Na malkiya ostrov

1958
1h 34m

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The film is a bitter parable about the slow maturing of the idea of freedom - both collective and personal. The characters's deaths are absurd, with no pathos.The film is a bitter parable about the slow maturing of the idea of freedom - both collective and personal. The characters's deaths are absurd, with no pathos.The film is a bitter parable about the slow maturing of the idea of freedom - both collective and personal. The characters's deaths are absurd, with no pathos.

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This is one of the first innovative films, which signaled the close of the period of schematic characterization in Bulgarian cinema.

There was a special decree of Central Committee of Bulgarian Communist Party against the film. Some of the spiritual trends of the time - anarchism, idealism, sectarian narrow-mindedness, humanism and violence - are portrayed by richly poetic means. The interior monologue, providing a link with the present, the lyricism of the visual style and the wealth of the score help reveal the personal motifs of the characters, which lead them to their tragic self-sacrifice.

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This is one of the first innovative films, which signaled the close of the period of schematic characterization in Bulgarian cinema and marked the beginning of the collaboration between Rangel Vulchanov and Valeri Petrov. The story is based on real event. After the upheavals in 1923-1925 a group of political prisoners have been exiled to the Black Sea island of St Anastasia.