A barrage balloon appears unexpectedly over a Bulgarian village during World War II. The startled villagers decide to knock it down with a fusillade yet the balloon flies off to the mountains. The villagers, armed to their teeth, set off after it. But they are not alone in this undertaking…
CLASSIC CINEMA SECTION
The Tied Up Balloon
Classics O’Clock III, Thursday, March 3rd, 20:00
English title:
The Tied Up Balloon
Original title:
‘Привързаният балон’
Director:
Binka Zhelyazkova
Country:
Bulgaria
Genre:
Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
Year:
1967
Length:
98'
Dialogues:
yes
Subtitles:
-
Cast:
Grigor Vachkov, Georgi Kaloyanchev, Georgi Partsalev
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Selective list of festivals and awards:
Berlin International Film Festival 1989; International Film Festival Rotterdam 1990; Thessaloniki Film Festival 2021; Seville European Film Festival, 2021
Directors’ bio:
Binka Zhelyazkova was a Bulgarian film director. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s.
