Pogled kroz film na bugarsko-srpske odnose: analiza bugarskog igranog filma Kradljivac bresaka
A View on Bulgarian-Serbian relations through Film: Analysis of Bulgarian Feature Film The Peach Thief

Summary/Abstract: The article is based on the assumption that the film can be viewed and analyzed as a historical source, valid for making relevant conclusions. It is proved by the fact that the knowledge obtained through analysis of the film partially overlap or widen the existing historiographic knowledge about Bulgarian-Serbian relations. However, content analysis and historical context in which The Peach Thief was made, history of the ideas that led to its final form, analysis of personalities of film director and writer of novel on which the film was based, have shown that the feature film, as a source, unlike archival documents, provides a complete and comprehensive look at the past, can comprise of far more topics than this might seem at first glance: self-perception of Bulgarian society and its values in group portraits of military and political elite, and Bulgarian families in the war; perception of “the other” or the enemy, in the personalities of Serbian and French prisoners of war, relations between the socialist system in national history and film as a tool suitable for displaying “desirable” history, or film as a “place of consensus”, relations between the Socialist and Christian ideology, points of their overlapping and connecting, and the question of value changes in piece of art such as film, which inevitably occurred in the course of time.

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