14-10-2014

FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: Stefan Komandarev’s The Judgment

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    Ina Nikolova and Ovanes Torosian in The Judgment by  Stefan Komandarev Ina Nikolova and Ovanes Torosian in The Judgment by Stefan Komandarev

    VARNA: The Judgment is the latest film by internationally acclaimed Bulgarian director Stefan Komandarev. The film screens in the main competition of the Varna Golden Rose Film Festival (11-17 October 2014).

    The Judgment by Stefan KomandarevThe film is an emotional story about a man was forced to kill a young GDR couple trying to escape across the Bulgarian-Turkish border during communist times and who finds himself smuggling people from Turkey into Bulgaria two decades later.

    Stefan Komandarev is the director and scriptwriter of The World is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner produced by RFF International, Pallas Film GmbH and Vertigo/Emotionfilm, which was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2010 and won more than 35 international prizes.

    Marin Damyanov, Emil Spahiyski, Stefan Komandarev wrote the script and Stefan Komandarev is directing. The film is a 1.9 m EUR coproduction between Bulgaria’s Argo Film, Germany’s Neue Mediopilis Filmproduction, Macedonia’s Sektor Film and Croatia’s Propeler Film.

    The project is supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center, the Bulgarian National Television, MDM, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, DFFF, the Macedonian Film Fund, the Croatian Audio and Eurimages (250,000EUR).

    The Judgment by Stefan KomandarevShooting took place in extremely difficult conditions including 40% night scenes during October-December 2012. The main actors are: Assen Blatechki, Miki Manojlovic, Ovanes Torossian, Vasil Vasilev-Zueka, Ina Nikolova and Paraskeva Djukelova.

    The Judgment will also be screened in the main competition of the Warsaw Film Festiva on 16 October 2014. French company Premium Films already sold the film to Greece. A Plus Film will release the film domestically on 21 November 2014.

    For more information go to: http://www.zlatnaroza.bg/en/portfolio/the-judgment/

    Production information:

    Argo Film
    29, Slavyanska str.
    1000 Sofia
    Bulgaria
    + 359 878 308 238
    + 359 879 815 542
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    www.argofilm.eu

    The Judgment by Stefan KomandarevPropeler Film
    3, Varšavska str
    10 000 Zagreb
    Croatia
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    www.propelerfilm.com

    Sektor Film
    4, 8-mi Mart str
    1000 Skopje
    Macedonia
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    www.sektor.com.mk

    Credits:
    Director: Stefan Komandarev
    Script: Marin Damyanov, Emil Spahiyski, Stefan Komandarev
    Cinematography: Krasimir Andonov
    Music: Stefan Valdobrev
    Cast: Asen Blatechki, Miki Manojlovic, Ovanes Torosyan, Ina Nikolova, Vasil Vasilev-Zueka, Paraskeva Djukelova, Hristo Mutafchiev