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The Flying Machine

1981 · 75 min

A quiet, gentle village tale where a boy's stubborn dream of flight glows against the distant rumble of war.

Directed by
Ognyan Gelinov
Genres
Drama
Starring
Hristo Garbov, Krasimir Dokov, Юлия Кожинкова
Overview
The wars of 1912-1913 pass as a distant echo in Dozhden, a small village in the Rhodopes. Overwhelmed by a dream to fly, the young shepherd Sirachko, the son of a skilled craftsman, set about building an aircraft.

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Directed by
Ognyan Gelinov
Genres
Drama
Starring
Hristo Garbov, Krasimir Dokov, Юлия Кожинкова
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • ambition
  • coming-of-age
  • isolation
  • war
  • family
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour2
Realism7
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Ognyan Gelinov
Written by
Boyan Papasov
Starring
Hristo Garbov, Krasimir Dokov, Юлия Кожинкова, Anani Yavashev, Anya Pencheva, Yordan Spirov, Neli Monedzhikova
Runtime
75 min
Country
Bulgaria
Languages
Bulgarian

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