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Sled pozhara nad Rusiya Synopsis

After the civil war in Russia, the white guard officer Aleksey emigrates to Bulgaria. He earns his living as a boatman. Nataliya Noykova, the wife of a mining engineer, is on holiday in the town. She and her friends hire Aleksey's boat. He falls for Nataliya and follows her. Aleksey works as a miner under the supervision of a man nicknamed The Hunchback. He fancies Rositza, granddaughter of the engine-driver Old Ivan, and makes rude passes at her. Aleksey rushes to her help. The two men fight... The workers are enjoying themselves at the festival of the colliery. Nataliya and Aleksey arrange for their next date. The Hunchback spies them. He blackmails Nataliya threatening reveal her secret to her husband if she does not agree to go to bed with him. Disgusted at his proposal she hits him. Nataliya send a letter to Aleksey through Rositza. The girl goes down to the pit and hands it to him. The Hunchback comes. Aleksey decides to kill him. He chases him through the galleries: the fleeing supervisor trips over some explosives, which go off. The Hunchback dies while Aleksey is badly injured. In a hospital, Aleksey is delirious: he reviews "the fire over Russia"...

Bezkrustni grobove Synopsis

September 1923. The peasant uprising breaks out in Bulgaria. The village of action has remained largely unaffected by the stormy political events. The village mayor and the tax collector Rangel plot a provocation by means of which they hope to get rid of several inconvenient fellow-villagers. The peasant Nayden and his wife Lilyana return from the field. They stop in the village to buy a few things and Nayden stays behind in the pub. Rangel who fancies her follows Lilyana. Lilyana threatens to tell her husband. Driven by ambition and malice the tax collector stages an attack on the mayor's office that very evening. A police detachment led by the plain-clothes agent Kocho arrives from the town. He arrests Nayden and tortures him. Together with other detainees, he has to be taken to the town. Nayden's brother Momchil comes back from the army. He attempts to free his brother. Kocho wounds him. Momchil recovers and goes to the field to till the land. Lilyana brings him his lunch. The two see Nayden walking from the town. Once again, they are together.