28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Lecedra

Lecedra

director: Jivko Darakchiev
original title: Lecedra
country: France, Bulgaria
year: 2012
running time: 29 min.

synopsis

Lecedra is a small village in Bulgaria. It is also the director’ home, to which he returns after a long absence, camera in hand. A documentary about the impossibility of being an impartial observer in a place to which one is bound by emotions. Into the sometimes highly descriptive observations, there suddenly intrudes the director’s emotionally animated commentary.

A small, snow-shrouded village in a post-communist country. The Eisenstein-like conflict between the old and the new (relicts of totalitarianism contrast with the achievements of capitalism) takes on sleepy contours in the wintry timelessness, far from the budding spring.

more about film

director: Jivko Darakchiev
cast: Raina Philipova, Mircho Mirchev, Nadezhda Darakchieva
producer: François Bonenfant
editing: Jivko Darakchiev, Perrine Gamot
music: Pavlina Raikova
sound: JR Skola, Thomas Rouviallain
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