Once Upon a Time in the East (2011)
- Directed by
- Demir Yanev
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Runtime
- 2h 06m
- Rated
- Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This Bulgarian documentary covers the country's transition period after communism. It uses TV archive footage and interviews with journalists, writers, and people who were in the power structures. The film focuses on the violent struggle for survival during the rise of private security firms.
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What happens
Once Upon a Time in the East is a Bulgarian documentary film based on the books by the late Georgi Stoev. The feature-length documentary tells the story of the Bulgarian transition period and includes reconstructions, TV archive from Bulgarian National Television (BNT), NOVA TV, bTV and features interviews with contemporary Bulgarian figures like Palmi Ranchev, Atanas Orachev, Rumen Leonidov, Haralan Alexandrov, Andrey Pantev and Georg Kraev. Other witnesses and participants in the power structures tell their stories of the establishment of VIS & SIC and the fierce brutality that is required to survive the days of the transition. Produced and directed by Demir Yanev the film was chosen to participate in the Al Jazeera Documentary Film Festival in April, 2011 and also in the Golden Rhyton in Plovdiv. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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