At one of the first demonstrations after November 10, 1989, a man appeared who had hung the portrait of Todor Zhivkov (ex-communist dictator) upside down on a pole. In this ritual gesture of desecration can be found signs of the ancient desire for revenge of the slave over the fallen master, which awakens in every social cataclysm. 

An epoch was dying. An era that some historians call “Zhivkov’s era”. 

Many hurried to cross it out. As representatives of an immature civil society, we have tried to blame the mirror for the distorted image of socialism in which we were looking at. This mirror is called Todor Zhivkov. 

The film is based entirely on photos, chronicles and documents. Little-known or unpublished memoirs stored in the Central State Archives were used as the dramatic structure for the fiction episodes. 

written and directed by Svetoslav Ovcharov; 

DoP Vesselin Hristov, 

sound designer Valeria Popova, 

composer Bozhidar Petkov, 

Bulgaria 

Festivals 

Sofia IFF, Bulgaria