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Dyavolat v Sofia Synopsis

The devil is bored in his kingdom. He makes up his mind to descend to earth and get familiar with the kind of life people lead. He chooses the city of Sofia for his excursion. His first contacts are by no means encouraging. Strolling along the streets in the capital in his outlandish Mephistophelean costume, he is chased and stoned. Then the devil puts into operation his tiny machine for printing money. Dressed in the latest fashion he continues his walk unmolested. Money opens the doors of the richest homes for him and he soon becomes a member of the capital city's high life. The devil chooses a prostitute as his partner, who introduces him to her family. The father is a thief and a drunkard so that the mother is forced to be the bread-winner. Satan and the prostitute find themselves in the whirl of easy life. A young high society woman asks him to murder her elderly husband so that she may inherit his wealth. He refers her to his companion's father who willingly helps her. After the murder, the old crook steals the money-printing machine and flees. The Devil leaves without resources. High society expelled him in disgrace. More dead than alive, convinced that people are much wicked than he is, he manages to return to hell with great difficulty. Not for the world will he substitute hell for Sofia.

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.