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The Petrov File (2015)
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Original name: Dosieto Petrov
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the late 1980s, stage actor Alexander Petrov is banned from theatre without any apparent reason. When he reappears, after the demise of the Communist regime, he discovers that he had been denounced by the one man he admired most, his master and friend. He discovers this fact at the very moment that he is called upon to deliver a funeral eulogy for the man. Devastated, Petrov declares that he is retiring from public life. That’s when Markov offers his help. An old acquaintance, Markov was a former director of the secret service, who has become a successful businessman. Now, in the mid-1990s, the country is wracked by unretstrained capitalism, along with violence and gang wars. Markov, an admirer of Petrov’s stage talents, offers to make him the leader of a new political party aiming at rescuing the country. Can this work? Is Markov the right man to be allied with? Petrov must make a fateful decision.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, bleak, melancholic, art house, existential, political drama, nostalgic
Plot:
betrayal, theater, life is a bitch, actor, problem, secret, political unrest, corruption, power struggle, moral dilemma, frustration, moral ambiguity, character study, political manipulation, post soviet, ambition, secret police, organized crime, gang violence, slow burn, stage
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
eastern europe
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