We always get huge compliments, people are very satisfied, they call me from all over Bulgaria. This was written by the director of the much-commented film “Botev”, which aired on BNT.
We have a historical adviser – Prof. Dr. Plamen Pavlov, Genchev stressed. All the while he was looking at the script, which was 80% written from Botev’s advertisements, poems and letters. We rely entirely on historical facts, with no ambitions of making a documentary, because this is a feature film about Botev.
Otherwise, I have not read any criticism so far, except for one screenwriter – Mr. Zhechev. He wrote a wonderful article about the film. But there are no serious reviews of interest. Otherwise, I’ve come across insinuations that someone watched for 2 minutes, then stopped, and then facebooked for half an hour. They are the same, 50-60 haters who have 10 fake profiles each and from one office, let’s say “Yes, Bulgaria”, they are given the recipe against a national film and they start writing the same thing without any arguments.
I am the envy of my fellow viewers. Envy is a form of worship. Deep down they envy me because they don’t have the guts to go out and raise money and make a movie about a character that people will love.
The film will go through some considerations, obstacles. It doesn’t have a black character, it doesn’t have a gay couple, this is the trend of the moment. We behave within the framework of the desired: for people to see patriotism, to see Botev as they imagine it.
Such films are rarely made because the trends are such. The funds that finance the films are linked to the European value system. I recently read about a program allocating 40 million to EU films. He says ethnic films that have a national theme are specifically banned. They want us to make a global company in which there is no history, no originality, to be customers of telephones, of banks. They are pushing society in a different direction which is absolutely impossible for Bulgaria. You can’t take away ice dancing, kukerismo from a Bulgarian. Let us raise the light, the day, in worship. Our holidays are sunny, warm, bread-filled, and draw us to nighttime rituals. to chase spirits, ghosts. They want to push some other traditions but this can’t happen.
