Производството на история в социалистическото кино: филмът „Легенда за Паисий“
The Production of History in the Socialist Cinema: The Legend of Paisius Movie

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article was to study the mechanisms of the “production of history” in the film The Legend of Paisius (1963) which was released to commemorate 200 years the writing of Slav-Bulgarian history in 1762, a text traditionally associated with the beginning of the Bulgarian National Revival. In the beginning, I studied the institutionalization of this anniversary in Bulgaria as a socialist state. Afterwards, I examined the filmmakers’ perception of “the new Paisius” who was integrated in the new communist mythology. At the end, I illustrated the state’s care of the so-called historical framework through the presentation of extracts from the filmmaking file to serve as evidence. The focus of attention was the presentation of the Turkish and the Greek in the context of the relation between communism and nationalism.

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