The story, told in a satirical and surreal note starts on Nov. 10, 1979, ten years before the fall of communism in Europe.
Boryana is determined not to deliver a baby in communist Bulgaria but, despite the efforts to protect herself against an unwished pregnancy, her child survives. Thus, Viktoria comes to world without an umbilical cord that connects her to her mother and she’s proclaimed “the child of the decade”, becoming the symbol of communist Bulgaria.
While growing up she dominates all those around her and is at constant war with her mother - the one who did not want her. In 1989, when the regime is about to be changed, Viktoria sees her life turned upside down and the hindering of the new established state of things bring her back towards her mother.
You can watch a video from the film’s launching on
AaRC.
The film was awarded 10 prizes and is part of the Bulgarian New Wave, was very well received internationally (over 70 Film festivals-among which Cannes, Sundance, Berlin etc. The film was ranked 21 in the TOP BEST FOREIGN FILMS OF THE 21st CENTURY.
It is a co-production between Viktoria films – Bulgaria and Mandragora (Romania) and it was launched in the Romanian Cinemas in Nov. 2016. In Timișoara it will be screened in a unique screening at the local National Theatre.
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