Haika za vylci

A dramatic saga based on the famous novel by the great Bulgarian writer Ivailo Petrov. Through the intricately entangled human destinies of the characters (several generations of residents of the upland village of Cherkovna) the film portraits the fate of Bulgaria with all its fearful turns and twists from the 1920s to the end of the 1960s. The novel’s messages, successfully re-created on the screen, reach even generations born long after the times of which the film narration tells. People are born and die in the deadlock of Stalinism, many of them becoming victims of their love for the land or for a single woman. This is how the film brings us to the wolf hunt, to the violent urge for revenge and squaring of accounts whose way out rests deep inside one’s soul, in the craving for lost human happiness.