Heights

Nov 10, 2017

2h 0m

★ 7.6

Everyone wants to live

Overview

One of the most ambitious Bulgarian projects in recent years, Heights is an adaptation of Milen Ruskov's novel of the same name, published in 2011. The film explores the Bulgarian realities of the 1870s a few years before the war, that would liberate the country from the Ottoman occupation. Directed by Victor Bojinov and adapted by Neli Dimitrova, the story follows Gicho a young man in a revolutionary group led by Dimitar Obshti, a real-life revolutionary fighting against the Turks. After a successful train robbery Obshti entrust Gicho with a special mission: to deliver a letter to Vasil Levski, the country's most famous freedom fighter, now considered hero and dubbed The Apostle of Freedom.

Genres

Drama

History

Comedy

Production Companies

Dream Factory Macedonia

Serpentine

Bulgarian National Film Center

All Stars In

Bulfilm

Bulgarian National Television

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Cast

Gicho

Aleksandar Aleksiev

Paraskeva Djukelova

Hristo Petkov

Kiril Efremov

Vassil Mihajlov

Phillip Avramov

Antonio Dimitrievski

Malin Krastev

Stoyan Doychev

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