Georgi and the Butterflies is a Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n documentary film from 2004. It was directed by Andrey Paounov

Andrey Paounov

Andrey Paounov is a writer - director best known for his documentary feature films.His debut Georgi and the butterflies won the "Silver Wolf" at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.His second feature The Mosquito Problem and other stories was included in the 46th International...

. The film won the "Silver Wolf" award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.

Plot

Georgi and the Butterflies tells the story of a man and his dream. This man is Dr Georgi Lulchev, a psychiatrist, neurologist, Chinese medicine man, administrator, amateur chef, entrepreneur and Director of the Home for Psychologically Disabled Men. His dream is to organise a farm in the yard of the home, where the patients can raise snails, ostriches and pheasants, produce silk fibres and soybean food. This is a story full of optimism, snails, ostriches, silk, charity, the Eastern Orthodox Church, soybean food, schizophrenics, oligophrenics, psychopaths, Western hunters, misery and compassion. Compassion, business, butterflies.

Reception

Georgi and the Butterflies screened at more than 70 international film festivals and has won numerous awards among which Silver Wolf at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam , Human Rights Award at Sarajevo Film Festival , Don Quixote Award at Cracow Film Festival , Grand Prize at Mediawave , Audience Award at Trieste Film Festival etc. It was the first feature documentary to be released in Bulgarian cinemas. The film was theatrically released in digital cinemas across Europe by CinemaNet Europe in 2005.

External links

• Official website
• CinemaNet Europe