| Georgi and the Butterflies | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Andrey Paounov |
| Produced by | Martichka Bozhilova |
| Written by | Andrey Paounov |
| Music by | Ivo Paounov & Vihren Paunov |
| Cinematography | Boris Misirkov & Georgi Bogdanov |
| Editing by | Zoritsa Kozeva |
| Distributed by | TV 2 / Danmark |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | Bulgaria |
| Language | Bulgarian |
Georgi and the Butterflies is a Bulgarian documentary film from 2004. It was directed by Andrey Paounov. The film won the "Silver Wolf" award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
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Georgi and the Butterflies tells the story of a man and his dream. This man is Dr Georgi Lulchev, a psychiatrist, neurologist, Chinese medicine man, administrator, amateur chef, entrepreneur and Director of the Home for Psychologically Disabled Men. His dream is to organise a farm in the yard of the home, where the patients can raise snails, ostriches and pheasants, produce silk fibres and soybean food. This is a story full of optimism, snails, ostriches, silk, charity, the Eastern Orthodox Church, soybean food, schizophrenics, oligophrenics, psychopaths, Western hunters, misery and compassion. Compassion, business, butterflies.
Georgi and the Butterflies screened at more than 70 international film festivals and has won numerous awards among which Silver Wolf at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam , Human Rights Award at Sarajevo Film Festival , Don Quixote Award at Cracow Film Festival , Grand Prize at Mediawave , Audience Award at Trieste Film Festival etc. It was the first feature documentary to be released in Bulgarian cinemas. The film was theatrically released in digital cinemas across Europe by CinemaNet Europe in 2005.