11-03-2013

Komandarev Launches The Judgment at Sofia Meetings

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    The Judgment by Stefan Komadarev The Judgment by Stefan Komadarev

     SOFIA: Bulgarian director Stefan Komadarev (The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner, shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 2010) will show ten minutes from his new film The Judgment at the Sofia Meetings Works in Progress section.

    Komadarev started the editing of his 1.9 m EUR Bulgarian-German-Macedonian-Croatian coproductionbeginning of January this year and plans to finish it by the end of May, 2013.

    The Judgement received development support by the MEDIA programme and was developed at workshops including ScriptEast, EAVE and Sofia Meetings. It received production support from the Bulgarian National Film Center, Bulgarian National Television, MDM, the Medienboard Berlin Brandenbourg, DFFF, the Macedonian Film Fund and the Croatian Audiovisual Centre. The Judgment was also supported with 250,000EUR from Eurimages. The coproducers areAlexander Ris from German Neue Mediopilis Filmproduction, Vladimir Anastasov from Macedonian Sektor Film and Boris T. Matic from Croatia’s Propeler Film.

    The emotional story of a Bulgarian man forced to kill a young GDR couple who tried to escape to the West across the Bulgarian-Turkish border under communism, and two decades later smuggles people from Turkey into Bulgaria, was filmed between 25 October and 21 December 2012 in extremely difficult conditions with 40% night scenes. The main actors Assen Blatechki, Miki Manojlovich, Ovanes Torossian, Vasil Vasilev-Zueka, Ina Nikolova, Paraskeva Djukelova and 30 local people adapted to the cold and often stormy weather, sometimes under “red code” on location mountainous villages and surroundings.

     

    Production Information:

    Argo Film
    29, Slavyanska str.
    1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
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    Neue Mediopilis Filmproduction
    130, Kochstrasse str
    04277 Leipzig,Germany
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    Propeler Film
    3, Varšavska str
    10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
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    Sektor Film
    4, 8-mi Mart str
    1000 Skopje, Macedonia
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    Credits:

    director: stephan komandarev
    Script: stephan komandarev, marin damyanov, emil spahiyski
    DoP: krasimir andonov
    Production designer: Rossitsa Bakeva
    Costume designer:elena Stoyanova
    Script supervisor:Milena Michaylova
    Music:stefan valdobrev
    Editor: Nina Altaparmakova
    Make-up:goran ignjatovski (macedonia)
    Sound recordist: MartinWitte (Germany)
    Sound editor:Olaf Mehl (Germany)
    Photographer: HassanABdelghan (Croatia)
    cast:assen blatechki, miki manojlovic, ovanes torosian, vasil vasilev-zueka, ina nikolova, paraskeva djukelova, meto jovanovski