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.
film details
| 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 |
contact
Le FresnoyJivko Darakchiev
22 rue du Fresnoy, BP 80179 Tourcoing, 59202 France
myjivko@gmail.com
+(33) 647794789
Film at festival
| premiere type: | Central European Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2013 |
| section: | Between the Seas |
| format: | DCP |
| language: | Bulgarian |
| subtitles: | English |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Jivko Darakchiev |
| original title: | Lecedra |
| country: | France, Bulgaria |
| year: | 2012 |
| running time: | 29 min. |
