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Vesela Bulgaria Synopsis

Boryo Zevzeka (the Wag) and Kokon Harizanov (the Dandy) are friends. They dream about carefree, luxury life but lack the necessary cash. They two devise a clever scheme: they tell Boryo's wife that they plan to buy and raise a special breed of duck that lays ten eggs a day. The greedy woman gives them the required sum of money. They go to sunbathing and swimming on the bank of the river where they are acquainted with two women. They flirt with them. Kokon buys a lottery ticket. Two days later, he wins the first lottery ticket. He collects the money and chases Boryo away. Offended, Boryo Zevzeka complains to journalists. The next day his photograph appears in the newspapers. The press presents him as the only politician capable of leading the country out of the government crisis. Kokon Harizanov offers him money, the two reconcile and the new Prime Minister entrust the Ministry of Delicate Affairs to him. The Ministry of Delicate Affairs sets up a school for good manners, which sets trends in fashion, determines the length of skirts, and guides clandestine flirting and infidelity. The Ministry of Public Welfare grants everyone a one-year leave. People are having a jolly good time. The festivities never end. Ballerinas perform exotic dances, an all-women jazz band plays, garlands, festoons and confetti fly in the air. Zevzeka disguises as Mephistopheles and Kokon - as Faust. Boryo flirts with an attractive woman whose escort challenges him to duel. Boryo comes out the winner and takes the beautiful woman in his arms... Al of a sudden she turns into a hen, which pecks his nose... It has all been a dream.

An Amateur Devil Synopsis

Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.