Villa Zone
{{Infobox film
| name = Вилна зона
Vilna zona
(Villa Zone)
| image = Villa Zone.jpg
| caption = The main characters depicted on the new DVD cover. Yonko (Itzhak Fintzi, bottom) his wife Stefka (Katya Paskaleva), Stefka's brother Mincho Minchev (Naum Shopov, left) and the "problem" neighbour Pervazov (Anton Karastoyanov, above).
| director = Eduard Zahariev
| writer = Georgi Mishev
| cinematography = Radoslav Spasov
| starring = Itzhak Fintzi
Katya Paskaleva
Naum Shopov
| music = Kiril Donchev
| studio = Bulgarian Cinematography
Studio of Featured Films (SFF)
Film Unite Mladost
| released = {{Film date|1975}}
| country = Bulgaria
| runtime = 79 minutes
| language = Bulgarian
}}
Villa Zone ({{langx|bg|Вилна зона|translit=Vilna zona|italic=yes}}) is a Bulgarian comedy-drama film released in 1975, directed by Eduard Zahariev, starring Itzhak Fintzi, Katya Paskaleva, Naum Shopov, Anton Karastoyanov, Evstati Stratev, Valcho Kamarashev and Georgi Rusev.
The movie presents the popular tradition in Bulgaria, during the last decades of the 20th century, of organizing a feast in honor of just graduated at the school boys who have to join the army as recruits. In this particular case, the event is taking place in one of the so-called villa zones which are located around the towns. A sunny autumn day is gradually covered by the conflicts between generations, between neighbors and between different social statuses.
The film won a Special Prize of the Jury at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073905/awards Villa Zone imdb awards][http://www.kviff.com/en/about-festival/history-past-years/1976/ Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1976] Villa Zone is one of the hits of the Bulgarian cinematography from those years.{{cite book|last=Gencheva|first=Galina|title=Bulgarian Feature Films encyclopedia|year=2008|publisher=Publishing house "Dr Ivan Bogorov"|location=Sofia|isbn=978-954-316-069-3}}
Cast
- Itzhak Fintzi as Yonko (Emo's father)
- Katya Paskaleva as Stefka (Yonko's wife)
- Naum Shopov as Mincho Minchev (Yonko's brother-in-law, Stefka's brother)
- Anton Karastoyanov as Pervazov (the "problem" neighbour)
- Evstati Stratev as the correspondence student
- Valcho Kamarashev as the cousin
- Georgi Rusev as a friend neighbour
- Stefka Berova as Mihaylova
- Ivan Yanchev as Nedev (Yonko's boss)
- Nevena Simeonova as Nedev's wife
- Grozdan Dobrev as Emo (Yonko and Stefka's son)
References
{{reflist}}
=Sources=
- {{cite book|last=Gencheva|first=Galina|title=Bulgarian Feature Films encyclopedia|year=2008|publisher=Publishing house "Dr Ivan Bogorov"|location=Sofia|isbn=978-954-316-069-3|ref=refFilmArchive}}
- {{cite book|last=Kovachev|first=Pencho|title=50 Golden Bulgarian Films|year=2008|publisher=Publishing house "Zahariy Stoyanov"|location=Sofia|isbn=978-954-09-0281-4|ref=refGoldenFilms}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0073905|Villa Zone}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20101214044924/http://bnt.bg/bg/movies/details/326/vilna_zona Villa Zone] at the Bulgarian National Television {{in lang|bg}}
Category:1970s Bulgarian-language films
Category:Bulgarian comedy-drama films
Category:Films set in Bulgaria
Category:Films shot in Bulgaria