The Truck (1980)
1h 48m
Running Time
November 17, 1980Release Date
Plot.
A study in human psychology that uses five disparate characters from clearly defined social positions, this film offers as much insight into the society of a changing Bulgaria, as it does into the minds of individuals in conflict. The story centers around transporting a worker's corpse, in a truck, to the mountain village where he was born. In the truck is: a man who may be suffering from tuberculosis, and who has an unfaithful wife at home; a doctor (the intellectual); a bookkeeper worried over the salaries she pays out; a hermit picked up on the road; and the driver who is a rough-and-ready working-class symbol. The seeds for conflict are set both by the personalities of the five in the truck and by their social background. The director Christo Christov, acknowledges his debt to Henri-Georges Clouzot and the Wages of Fear, for inspiration in the treatment of human conflict, its development through a set storyline, and its resolution in each of the five cases.
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Cast & Crew.
Grigor Vachkov
Dedleto
Lilyana Kovacheva
Milena
Veselin Vulkov
Shteryo
Veselin Vulkov
Shteryo
Djoko Rosic
Chitanugata
Stefan Dimitrov
Doktorat
Christo Christov
Director
Emil Kaluchev
Writer
Details.
Wiki.
The Truck (Bulgarian: Камионът, translit. Kamionat) is a 1980 Bulgarian drama film directed by Christo Christov. It was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival.