MOON LAKE

By Ivan STANEV

MYNDSTORM PRODUCTIONS - as SALES All rights, World / PROD / PROMO

Art - Culture - Completed 2009

Ivan Stanev’s non-linear narration is a poem driven by emotions, intuition and mindful thinking.
A modern Orpheus and Eurydike travel a postapocalyptic world at the end of every landscape. Irritatingly poetic and beautiful. A trip through a dying world of madness, poetry, philosophy and trance.

    • Year of production
    • 2009
    • Genres
    • Art - Culture, Environmental, Experimental
    • Countries
    • BULGARIA, GERMANY, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, RUSSIAN, GREEK, BULGARIAN, SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ivan STANEV
    • Producer(s)
    • Donka ANGELOVA
    • Synopsis
    • A boy and a girl, two moony, precocious lovers, each morning greet the rising sun on the bow of a grounded crude-oil carrier, named „Moon Lake“. The game of love they play is that of Thracian singer Orpheus, who ascends from the Underworld, followed by his beloved mistress, Eurydice.

      The lovers‘ innocent game lure the shadows of the mythical couple. They rise from a lunar marsh, on the road again, from antiquity into the future, treading quietly in the footsteps of the past...

      Moon Lake has a nonlinear narrative structure and uses a leitmotiv technique with recurring themes and day dreams. It focuses not on suspense but on distorted contemplation. The film follows the parallel stories of two couples that represent the doomed lovers Orpheus and Eurydice of Greek mythology.

      MOON LAKE has been dormant for a long time - but it's enchanting imagery from the beauty of nature to the devastating destruction of nature through civilisation, plus the philosophical look on mankind's role within nature make it more relevant now than ever.

      Moon Lake is a 2009 Bulgarian-German-French art film written and directed by Ivan Stanev. So far, it only was presented at Sofia Film Fest 2010 and Cyprus IFF 2012 without broader distribution. The 2018 version of this hidden gem is presented by advanced coproducers Kathrin Brunner and Oliver Czeslik.