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The Achilles heel
2024

The Achilles heel

Dimitar Dimov is the author of three novels, two of which - 100 years after his birth - are still among the most read and loved by Bulgarian readers. What is unique in Dimitar Dimov's worldview and sensibility? What are the stings of creating him as a person? What are the secrets of his unique literary world? What is the "Achilles heel" of his creative insights?

The film seeks answers to these questions through the written word of the author himself, as well as through the memories of people close to his heart.

February 18, 2024
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The Achilles heel
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  • Dimitar Dimov's last unfinished novel is the title of an unconventional documentary about the writer, created in honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth in 2009 / June 25, 1909 - April 1, 1966 /

    "He chose his profession as a veterinarian, following his dream of living in Latin America, but remained a writer and the greatest classic in Bulgarian literature of the second half of the twentieth century."

    A mosaic of memories, archives, photographs and faces presents the author's world between yesterday and today with different perspectives on his talent, presence, habits, obsessions, fears, and petty vices. In contemporary form, the film explores the mystery within a talent.

    With Anna Svitkova - curator of the Dimitar Dimov house-museum, Lilyana Dimova and Lena Levcheva - wives, Sibila Dimova - daughter, Malina Poplilova - godmother, Prof. Angel Todorov - student and assistant to Prof. Dimov, Mihail Nedelchev - literary critic, Nikola Korabov - director of the film adaptation of the novel "Tobacco", Dilyana Kovacheva - lecturer at the University of Grenada, Lyudmila Geneva - sister, the voice of the late wife Nelly Dospevska.

    2010 - XVIII Festival of Bulgarian documentary and animated cinema "Golden Rhyton" in Plovdiv - special award of the jury for: "masterful penetration into the spiritual and intimate world of a Bulgarian author of European scale"

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