We Were Young

We Were Young

Infobox Film
name = We Were Young


caption = DVD cover
director = Binka Zhelyazkova
producer = Binka Zhelyazkova | writer = Hristo Ganev
starring = Dimitar Buynozov
music = Simeon Pironkov
cinematography = Vasil Holiolchev
editing =
distributor = Boyana Film
released = 13 March 1961
runtime = 110 minutes
country = Bulgaria
language = Bulgarian
budget =
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"We Were Young" (Bulgarian бяхме млади, "A byahme mladi") is a 1961 Bulgarian drama film directed by Binka Zhelyazkova and written by Hristo Ganev. The film is centres on the Bulgarian resistance to Nazism in Sofia during the Second World War.

Plot

Based in the days of the Bulgarian Resistance during Second World War the film deals with a young anti-fascist underground group combat operating in Sofia. Veska and Dimo are central characters. Their love affair ends because they are apprehended by the police and jailed. Veska is tortured to death and Dimo is burnt alive cruelly. The little photographer girl, Tzveteto, also meets with a violent death, as do all other members of the group. Soon afterwards another group of courageous youth is being formed. Some of them will perhaps not live to enjoy their youth.

Release and acclaim

The film premiered on 13 March 1961 in Bulgaria. The film premiered in Russia in July 1962 at the Moscow International Film Festival and Won the Golden Prize (1959-1967) for director Binka Zhelyazkova. Zhelyazkova was also nominated as director of best picture at the Grand Prix Film Festival in 1961.

Box Office success

A reported 2,303,354 admissions were recorded for the film in cinemas throughout Bulgaria.

Cast

*Dimitar Buynozov as Dimo
*Rumyana Karabelova as Veska
*Lyudmila Cheshmedzhieva as Tzveta
*Georgi Georgiev-Getz as Mladen
*Emilia Radeva as Nadya
*Anani Yavashev as Slavcho
*Georgi Naumov
*Ivan Trifonov
*Dimitar Panov
*Ivan Bratanov
*Dora Stoyanova

ee also

*List of Bulgarian films

External links

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