Stolen Eyes
(2005)
★ 6.7 IMDb · 10 votes
Year: 2005
Runtime: 110 мин
Country: Bulgaria, Turkey
Director: Radoslav Spassov
Cast: Vesela Kazakova, Валерий Йорданов, Нежат Ишлер, Ichak Finci, Stoyan Aleksiev, Джоко Росич, Мария Каварджикова, Николай Урумов, Rangel Vulchanov, Marian Bachev
Plot
This is a story of strange, impossible, inexplicable love between a Muslim Turk woman and a non-Muslim Bulgarian man. Ivan (the Bulgarian) is a pure and romantic young fellow, who gets caught up in the so-called "regeneration process" (when ethnic Turks' names were forcibly changed to Bulgarian ones). He is responsible for the official seals, which is required to issue the new identity documents after the forced name changes. The schoolteacher Ayten tries to steal the seals, thinking that this way she can slow down the ethnic genocide. Their unexpected and unusual meeting brings these two characters together and makes them fell close, forcing Ivan to take a fateful decision -he must either "rename" Ayten, or face the consequences if he does not.