Canary Season (1993)

  • NR
  • 11/26/1993 (BG)
  • Drama
  • 2h 8m

Overview

It's 1980. Malin is fatherless, angry, and in trouble. At 20, he's spent a year in jail for assaulting a lover of Lily, his mother. In her desk he finds a soldier's photograph and assumes he's found his father. He confronts the man, now a teacher, and gets nowhere. At home again, he mocks his mother. Finally, she tells him her grim story, from the year before his birth. We see a people's court, where Lily's parents seek justice for their grandchild to be. We follow Lily to a prison camp, to the city where she's told to inform on the only person who's been kind, to an asylum, and finally to her current poverty and loneliness. How will Malin respond to these revelations?

Evgeni Mihailov

Director

Nikolai Valchinov

Writer

Cast

Paraskeva Djukelova's headshot

Paraskeva Djukelova

Young Lily
Plamena Getova's headshot

Plamena Getova

Old Lily
Michail Alexandrov's headshot

Michail Alexandrov

Young Marin
Petar Popyordanov's headshot

Petar Popyordanov

Ivan, Father of Malin
Ivo Siromahov's headshot

Ivo Siromahov

Young Fame
Eleftery Elefterov's headshot

Eleftery Elefterov

Slavcho
Nevena Kokanova's headshot

Nevena Kokanova

Aunt Addie
Ani Vulchanova's headshot

Ani Vulchanova

Margarita

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