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Chovekat, koyto zabravi boga Synopsis

The clerk Pavel Simov is a compulsive gambler. His last savings are lost gambling and he begins to steal. He attacks a rich woman in the park, grabs her bag and coat and runs away. The police chase him. He leaves the stolen items with his wife Rinka. She cannot prove her innocence and is sentenced as his accomplice. The greengrocer Katerina takes in their three-old-year son Pepi but later sends him to a manger on Rinka insistence. Katerina puts on his neck a small cross left by his mother. Three years later Rinka is released from prison. At the manger, she learns that the child has been given to a foster mother. Hungry, Rinka stops in front of Zoya's bakery. A boy of about six works there. He takes pity on the beggar-woman and gives her two buns for which Zoya gives him a beating. Rinka starts work in a sweet factory. One evening she finds a child sleeping in front of her house and recognizes the boy from the bakery. She is full of joy when she discovers her own cross hanging around his neck. The child remains with his mother. Simov appears soon, after years abroad. He begins to blackmail his wife. One day, when Rinka refuses to give him money, he knocks her over the burning primus. A fire burst out. Simov flees, dragging Pepi behind. Simov drops on the railway track. Pepi manages to pull him aside seconds before a train passes. Simov repents and gives himself up to police. In jail, a priest takes care of him. He succeeds in transforming Pavel Simov. He returns to his family. Rinka reveals to Pepi that he is his father. The child implores her to forgive him and let him live with them.

Bay Ganyo Synopsis

The name of the literary character Bay Ganyo has come to symbolize the negative features of the newly created Bulgarian bourgeoisie after the liberation from Ottoman bondage. Bay Ganyo Balkanski is a political double-dealer. Together with Filyo Gochoglu - "a merchant with capital" and Tanas Dochoglu - "a wine merchant" the three put forward their candidatures for members of the National Assembly. They launch the "National Glory" newspaper. Bay Ganyo has a soft spot for women and the opposition takes advantage of this to discredit him. They send to the editorial office an accomplice disguised as a woman who begins to flirt with Ganyo. Having discovered the fraud, he chases 'her' away. With the help of the scoundrel Danko Hairsazina and the shady characters led by him, Balkanski, Gochoglu and Dochoglu manage to frighten away those voting for the other candidates... After this stormy political and social struggle, Bay Ganyo decides to journey through Europe. Shouldering his saddlebags filled with phials of attar of roses he gets on the train. He arrives in Vienna. He does not let the hotel bellhop carry his precious luggage. In the café, he finds Stoycho, a Bulgarian who acts as his guide. Ganyo keep making passes at the women in the streets and in the cafés. Together with Stoycho, they ride on a train around the Prater, go sightseeing, and have a snack at the food of Maria Theresa's monument paying no attention to the passer-by. After a series of similar escapades, Bay Ganyo returns to Bulgaria.