A farmer's ego vs. the collective: communist propaganda disguised as cinema therapy.
The main character of this propaganda story is a farmer Mito Petrov, who joins an agricultural cooperative, but aspires to independent farming and cannot accept the innovations in agricultural work that are introduced by the management of the cooperative. The village rich, seeing his discontent, want to use Petrov's Mito to harm the cooperative. Petrov gives in to their pressure and leaves the collective farm, but in the end he admits his mistake.
Acting
Ivan Bratanov's face crumples beautifully under the weight of wrongthink.
Production
Authentic village sets that scream 'we had three rubles and a dream.'
Director
Dako Dakovski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was peak Bulgarian socialist realism: the state's favorite genre where personal ambition always loses to the greater good, and audiences had no choice but to agree.
Director Dako Dakovski was a party loyalist whose entire career depended on making films exactly like this—Mito's 'troubled road' mirrored the career path of anyone who wanted to keep making movies in 1955 Bulgaria.
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