Das geträumte Abenteuer

A film by Valeska Grisebach. From 24 September at the fsk.

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Veska, an archaeo­lo­gist, has retur­ned to her home town of Svilengrad – in the bor­der regi­on bet­ween Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey – for an excava­ti­on pro­ject. To her sur­pri­se, she runs into Said, an old acquain­tance from the Rhodopes, who­se shady busi­ness dealings have brought him to Svilengrad. Said’s car has been sto­len, and Veska invi­tes him to spend the day with her at the excava­ti­on site. It is a hap­py day full of fami­lia­ri­ty, a day like a pro­mi­se. The next mor­ning, Said has disappeared.

Veska fol­lows Said’s trail, del­ving ever deeper into the hid­den lay­ers and rea­li­ties of the town and its peo­p­le – sto­ries from the era of gre­at uphe­aval in the 1990s, of free­dom and shat­te­red dreams, vio­lence and quick money. What does Said have to do with Iliya, the powerful man behind the sce­nes, around whom all the threads seem to con­ver­ge? Veska is forced to con­front her own memo­ries. Supported by her fri­ends from Svilengrad, she beg­ins to wri­te her own story.

Credits:

BG/FR/DE/AT 2026, 164 mins, Bulgarian with German sub­tit­les
Director: Valeska Grisebach
Cinematography: Bernhard Keller
Editing: Bettina Böhler
Starring: Yana Radeva, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov, Stoicho Kostadinov, Nikolay Shekerdjiev, Denislava Yordanova

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