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(aka "The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner" or "Svetat e golyam i spasenie debne otvsyakade" or "A világ nagy és a megváltás a sarkon ólálkodik" or "Die Welt ist groß und Rettung lauert überall" or "Svet je velik in resitev se skriva za vogalom" ) |
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by Stephan Komandarev
Bulgaria/Germany/Slovena/Hunary 2008
When Alexander (Carlo Ljubek,
THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX) is in a road accident and
his parents are killed - Vasil (Hristo Mutafchiev) and Yana (Ana
Papadopulu) - his "Backgammon King" grandfather Bai Dan (Miki
Manojlovic, THE BURMA CONSPIRACY) travels from his home
in Bulgaria to care for him and discovers that the young man is
suffering from retroactive amnesia. The doctors advise Bai Dan
that telling Alexander about his parents could do more harm than
good; however, the old man grows tired of trying to jog his
grandson's memory when he won't even leave his hospital room. He
breaks the news of their deaths to Alexander, who still does not
remember anything. Bai Dan decides to take Alexander back home
to Bulgaria; however, he chooses to do it in a way that will
hopefully help him recover his memories (by traveling back along
the same route that Alexander and his parents took to escape
communist Bulgaria years before). As the pair travel on
two-seater bicycle back to Bulgaria by way of Italy - where
Alexander and his parents spent years at a labor camp when they
could not get political asylum - we experience through
flashbacks not only Alexander's own memories, but also the
impossible situation that made it necessary for them to flee the
country in the first place (as well as the fallout that Bai Dan
and Alexander's grandmother "Sladka" [Lyudmila Cheshmedzhieva,
THE PEACH THIEF] experienced at the hands of a communist
commandant [Nikolai Urumov, AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD]). |
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Theatrical Release: 10 October 2008 (Bulgaria)
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DVD Review: Olive Films - Region 1 - NTSC
Big thanks to Eric Cotenas for the Review!
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Runtime | 1:50:56 | |
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1.78:1 Original Aspect Ratio
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Audio | Bulgarian/German/Italian/Hungarian/Slovenian/English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo | |
Subtitles | English (burnt-in) | |
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Release Information: Studio: Olive Films Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 8 |
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Olive Films' disc of this Bulgarian/Slovenian/Hungarian/German co-production is given a respectful dual-layer, progressive, anamorphic transfer. Audio, however, is only 2.0 stereo (the German import reportedly has a 5.1 mix of the multi-language track as well as a full German 5.1 dub). There are no extras. |
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