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VIKTORIA

By Maya VITKOVA

BIG WORLD PICTURES - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, USA

Historical - Completed 2013

- Let's think of a name for the baby…
- What baby?

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance 2014

World Dramatic Competition

Goteborg IFF 2014

Ingmar Bergman International Debut Film Competition

Rotterdam IFFR 2014

Hivos Tiger Competition

Filmfest DC 2014

First Feature Competition

OFF Plus Camera 2014

Youth Jury Award

Transilvania International Film Festival 2014

Special Jury Award

Karlovy Vary 2014

Another View

Galway Film Fleadh 2014

World Cinema International Competition

- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- Historical, First film, Drama
- Countries
- BULGARIA, ROMANIA
- Languages
- BULGARIAN
- Duration
- 155 mn
- Director(s)
- Maya VITKOVA
- Writer(s)
- Maya VITKOVA
- Cast
- Irmena CHICHIKOVA, Daria VITKOVA, Kalina VITKOVA, Mariana KRUMOVA, Dimo DIMOV
- Producer(s)
- Anca PUIU (Mandragora), Maya VITOVA (Viktoria Films)
- Synopsis
- Maya Vitkova’s stunning debut feature Viktoria follows three generations of women in the final years of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria and the early years of the new government, focusing on reluctant mother Boryana and her daughter, Viktoria, who in one of the film’s surreal, magical touches is born without an umbilical cord. Though unwanted by her mother, Viktoria is named the country’s Baby of the Decade, and is showered with gifts and attention until the disintegration of the East Bloc. Despite throwing their worlds off balance, the resulting political changes also allow for the possibility of reconciliation.
  Viktoria is both personal and universal, demonstrating a precocious command of all elements of the filmmaking process—most notably, the film’s visual sensibility and its command of a range of shifting tones, from absurdist humor to political allegory to deeply moving familial drama.