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The Unwanted

1999 · 52 min

Documentary

★ 7.0
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It is a film about one of the ethnic cleansing in the Balkan Peninsula, which took place in in Bulgaria. The consequences of it are lasting till now. In the mid 80-ies the Bulgarian communist authorities started to forcefully change the Turkish names of about one million ethnic Turks into Bulgarian ones, in an attempt to resolve the ethnic problems that had been piled up for years. The film tells the stories about three women and their divided families. Each of them experienced in her own way this tragedy.

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  • Director Adela Peeva
  • Writer Adela Peeva
  • Writer Svetoslav Ovcharov

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