The Unknown Soldier's Patent Leather Shoes
1979 · 85 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 354 VOTES · DIR. Rangel Vulchanov
Overview
A middle-aged Bulgarian is watching the change of the guard in front of the Buckingham Palace. For no apparent reason, while looking, in his mind he gets back to his childhood in the little Bulgarian village, he grew up in. Different rites, different traditions and still he finds something in common. He recalls the people he knew, he feared or admired. He ponders over that life of no brilliance, where people plough, harvest, marry and die, celebrate or grieve. Miracle are also worked, conceived in a unlimited child's imagination. It is the child's perception of the world that helps us to give a meaning to the major questions of human existence.
Dialogue Timeline — 265 lines
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00:00:01 BULGARIAN CINEMATOGRAPHY
00:02:59 GRANDMOTHER SLAVAH Slavka Ankova
00:05:12 that seemed eternal with her traditions. And as I was gaping
00:07:05 Or the sparrow - Don't stare - jump into this trap?
00:08:45 The miracle left here shows that we once had a sea.
00:10:39 and we're to eat it!
00:12:38 Not to interfere with various things. So that they could talk...
00:14:00 But you can't any more! - You dirty bitch!
00:16:34 and my relatives fainted with horror. Only little Black Uncle didn't
00:23:23 Grandpa, why didn't you give Uncle any money?
00:28:56 You want some more?
00:31:20 Granny Slavah had stolen something again!
00:36:16 First World War, European one.
00:39:51 Granny, why do you steal?
00:43:26 And for auntie to be a bride forever, with flowers and gold coins on her head.
00:46:03 Laugh if you want to. But since I'm a man
00:52:30 Thank God, the wedding's here!
01:02:35 Grandpa! Say something! Say anything you want!
01:05:13 Everyone's shouting and singing 'cause a new war's beginning
01:07:26 Grandpa, if you'd just seen the gold church!
01:09:27 Granny!
01:14:16 Auntie, come back, Auntie!
01:19:20 And what's there that doesn't threaten us!