Svetoslav Draganov made his feature film debut with a co-production of Bulgaria and Romania
“Life is wonderful, isn’t it?”, “The Merry Boys” and “Young Hearts” are some of the works of directed by Svetoslav Draganov awarded with prizes for documentary film. The co-production between Bulgaria and Romania “Humble” is the debut of Svetoslav Draganov in feature films.
The film met the audience with a 40-year-old documentary filmmaker who did not achieve the dream success. Leaving his own family behind, he puts all his energy into the new film, which tells of the broken family bond between the monk and her mother. When learns that the monk is in psychiatry, his mother will undergo cancer surgery, he decides that he must collect them to capture the emotional finale of his work.
Director of documentary cinema since 2001, director Svetoslav Draganov shared on Radio Sofia that his main idea is to show the interaction of the man behind the camera, making a documentary with his characters.
“My idea was that it looks very real,” Draganov said, adding that he did not divide the films into feature and documentary, but in documentaries there is a much smaller team of people and the connection with the characters is more direct.
“Through my documentaries, I have always strived to reach the inner world of my characters, to show man as a complex image, full of contradictions. It has always been very difficult for me to decide whether to reveal something intimate about the character that is in danger of hurting him, but on the other hand to make the film more exciting. Somehow, naturally, I decided to talk about these dilemmas through the conditions of the feature film.
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