Veselin Vulkov

A pair of rebellious high school students get thrown out of home and school, then drift from job to job. Bulgaria's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990

A study in human psychology that uses five disparate characters from clearly defined social positions, this film offers as much insight into the society of a changing Bulgaria, as it does into the minds of individuals in conflict. The story centers around transporting a worker's corpse, in a truck, to the mountain village where he was born. In the truck is: a man who may be suffering from tuberculosis, and who has an unfaithful wife at home; a doctor (the intellectual); a bookkeeper worried over the salaries she pays out; a hermit picked up on the road; and the driver who is a rough-and-ready working-class symbol. The seeds for conflict are set both by the personalities of the five in the truck and by their social background. The director Christo Christov, acknowledges his debt to Henri-Georges Clouzot and the Wages of Fear, for inspiration in the treatment of human conflict, its development through a set storyline, and its resolution in each of the five cases.

Une jolie femme, divorcée, mère d'un enfant, travaille comme secrétaire dans un institut de recherche. Elle passe un diplôme en candidate libre. Tout cela semble tout à fait normal. En fait, elle éprouve de sérieuses difficultés: elle a un problème avec son ex-mari, son enfant traverse une période difficile, un flagorneur de l'institut fait pression sur elle, et la femme jalouse de son patron fait des rapports malveillants contre elle. Elle est obligée de se battre chaque instant et de transgresser ses propres principes pour survivre.