Summer cinema panorama – Historical films in the Historical museum

Summer cinema panorama Pleven 2021 – Historical films in the Historical museum:

August 11, 9 p.m. – “Beliyat general” (“The White General”) – Bulgaria / Russia, 54 minutes; Director: Vladimir Shteryanov; Co-production: Miramar Film (Bulgaria), Ship – Andrey Kirisenko (Russia)

A film about General Skobelev and the patriotic era of the Bulgarian Liberation, in which Pleven occupies a special place. The film’s story is told by famous researchers of the 19th century – military historians, intellectuals and public figures, such as the writer Boris Vasilev, Alexey Leonov – pilot-cosmonaut and president of the International Skobelev Committee, Prof. Andrey Pantev, Prof. Bozhidar Dimitrov and others. The film uses many unique materials from the early 20th century, as well as photos from the state archives of Russia and Bulgaria. Nature reconstructions were specially shot and footage from the feature film “Geroite na Shipka” (“The heroes of Shipka”) was used.

August 12, 9 p.m. – “Prikazka za Astrid” (“A Tale of Astrid”) – Sweden-Denmark, 123 minutes, biographical drama; Directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen; Starring: Alba August, Bjorn Gustafson, Trine Dyrholm, Magnus Krepper and others.

On the real story of the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren. The film tells the little-known story about the appearance of the most rebellious freckled girl in literature – Pippi Longstocking. As a teenager in conservative Sweden (1920s), Astrid Lindgren, then still Astrid Erickson, had an affair with her boss, the editor-in-chief of a local newspaper. Revolving around this story, the biography examines the difficult choices Lindgren is forced to make, as well as the life lessons she learns from the situation. This is the first film biography of the world-famous writer, whose characters are loved by young and old in almost 100 countries around the world.

August 13, 9 p.m. – “Obeshtanieto na zorata” (“The Promise of Dawn”) – France, 125 minutes; Director: Eric Barbier; Starring: Pierre Niney, Charlotte Gainsbourg

This tragicomedy tells the story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French fiction writers and the only writer to have twice won the Goncourt Prize for French Literature. The film is an adaptation of his autobiographical novel, in which he tells of his childhood in Poland, his emigration to Southern France, following the onset of Hitlerism, and of his career in the French Air Force during World War II. The novel has been translated and published in Bulgarian.

August 14, 9 p.m. – “Churchill” – Great Britain, 105 minutes, drama; Director: Jonathan Teplitzky; Starring: Brian Cox, John Slattery, Miranda Richardson and others.

Exhausted by the years of war and on the edge of depression, Churchill is a shadow of the hero who resisted Hitler’s “lightning” tactics. If the Normandy landins fails, he is terrified that he will be remembered as the ideologue of this massacre. Political opponents are sharpening their knives. General Eisenhower and General Montgomery are furious at Churchill’s attempts to stop the landing. The king himself has to intervene. Only the support of the brilliant wife Clementine can sustain Churchill’s physical and mental collapse.