Silence with Dignity

Silence with Dignity is a documentary about the life and work of the famous Bulgarian film directors, the family of Irina Aktasheva and Hristo Piskov. It is a story about their emblematic films and of those whose realization was banned, the criteria according to which a film was classified as „too dangerous" under communism, the mechanisms of censorship, their persistence and creative survival and their silence charged with dignity. The film reveals unknown details of the history of Bulgarian cinema and the link between the political elite and the intelligentsia at the time. (Sofia International Film Festival)