The Investigation

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Bulgarian-Dutch-German co-production 2006; original title "Razsledvane"; Drama Feature; 35mm colour; 105 minutes; aspect ratio 1:1.85; Dolby SR; original language Bulgarian; available for screening with English and German subtitles

CREDITS

DIRECTOR	Iglika Triffonova
EDITOR	Yodanka Bachvarova
WRITER	Iglika Triffonova
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY	Rali Ralchev
MUSIC	Han Otten
PRODUCER	Rossitsa Valkanova, Petra Goedings, Helge Albers
PRODUCTION COMPANY	KLAS Film, Phanta Vision, Flying Moon in co-production with Bulgarian National TV

CAST

Alexandra	Svetlana Yancheva
Plamen	Krassimir Dokov
Ludmil (Alexandra’s assistant)	Dejan Donkov
Marin (Alexandra’s husband)	Hristo Garbov
Chief Inspector	Kliment Denchev
Plamen’s Wife	Tanya Shahova
Nevena (wife’s friend)	Labina Mitevska
Plamen’s Mother	Emilia Radeva
Alexandra’s daughter	Nikol Krasteva

SYNOPSIS

Parts of a corpse have been found and the suspect, Plamen Goranov, brother of the murdered man, has been detained. He denies the charges and since there is no direct evidence that he has committed the crime the investigation is about to be cancelled. Then a new investigator is appointed - Alexandra Yakimova - and she starts everything from scratch. During the day she interrogates the relatives, friends, colleagues of the two brothers and at night she interrogates Plamen. She hasn't got much time left for her family.
She has chosen solitude for herself and she tries to overcome it by more andmore work. Loneliness is eating Plamen too, and the tough man starts cherishing his encounters with the investigator for the chance to talk toher. The film follows the course of the investigation, focusing on its maintheme – desperate loneliness and how to come to terms with it.