Viktoria

A slow, somber immersion into a child's strange celebrity and a mother's quiet resentment, heavy with history.

Directed by

Maya Vitkova

Genres

Family, Drama

Starring

Irmena Chichikova, Daria Vitkova, Kalina Vitkova

Tagline

- Let's think of a name for the baby... - What baby?

Overview

Dreaming of the West, Boryana is determined not to have a child in communist Bulgaria. Nonetheless, her daughter Viktoria enters the world in 1979, curiously missing a belly button, and is declared the country’s Baby of the Decade. Pampered by her mother state until the age of nine, Viktoria’s decade of notoriety comes crashing down with the rest of European communism. But can political collapse and the hardship of new times finally bring Viktoria and her reluctant mother closer together

How it feels

Melancholic, dark, satirical and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Family, identity, politics, parenthood

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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