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For all those who have seen the best Bulgarian Film "The Glory of the Khan" by Ludmil Staikov, this film will appear as a pleasant surprise. On the one hand the former was an epic melodrama the latter is very much a "metaphysical film". This is because it is sad that there are very few European films which have a family as their focal point.This film was made with the help of funds provided by French producers. It is a film in which the characters are searching for the meaning of life. They explore all the possibilities of knowing as to what makes our lives worthwhile. How would you one react if some one lovable suddenly decides to go away.The best part of this film is its haunting score. It is very much in tune with the prevailing mood of the film.Give it a try if you would like to watch a Bulgarian film. PS : Like many east Europeans film, this film too depicts the effect America has on ordinary denizens of Eastern Europe.

I saw this film 10 years ago at a foreign film festival. Shown at 9 pm on a Sunday night after long weekend of non-stop films, this was the last film shown. Yet after all these years this film is one of the few I somewhat remember after seeing dozens and dozens of films over the various annual film festivals.

A friend and I were just reminiscing about films we had seen at the film festival over the years, and his comment was "as I recall it was interesting to watch, if a tad inscrutable". I would have to agree. After the movie was over a woman mentioned the significance of water and things made a *little* more sense. But after all these years I forgot what the significance was.

I would like to see this movie again though to see if my interest in the movie was due to when-and-where I had seen the movie.