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Bookmark this pageThe Goat Horn (1972)
Director: Metodi Andonov
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A straightforward 17th century tale of revenge which comes to the screen with the well-worn air of a film made at least a decade earlier. A Bulgarian farmer raises his daughter as a boy, training her to kill the men who raped and murdered her mother, a role against which she eventually revolts. The film fails because it refuses to explore the girl's growing awareness beyond the basic requirements of the plot, except once in a scene where she watches one of her mother's killers make love to a woman. In this instance her realisation of the inadequacies of her own concepts, founded as they are on revenge, is confidently handled. Elsewhere, as in her subsequent relationship with a young shepherd, cliché predominates. Altogether something of an anachronism.Author: CPe
Cast & crew
Director: Metodi Andonov
Cast: Katia Paskaleva, Anton Gortchev, Milene Penev, Kliment Dentchev full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 97 mins
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