-paced

What happens

The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (Bulgarian: Светът е голям и спасение дебне отвсякъде, romanized: Svetat e golyam i spasenie debne otvsyakade) is a 2008 drama road movie co-written and directed by Stephan Komandarev, starring Miki Manojlović, Carlo Ljubek, Hristo Mutafchiev and Ana Papadopulu. It is based on the autobiographic novel Die Welt ist groß und Rettung lauert überall by Bulgarian-German writer Ilija Trojanow. It is a co-production between Bulgaria, Slovenia, Germany and Hungary The film has received generally favorable reviews from film critics and audiences around the world, having received more than 20 festival awards. On January 20, 2010, it was revealed that the film had been selected among the nine films that will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 82nd Academy Awards, but was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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