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Buntat na L. (2006) is a Russian,Bulgarian movie. Kiran Kolarov has directed this movie. Zachary Baharov,Valentin Ganev,Hristo Garbov,Dicho Hristov are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2006. Buntat na L. (2006) is considered one of the best Action,Drama movie in India and around the world.
On the night of graduation prom the credit to the English Language School, Loris tries to escape to the West, but he is betrayed and captured. Charged with political motivation, Loris is sentenced. The year is 1986. The slogan written in red letters onto the wall in the prison is: If you don't know - we will teach you, if you can't - we will show you how, if you don't want to - we will force you. It is put into practice. Torture, cynicism and physical violence turn the talented young man into an impassive and coldblooded observer. The Berlin wall is falling. Loris is granted an amnesty. Already free, he is alienated and indifferent to the world. In his desperate escape from reality Loris revenges for his ruined life and takes the road to his own destruction. But he meets love. Loris tries to find salvation in yet another flight...
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Buntat na L. (2006) Reviews
a great disappointment
From the trailer and review of the movie, one thing is clear - the ambition of the creators is to combine two recent fashions in (Eastern) European cinema. On the one hand, they try to ride the recently realized bitter-sweet nostalgic wave of reminiscence of the communist past of the region. On the other hand, the movie aims to disclose the post-communist disorientation of the "lost generation" of young people, who graduated from high-school in the last years of socialism; their moral decay under the pressure to die hungry or join the still existing mafia networks between the ex-socialist structures and the their criminal extensions. "The Rebel of L" does not live up to its two ambitious aims. Despite the celebrity cast, the dark stories told and excessive violence displayed, the plot is flat and lacks any message, morale, or, for that matter, suspense. The pre-1989 imprisonment of the young Dinko 'Loris' (L.)Hadzhidinev, who tries to emigrate from Bulgaria in 1986, are not justified; the reason of his escape seems to be his 'restless heart', and 'pride'; the conditions of life in socialist Bulgaria (one of the most brutal and repressive regimes in the former Soviet Bloc), serve simply as a nostalgic and rosy background to the rebel of the young lad; without the necessary mediation, the socialist paraphernalia on display fall short of serving any other purpose, but the Post-Soc version of Holocaust kitsch. The sequence to the prison episode, Loris's post-communist adventures as an employee of his former prison supervisor, and his love story with the Russian prostitute Larissa, are equally not justified. Furthermore, the mafia connections of the former army men with the new-rich in Bulgaria lack any substantial explanation and are thus short of explanatory potential or a clear message about large-scale processes in the Bulgarian society. Unfortunately, "The Rebel of L." is symptomatic: it displays a great flaw of recent Bulgarian cinema: 18 years after the beginning of the Bulgarian transition, the ways to speak about (or against) the actors and act of the last years of communism and the still born transition are less and less daring. The subtle irony and the coded language of movies made under the repressive censure of the communist regime is missing ostensibly. The only thing that remains the same is the poor cinematography, the old-school acting ala-Stansilavski, and the bitter taste for all Bulgarians, that they should still value and rate highly such products of the Bulgarian cinema, because they don't have much choice, really.
I feel so sorry for the Bulgarian cinema
It is nearly 18 years after the fall of communism and still they cannot make a single good film. I feel so sorry for my fellow compatriots and for the Bulgarian cinema as a whole. What can we see in the film - a hilarious plot, sucked from under the script-writer's nails. Utterly illogical and lacking any credibility whatsoever. A medium-level directing - with very rare moments of decent cinema - the rest is just mediocre rubbish. A cast above average - with Deo, Gyrbov, Dicho and ESPECIALLY Rachkov making credible characters (and lacking anything to help them in the script) Still, there is a hope - if we can put an 2,00 (on the scale from 2,00 to 6,00) on the previous attempts of post-totalitarian Bulgarian cinema - this one rises to 2,49 - a way to go, but there is noticeable movement above the dead-point. And just that - a movement. No more.
So so
The film is not that bad. Of course it cannot compete with the US, Spanish, Italian or French movies, but still it has its own beauty - it portrays the Bulgarian post-communist era in a relatively authentic way. Sometimes it seems quite realistic, sometimes quite exaggerated, but still it is better placed as directed by Bulgarians and not by Americans or others. One of its main drawbacks is that is too long. It is a story that could be told in an hour. However, I am afraid that the script is written in a manner as to give a clear idea of what is happening only to those who are really familiar with the Bulgarian reality. Most people from other countries would probably wonder what it is all about. And I think this is exactly why our films could not compete with the foreign movies. They are too badly directed and the script is so narrow-minded that they speak only to Bulgarians...