

46 minutes to watch artists lose their minds over a whale. Worth it.
A Bulgarian theater company struggles to adapt Herman Melville's epic "Moby Dick" for the stage, revealing the obsessive dedication and creative challenges faced by cast and crew in their quest to bring an unfilmable masterpiece to life.
Direction
Lichev finds poetry in rehearsal room exhaustion
Production
Bulgarian theatre authenticity, zero gloss

Director
Todor Lichev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bulgarian theatre operates on shoestring budgets that would make Western artists weep, yet produces some of Europe's most daring adaptations of canonical texts.
The documentary's 46-minute runtime mirrors theatrical intermission length, a subliminal nod to the form it documents.
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