THE PROSECUTOR, THE DEFENDER, THE FATHER AND HIS SON

Director - Iglika Trifonova

Script - Iglika Trifonova

Camera - Rali Ralchev

Music - Teodosiy Spasov

Cast - Romane Bohringer, Samuel Fröler, Izudin Bajrović, Ovanes Torosyan, Nermina Lukač, Krasimir Dokov, Igor Skvarica, Labina Mitevska

Producers - Rossitsa Valkanova, Petra Goedings, Ulf Synnerholm

Production - Klas Film, Filmlance Intenational AB, Phanta Vision Film International B.V.

This is a film about a boy from a remote Bosnian town whose life collapses along with important historical events in the region. About his brief but important appearance on the scene of these events. About the way in which the highest political interests and the court exploited one man's humble life in the name of great democracy, and then blamed him. A film about the eternal sacrifice.

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Black Nights IFF Tallinn ‘15 – FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention Golden Apricot IFF Yerevan ’16 – Jury Special Mention

Program

01.03.2022
CINEMA HOUSE - 18.30 часа

Iglika Trifonova

Writer and director of 15 documentary and 4 feature films. Her films have won numerous awards at home and abroad. The best known documentary titles include Year of 1990 (1991), Possible Distances (1992), Murder Stories (1993) and feature films Letter to America (2001), Investigation (2006) and The Prosecutor, The Defender, The Father and His Son (2015). The last film won best project award in Sofia Meetings in Sofia and Crossroads in Thessaloniki in 2008, also Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award for Best Script 2011. The Prosecutor, The Defender, The Father and His Son’s world premiere is in Tallinn’s Black Nights IFF.

FILMOGRAPHY

1991 Year of 1990 (Leto gospodne 1990-o) – doc.
1992 Possible Distances (Vazmozhni razstoyaniya) – doc.
1993 Murder Stories (Razkazi za ubiystva) – doc. short
1994 Actress Portrait (Portret na edna aktrisa) – doc.
1995 On the Road (Po patya) – doc.
2001 Letter to America (Pismo do Amerika)
2006 Investigation (Razsledvane)
2008 Deep Violet (Dalboko violetovo) – doc. short
2015 The Prosecutor, the Defender, the Father and His Son (Prokurorat, zashtitnikat, bashtata i negoviyat sin)
2017 Lift for Patients (Asansyor za patsienti)

THE PROSECUTOR, THE DEFENDER, THE FATHER AND HIS SON

Bulgaria-Netherlands-Sweden, 2015, 102 min.′, color, movie

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Program

Iglika Trifonova