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

Stefan Dimitrov
Doktorat

Djoko Rosic
Chitanugata

Zhivka Peneva

Emil Markov

Yordan Spirov

Nikolay Nachkov

Hristo Krachmarov

Iwan Tomow

Christo Christov
Director / Writer

Emil Kaluchev
Story

Kosta Strandjev
Story

Kiril Tsibulka
Composer

Atanas Tasev
Cinematographer
Details.
Release DateNovember 17, 1980
Original NameКамионът
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 48m
Genres
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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.