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Tzvetanka

Summary: Youlian Tabakov tells the checkered life story of a Bulgarian woman who survived three political regimes: monarchy, socialism and the present day. The director interweaves the documentary material with animated and staged sequences to produce a stream of imaginative and surprising images. His grandmother, Tzvetanka Gosheva, was born in 1926 to a rich merchant’s family, which enabled her to attend a privileged school in Sofia. But this bourgeois background became her downfall after the war. Her parents were imprisoned as enemies of the party; her father would never recover from this. By sheer luck she managed to get permission to go to university. She became a doctor, though she suffered humiliation and obstruction in her work. Nonetheless, she remained in the country, even though she would have had opportunities to go abroad. Ironically, her last working day was 10 November 1989; the day Todor Zhivkov was overthrown. What follows is called democracy. Tzvetanka’s eye for politics remains sharp even though she is slowly going blind. To her the new system is corrupt.

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
DVD-ROM	OSA Film Library	FL Record 3143	Available	-	-
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 3143 (HU_OSA_00004781.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format