Parched

Jun 10, 2005

1h 30m

★ 2.7

Izpepelyavane

Overview

Two trains uncontrollably move towards each other within temporal boundaries of a human life. One of them is taking a genial young man to his unforeseen future; he would marry his beloved; have a son; become a brilliant doctor; do his duty and save the live of enemies of the communist regime; get a 20-years sentence for that. Prison would turn out to be an unbearable nightmare; his wife would eventually give in to the tortures of the authorities and seek divorce; this would mean no one to visit him in prison. 15 years without any news about his child, only a snapshot of his family on which the tree of them are smiling and happy.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

BNT

Doli Media Studio

Kamera

National Film Centre

Paralax

Vreme Studios

Parched Trailers

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Cast

Kalina

Paraskeva Djukelova

Inspector Metodi Stoev

Deyan Donkov

Enriko

Stefan Valdobrev

Anarchist

Iossif Surchadzhiev

Nachalnikat na lagera

Nikolai Urumov

The Mother

Tzvetana Maneva

Chovechniyat agent

Yordan Bikov

Starshina v lagera

Valeri Yordanov

Kofti

Mario Krastev

Samozhertveniyat

Vasil Banov

Generalat

Svetozar Nedelchev

Katerina Goranova

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