The read
A Balasaur Score of 59 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes 81%, Metacritic 55/100. It runs long at 2h 35m.
Synopsis
Dreaming of the West, Boryana is determined not to have a child in communist Bulgaria. Nonetheless, her daughter Viktoria enters the world in 1979, curiously missing a belly button, and is declared the country’s Baby of the Decade. Pampered by her mother state until the age of nine, Viktoria’s decade of notoriety comes crashing down with the rest of European communism. But can political collapse and the hardship of new times finally bring Viktoria and her reluctant mother closer together
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes81%
Metacritic55/100
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Maya VitkovaDirector
- Maya VitkovaWriter
- Kaloyan DimitrovOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Irmena ChichikovaBoryana
- Daria VitkovaViktoria (2nd age)
- Kalina VitkovaViktoria (3rd age)
- Mariana KrumovaDima
- Dimo DimovIvan
- Georgi SpasovTodor Zhivkov
- Anastasia IngilizovaCast
- Svetoslav DraganovSando
- Simeon TsolovStefcho (2nd age)
- Ivo KaramanskiStefcho (3rd age)
- Miroslav PashovSocialist Man
