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Bookmark this pageThe Unknown Soldier's Patent Leather Shoes (1979)
Director: Rangel Vulchanov
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From Time Out Film Guide
This is a part-autobiographical reverie of remembered childhood. Filming the Changing of the Guard in London, writer/director Vulchanov accidentally plays a recording of an old harvest song which transports him back to his boyhood country village at the beginning of WWII. It's a lively, affectionate, humourous and deliberately anachronistic (or time non-dependent) re-enactment of bucolic poverty, filtered through the vivid imagination of the appealing ten-year-old Mone (Tsankov), with nice camerawork and a sprightly traditional score.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Rangel Vulchanov
Producer: Zdravko Vatev
Cast: Slavka Ankova, Emiliya Myrynska, Ivan Stoychev, Borislav Tsankov, Nikolay Velichkov, Rangel Vulchanov full cast
Duration: 85 mins
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