Canary Season
Sezonat na kanarchetata
dir. Evgeny Mihailov
Bulgaria, 1993 - 133
A youth, Malin, is released from prison. He pays an unexpected visit to Lily, his mother who lives with the man who betrayed Malin to the authorities. Malin urges Lily to reveal the identity of his father. The film then flashes back to Lily's youth as a high school graduate in a small seaside town, where she is abandoned by her first love and raped by a small-time communist "aparatchik." "Canary Season" then follows Malin's mother's bleak life, which ends with her being committed to a mental hospital. After learning the truth about his life, Malin makes up his mind to visit his seaside birthplace.
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