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Time of Violence

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'Time of Violence' is a 1988 Bulgarian film based on the novel 'Time of Parting' by Anton Donchev. It consists of two episodes with a combined length of 288 minutes. It premiered at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival where it was screened in the Un Certain Regard section. The film was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Background



The film's production and release of were concurrent with the 1980s Revival Process. The story is set in contemporary Smolyan Okrug, a region of substantial pomak population, underlining the prevailing theory that pomaks are ethnic Bulgarians who have accepted Islam, regardless of what they identify themselves as.[http://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=684 Briefing: Bulgarias Muslims: From Communist assimilation to tentative recognition]

Plot



The film is set in the Ottoman Empire, in 1668. As Kprl Fazl Ahmed Pasha concentrates his war efforts on the Cretan War, he grows paranoid of the Sultan's Christian subjects, convinced that they are an uncontrollable threat to the empire unless Islamized. One of the targets is Elindenya, a village located in a Rhodope valley where the Christian Bulgarians' way of life was for the most part left alone under the Ottoman governor Sleyman Agha's rule. A sipahi regiment is dispatched to the valley with the mission of converting the Christian population to Islam, by force if necessary. The extraordinary thing is that the regiment is led by Kara Ibrahim, a fanatical devshirme from Elindenya, and although Sleyman Agha, feeling that his self-ordained rule is at stake, objects to forced conversions, Kara Ibrahim favors measures of extreme brutality against the local Bulgarians, including his own family.

Cast



See also



* List of submissions to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

* List of Bulgarian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References




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