A Concise History of the Socialist Realism (2012)

The documentary film explores historically the phenomenon of the Socialist Realism. Using a lot of archives, footage, photos, documents and analysis of the processes in art, the authors show the clearest manifestations of the Socialist Realism and trace the origin, bloom and the decline of this method. With pain and humor the film tells dramatic human stories and shows the works of talented authors and artists in Bulgaria. The film also reveals the conditions in which the artists lived and worked and shows how the cultural policy of the USSR dominated the processes in the country and the entire socialist region.