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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.

Buntat na robite Synopsis

Bulgaria is under Ottoman domination. Levski, the Bulgarian national hero, arrives in a small town. He gathers the members of the revolutionary committee set up by him but the Turkish authorities get wind of the meeting and the conspirators disperse. A schoolteacher Hristina is in love with Levski. The Turkish spies watch her and the priest Nikola, who sympathizes with the cause. The police arrest them and torture. They torture also Levski's mother - throw her in the well. Changing disguised, Levski closely follows the very posse sent to track him down. After surmounting all sorts of obstacles, he manages to free Hristina. The blinded priest continues to pray for his enslaved brethren. A miracle occurs: church bells start ringing of their own accord. The miracle strengthens the people that liberation is coming soon.