Cinema Againts Power

Cinema Againts Power

Cinema Againts Power

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Cinema Againts Power

2017

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There was an undeclared war for nearly half a century in Bulgaria between the then government and the majority of democratic-minded filmmakers during the Communist regime. Paradoxically, most of the banned or censored out movies were made by members of the Communist Party, believers in their party's ideas and justice. The Communist Party aesthetics against the freedom to tell truth.

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Anri Kulev

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Ingeborg Bratoeva

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Deyan Statulov

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