Eastern Plays Page #2

Synopsis: Georgi (Ovanes Torosian) is a typical schoolboy in search of some identity and--being lack of guide, ends up hanging out with the wrong people. Itso (Christo Christov) was a drug addict now undergoing a therapy who finds himself sinking in beers. Through them, we see post cold-war Bulgaria--its freedom, as well as its confusion.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Kamen Kalev
Production: Tiglon
  14 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Year:
2009
83 min
86 Views


I don't know.

It's delicious.

Let's go.

Hello, Kerem!

It's the answering machine.

Kerem! We're spending the night in Sofia.

Expect us in Berlin by Monday.

Lots of kisses.

You don't need to lose weight, Dad.

Of course not!

Mother, why didn't you wear

the sandals I bought you?

Shut up, b*tch!

Look at these Turks on our streets.

Are you a tough guy?

What're you waiting for?

He's yours.

Fish! Go and watch that corner.

You, go to the other side.

He's fallen asleep.

What's happening here?

Shut the f*** up, a**hole!

Georgi!

Georgi!

Georgi, come on!

Hello!

Could you send an ambulance

to Dondukov Street?

I think it's the second one after Levski.

Isil.

Christo.

You don't recognize me or what?

Hi.

Come on, sit down.

Get me a glass.

Cheers!

Thanks for the fork.

Here you are.

Silence is golden!

Do you have a girlfriend?

Yes, I do.

Several.

And that stupid place you work in...

What do you know about it?

What do I know? I know you earn 300 leva.

Isn't that so?

Or he's on the computer, chatting...

"Home"?

You call this your home?

This is not your home. Is it clear?

"Georgi"! All the time "Georgi"!

- What's wrong with me?

- What?

All you know is

Big Brother and Music Idol.

Why are you so interested

in other people's money?

Always asking

how much people make?

What do you do all day long?

Buy washing machines...

That's not true! I'm a hairdresser!

- Will you shut up?

- No. I won't.

You will.

That's it.

- Where'd she come from?

- Hold it...

I have a question for you.

Are you still doing drugs?

Give me a break.

What kind of example

are you for your brother?

Dad, please.

Have you seen yourself in the mirror?

Cut the crap.

Don't talk to me like that!

You've been either stoned or drunk.

It's all the same.

If you're here for money...

- Money?

- I ain't got money!

I came here...

for your spoiled chicken

and to finish your beer.

That woman's totally insane.

Want a smoke?

No.

I don't smoke.

Where did you find those morons?

Why are you hanging out with them?

Don't you get it?

The fat politicians

use those dumb arses and their violence.

You shaved your head.

Give me a smoke.

I thought you didn't smoke.

- I have mine.

- You have yours?

A non smoker, my ass!

How are they?

Ok.

It looks better and better around here.

Buildings, everywhere.

This whole field will be a business center.

They demolished the houses over there.

Soon, there'll be towers all around.

Perfect.

We'll merge with Plovdiv city soon.

How is Mum?

Have you seen her recently?

Georgi, where are you going?

Wait!

were arrested for engaging

in fighting before and after the game.

Prior to the game,

CSKA fans attacked

tourists from Kosovo.

The window of a trolley bus was broken,

wounding a 43-year-old person...

Yes, he's here.

I heard it was a good game.

Even though we lost.

Let me talk to him.

It was a good game even though we lost.

We kicked their asses!

He says they kicked their asses.

Tell him there's already a lot of us.

He says theres already a lot of them.

Tell him to stop showing off.

Mister big boss.

Ok, give him the money.

Of course.

Your father wants to see you.

Just a second, Mom.

Why are you acting like this?

Come on.

Don't talk to these people.

What people?

Stay away from these Bulgarians.

"These Bulgarians"?

Don't talk like that.

I'm asking you...

to stop seeing this guy.

How can you talk like that?

Can't you see he's different?

End of discussion.

Dad, it could have been worse.

You're turning into one of them.

Isil, please let your father rest.

Fish, what happened to Rambo?

I don't know, he always disappears.

What now?

Why won't you answer your phone?

You don't listen to what I say.

Listen to what?

You don't pick up your phone,

how can I hear you?

What's the point of suffering?

But I'm not suffering!

I want to be with you.

Stop talking nonsense, please.

Christo...

You are everything to me in this life.

And how's that supposed to matter?

Rambo...

What's up? I haven't seen you for a while.

What's your problem?

Blow me.

Are you a fag or what?

What?

I said are you a fag?

An insecure fag.

We must strictly enforce

the laws of our country...

You too?

We will reach this goal with the police,

the gendarmerie and the city.

Unemployed gypsies will not be allowed

to leave their designated areas.

Caravans will be barred

from the streets of Sofia.

Let's have a walk.

Maraba, my love.

Go.

Where to?

Just drive. I'll tell you...

later.

Where do you want to...

Where are you from?

Take this ball.

For the girl from the Sun. A gift.

A ball.

For rolling.

Methadone treatment, but...

it doesn't really work.

I started drinking alcohol.

A couple of shots in the morning,

then at lunch

and after work.

And I want to drink even more.

How did I become an alcoholic?

I don't understand.

Where have you been? I was worried!

I went out for a walk.

Didn't your father tell you not to go out?

Ltso...

What again?

I'm so happy to see you.

Last night I realized

we could be just friends...

and share our secrets.

Let's go and see a movie.

There you are.

Thanks.

I'm gonna see the psychiatrist.

All right.

There's nobody waiting.

Please, don't mix up the bottles.

Don't worry.

I guess...

I left my soul in the fridge.

Yes, you can have that feeling.

But I think that, with time,

we can overcome this.

Slowly, but surely.

I almost want to smile!

I hope so.

I still believe we can make it.

It may take a little while.

I'm so nervous.

Yes, I can sense that.

Quickly, slowly, forward, backward,

upward, downward...

Nervous all over.

Sounds like you have nothing to hold on to.

I feel like I've reached...

the bottom.

Like I'm flat on my back.

Smashed.

And you have no strength

to pick yourself up.

I have the strength,

just nothing to hold on to.

I don't need a cane.

I need some kind of a truth to believe in.

Exactly.

I don't remember if we discussed this...

A study shows

that among the best scientists,

Yes, I know.

At the end of his life, Einstein

proved the existence of God.

Yes, my boy.

Isaac Newton explained

his law of energy at the Sorbonne.

He said:
"I've brought you a new law,

"a law of energy.

"It is just transformed."

Scientists asked him:

"How did you discover this?"

And he said:
"Believe it or not,

"God wrote me the answer

in red letters on the wall.

"And the letters were on fire."

So we should never

lose faith and keep hoping.

Never.

I don't know about hope,

but I like the letters on fire.

It's true.

I feel more attracted

by fire than by hope.

Try thinking of everything good in yourself.

I really want to find that little piece

of goodness.

But where is it?

Maybe it's in my heel.

Do I have to take a big needle,

suck it out from here and inject it there.

No, my boy.

Slowly you'll come back to reality.

You'll do it, little by little.

I don't want to be real.

I want to be crystal.

I want to radiate light.

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Kamen Kalev

Kamen Kalev (Bulgarian: Камен Калев) (born 8 June 1975) is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. Kalev came to prominence in 2009 with the film Eastern Plays, earning him numerous international film awards as director and screenwriter. After graduating a highschool in his hometown Bourgas, Kamen Kalev spent two years in Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, studying at first photography, and then switched to cinematography. During his sophomore year he continued his education in moviemaking in the French state film school La Fémis in Paris. Kalev graduated Le Département Image in 2002. more…

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