Once Upon a Time in the East (2011 film)

Once Upon a Time in the East is a Bulgarian documentary film based on the books by the late Georgi Stoev. The featurelength documentary tells the story of the Bulgarian transition period and includes reconstructions, TV archive from Bulgarian National Television BNT, NOVA TV, bTV and features interviews with contemporary Bulgarian figures like Palmi Ranchev, Atanas Orachev, Rumen Leonidov, Haralan Alexandrov, Andrey Pantev and Georg Kraev. Other witnesses and participants in the power structures tell their stories of the establishment of VIS amp SIC and the fierce brutality that is required to survive the days of the transition.

Bulgaria being part of the Eastern bloc joined the race for freedom and democracy during the 1990s. Thousands flooded the streets speaking their minds with blistering hopes of developing new democratic forms of society. Within a few years the new systems of government transformed released criminals, prisoners and other sportsmen, mainly wrestlers into groups of street gangs, racketeers and security companies. With these gangs of thugs the newly appointed democrats privatized the country...years later one man stood out to tell his and their story...Selected parts of Georgi Stoevs last TV interviews with Bulgarias E host lead the narrative of this film. Other TV archive material with the most spectacular contract killings in Bulgaria illustrate the heavy criminal transition in Bulgaria from the late 1990s up to present day. ........

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