Movie/documentary

Letter To America

by Iglika Triffonova. Bulgaria/Holland/Hongaria, 2001, 90 min. Bulgarian/English spoken with Dutch subt. Can a long-lost song save a friend from death in a New York Hospital? Kamen an aspiring theatre director emigrates from Bulgaria to America to work in New York. His best friend Ivan a frustrated, but aspiring writer, stays behind in Sofia with his girl-friend Nina. One night, Ivan learns that his best friend has suffered a possibly fatal car accident in New York and is in hospital in a coma. Denied an America visa to be by his friend, Ivan hitch-hikes across Bulgaria armed with a video camera to the village where Kamen was born in search of his friends grandmother. He remembers that she used to sing a song bout life that passes as a Shadow a song that can resurrect the dead according to Bulgarian folklore. A song that may save his friends life. Ivans odyssey explores friendship, sanity, myth, faith, inspiration, death, life and hope. Cast: Phillip Avramov, Ana Papadopulu, Peter Antonov

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DVM - 1 disk
Release date
13-11-2012
Label
Item-nr
431387
EAN
8717903485415
Availability
In stock
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