VIKTORIA

By Maya VITKOVA

BULGARIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER - as FIN

Drama - Completed 2013

Told in three parts and spanning several decades, Viktoria is both intimate and epic, unfolding a mother-daughter story while also working as a wry, philosophical fable with broad historical scope.

    • Year of production
    • 2013
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • BULGARIA, ROMANIA
    • Languages
    • BULGARIAN
    • Duration
    • 155 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Maya VITKOVA
    • Writer(s)
    • Maya VITKOVA
    • Producer(s)
    • Maya VITKOVA (Viktoria Films), Anca PUIU (Mandragora)
    • 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?