2016 · drama · satire · social
Glory
Directed by Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov1h 41m2016
When Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker, finds millions of lev on the train tracks, he decides to turn the entire amount over to the police. Grateful, the state rewards him with a new wristwatch… which soon stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, the head of PR for the Ministry of Transport, loses his old watch. Here starts Petrov’s desperate struggle to get back not only his old watch, but his dignity.
Our read: Glory (2016) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · satire · social entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / satire, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- bleak
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