The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner

The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner is a 2008 Bulgarian drama film, coproduced with Slovenia, Germany and Hungary. Its original Bulgarian title is transliterated as Svetat e golyam i spasenie debne otvsyakade, literally meaning The World is Big and Salvation Prowls on All Sides. correct ... is Lurking from Everywhere.

In a small Bulgarian provincial town during the 1980s, factory worker Vasil Vasko Georgiev Hristo Mutafchiev has problems with the local Communist Party agent Nikolai Urumov who wants Vasko to monitor and report on the activities of his fatherinlaw, Bai Dan Miki Manojlovi. Bai Dan is the local King of Backgammon and is accused by the local authorities of conducting an illegal workshop in which he repairs bicycles and manufactures backgammon sets. Facing a moral dilemma, Vasko decides to emigrate beyond the Iron Curtain to Western Europe with his wife Yana Ana Papadopulu and his son Aleksander Sashko played as a child by Blagovest Mutafchiev. The family succeeds in crossing the border to Italy but face the prospect of lengthy detention in a bleak refugee camp until Vasko is able to pay for them to be smuggled into Germany.The opening sequences jump abruptly from the birth of Sashko to the 2007 autobahn car accident in which his parents are killed on their way back to Bulgaria for the first time since their emigration. Sashko played as an adult by Carlo Ljubek is taken to a hospital with amnesia. His grandfather Bai Dan decides to go to Germany and try to help Sashko restore his past. He starts teaching him to play backgammon. After refusing to play, Sashko is forced by his grandfather to leave the hospital and to start a journey with him on a tandem bicyclea journey back to Bulgaria, to Sashkos past, and to romance and prospects of a happier future. ........

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