Letter to America

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Bulgarian-Dutch-German-Hungarian co-production 2000; Original title "Pismo do Amerika"; Drama Feature; 35mm colour; 105 minutes; aspect ratio 1:1.66; Dolby SR; original language Bulgarian; available for screening with English and German subtitles

CREDITS

DIRECTOR/WRITER	Iglika Triffonova
EDITOR	Yodanka Bachvarova, Floor Smal
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY	Rali Ralchev
MUSIC	Milcho Leviev
Sound	Robert Juhasz
PRODUCER	Rossitsa Valkanova, Petra Goedings, Laszlo Kantor
PRODUCTION COMPANY	KLAS Film, Phanta Vision, National Film Centre, EURIMAGES, ZDF/arte, Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation in co-production with Boyana Film and Bulgarian National TV

CAST

Ivan	Philip Avramov
Nina	Ana Papadopulu
Kamen	Peter Antonov
The Counsellor	And Barret
Seidgy	Yoshihiro Terazono
Mitko	Dimitar Krivokapov
Doda Petra	Svetlana Yancheva

SYNOPSIS

´Can a long-lost song save a friend from death in a New York hospital?´
Kamen an aspiring theatre director emigrates from Bulgaria to America to work in New York. His best friend Ivan a frustrated, but aspiring writer, stays behind in Sofia with his girl-friend Nina. One night, Ivan learns that his best friend has suffered a possibly fatal car accident in New York and is in hospital in a coma. Denied an America visa to be by his friend, Ivan hitch-hikes across Bulgaria armed with a video camera to the village where Kamen was born in search of his friend´s grandmother. He remembers that she used to sing a song `About life that passes as a Shadow`, a song that can resurrect the dead according to Bulgarian folklore. A song that may save his friend´s life. Ivan´s odyssey explores friendship, sanity, myth, faith, inspiration, death, life and hope.