Genres
Production Companies
Serpentine
Bulgarian National Film Center
All Stars In
Bulfilm
Bulgarian National Television
Heights (Възвишение)
Everyone wants to live
Overview
One of the most ambitious Bulgarian projects in recent years, Heights is an adaptation of Milen Ruskov's novel of the same name, published in 2011. The film explores the Bulgarian realities of the 1870s a few years before the war, that would liberate the country from the Ottoman occupation. Directed by Victor Bojinov and adapted by Neli Dimitrova, the story follows Gicho a young man in a revolutionary group led by Dimitar Obshti, a real-life revolutionary fighting against the Turks. After a successful train robbery Obshti entrust Gicho with a special mission: to deliver a letter to Vasil Levski, the country's most famous freedom fighter, now considered hero and dubbed The Apostle of Freedom.
Key Crew
Director: Viktor Bozhinov
Writer: Milen Ruskov, Neli Dimitrova, Viktor Bozhinov
Producer: Ivan Doykov
Top Cast
Aleksandar Aleksiev
Gicho
Paraskeva Djukelova
Hristo Petkov
Kiril Efremov
Vassil Mihajlov
Phillip Avramov
Antonio Dimitrievski
