Moth is freed on parole after spending time in prison on wrongful conviction of murder. Jailed shortly before the Bulgarian communist coup of 1944, he now finds himself in a new and alien ...
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Tanya Ilieva | ... | Ada |
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Vladimir Penev | ... | Slug |
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Mihail Mutafov | ... | Van Wurst-the Eye |
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Djoko Rosic | ... | Priest (as Djoko Rossich) |
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Tsvetan Dimitrov | ... | Sergeant Major |
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Dimo Alexiev | ... | Private |
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Jordan Mutafov | ... | Bijou |
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Hristo Peev | ... | Warden 1 |
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Vasil Ryahov | ... | Warden 2 |
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Veselin Mezekliev | ... | Warden 3 |
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Ivo Krastev | ... | Superintendent |
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Dimitar Dimitrov | ... | Mole Cricket |
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Yavor Vesselinov | ... | Valentine |
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Dj Ayvan | ... | Freak (as DJ Ayvan) |
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Moth is freed on parole after spending time in prison on wrongful conviction of murder. Jailed shortly before the Bulgarian communist coup of 1944, he now finds himself in a new and alien world - the totalitarian Sofia of the 60s. His first night of freedom draws the map of a diabolical city full of decaying neighborhoods, gloomy streets and a bizarre parade of characters. Written by vladislav todorov
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The night of the man who chewed asphalt.Parents Guide:
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BulgarianRelease Date:
25 September 2008 (Bulgaria) See more »Also Known As:
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BGL 1,200,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
BGL 37,443 (Bulgaria), 26 September 2008, Limited ReleaseCompany Credits
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This strange, lyrical semi-gangster movie reminded me of "El Topo" and "Eraserhead" in the way it stumbles with deceptive carelessness through its plot. Smalltime thief "Moth", who's lost his youth imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit, is released hoping to jump a freighter to the tropics. Fate and his past intervene.
"Zift" bows to film-noir classics like "Gilda" and "DOA", even lifting plot elements, but this little gem uses their themes only as point of departure, as it does references to "Candide": If all is best in the best possible worlds, all is worst in the worst.
And Soviet-era Bulgaria director Gardev depicts is just that - filthy, casually brutal and airlessly detached. Its denizens gossip via dirty jokes and debase themselves with joyful abandon. It's bracing to see such a depiction, since the "Marxist experiment" of Russia and Eastern Europe is almost sentimentally beheld in most Western media ('course, we didn't live the ugliness of the "paradise"). And a glimmer of humanity and soul in a Christian church surely would keep "Zift" off fashionably dogmatic PBS.
The world of the Moth is as black and spongy as the tar he loves to chew - the "zift" of the title. But there is within it laughter and truth. Highly recommended.