Place Under the Sun

Place under the sun (Myasto pod slantzeto)
Directed by	Rumen Surdzhiyski
Written by	Tziliya Lacheva
Produced by	Studios for Feature Films - Second Creative Team
Starring	Maria Kavardjikova Elzhana Popova Emilia Radeva Dorotea Toncheva Tzvetana Dyankova Minka Syulemezova Antoaneta Kolarova Zlatina Todeva Desislava Stoycheva Stefan Mavrodiyev and others...
Music by	Antoni Donchev
Release date	16/02/1986 (16/02/1986)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Bulgaria
Language	Bulgarian

"Place under the sun" (Bulgarian: "Място под слънцето" or "Myasto pod slantzeto")is Bulgarian feature film (drama) from 1986, by the director Rumen Surdzhiyski. Screenplay writer is Tziliya Lacheva. Cinematographer is Teodor Yanev. The music of the film is composed by Antoni Donchev. Production designer is Tzvetana Yankova and costume designer is Epsimania Banova. The film was shot in the then emblematic factories from the Bulgarian textile industry - the wool-textile factory "Dimitar Blagoev" in Kazanlak and "8th of March" factory in Sofia. Today, those factories do not operate anymore.

About the film

"Place under the sun" is a portrait of the womеn, working in the textile industry, who live "without makeup and face patch". The screenplay writer knew well the life and nature of her characters, their their pains and aspirations. In the screenplay everything looked vital, plausible, convincing, it was simply "asking" to be trasfered to the screen.

In this period of development of Bulgarian cinema, there was an acute lack of works, in which the main character was the common worker. Their world also deserved to be studied, described and recreated. The film was made by the canons of ideological and aesthetic requirements, which existed at the time, but is an honest attempt to fill this gap.

(Rumen Surdzhiyski)

Cast

Cast overview:

Maria Kavardjikova as Nikula Elzhana Popova as Kina Emilia Radeva as Damyana Dorotea Toncheva as Leftera Tzvetana Dyankova as Hadzhikoleva Minka Syulemezova as Kaliopa Antoaneta Kolarova as Violeta Zlatina Todeva as Sofka Desislava Stoycheva as Spaska Stefan Mavrodiyev as the Director Andrey Andreev as Lyuli Dimitar Banenkin as Damyana's son Nikola Todev as Bay Petko Radko Dishliev as Asen Hristo Stoykov as The little Dancho

and others...

Sources

• "Encyclopedia Bulgarian Cinema AZ - Personalities, Films", Author: Alexander Yanakiev, Titra Publishing House, 2000, ISBN 9549048624, pp. 447 - 448
• "April Literary Discussion", Publisher: Union of Bulgarian Writers, 1986 (the original is from the University of Michigan), book 1, p. 181

External Links

• Myasto pod slantzeto at IMDb