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Heights (2017)
Directed by Viktor Bozhinov
“Everyone wants to live”
Drama, History, Comedy · 2h 00m
One of the most ambitious Bulgarian projects in recent years, Heights is an adaptation of Milen Ruskov's novel of the same name, published in 2011. The film explores the Bulgarian realities of the 1870s a few years before the war, that would liberate the country from the Ottoman occupation. Directed by Victor Bojinov and adapted by Neli Dimitrova, the story follows Gicho a young man in a revolutionary group led by Dimitar Obshti, a real-life revolutionary fighting against the Turks. After a successful train robbery Obshti entrust Gicho with a special mission: to deliver a letter to Vasil Levski, the country's most famous freedom fighter, now considered hero and dubbed The Apostle of Freedom.
Cast
Aleksandar Aleksiev
Paraskeva Djukelova
Hristo Petkov
Kiril Efremov
Vassil Mihajlov
Phillip Avramov
Malin Krastev
Stoyan Doychev
Crew
- Director
- Viktor Bozhinov
- Writer
- Milen Ruskov, Neli Dimitrova, Viktor Bozhinov
- Producer
- Ivan Doykov
Details
- Original title
- Възвишение
- Release date
- 2017-11-10
- Runtime
- 2h 00m
- Genres
- Drama, History, Comedy
- Original language
- BG
- Spoken languages
- Bulgarian
- Countries
- Bulgaria, Macedonia
- Production
- Dream Factory Macedonia, Serpentine, Bulgarian National Film Center, All Stars In, Bulfilm, Bulgarian National Television