The Eighth

October. 17,1969

Rating：

7.1

Genre：

Drama Action War

Keywords：

World War Ii Anti-fascism

Trailer Synopsis Cast

During World War II, a plane transfers Bulgarian antifascists from the USSR to Bulgaria. They jump with parachutes. The eighth paratrooper heads a guerilla group. In the group, there are doubts about the existence of a traitor. Initially, an innocent person is accused, but later the real traitor is caught and killed. Still, the most dangerous enemies of the guerillas are the colonel and the troops stationed in the nearby village. The battle between them and the guerillas is won by the latter who continue to fight for their cause.

Georgi Georgiev-Getz as Osmiyat

Nikola Anastasov as Chaplin

Meglena Karalambova as Vena

Stoycho Mazgalov as Stamen

Anton Gorchev as Vlado

Djoko Rosic as Petar

Ivan Nalbantov as Levski

Dimitar Panov as Staretzat

Stefan Mavrodiev as Plamen

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Reviews

Jeanskynebu

1969/10/17

the audience applauded

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PiraBit

1969/10/18

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

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Nayan Gough

1969/10/19

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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Philippa

1969/10/20

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Georgi Djulgerov

1969/10/21

The screenplay is based on real events in the life of the legendary partisan commander Chochoolu, who returns in Bulgaria from the Soviet Union at the beginning of WWII. One pitch-dark night, at the head of a small group of paratroopers, he jumps from a plane over the territory of Bulgaria, where amid great danger, and after many police ambushes, he manages to raise a partisan detachment and takes up the challenge of an armed struggle. The filmmakers are chosen the adventure story as the main vehicle in portraying the individual characters and drawing the collective image of the detachment. According to the canons of the genre the partisan commander has many good, even hyperbolic, qualities. He is brave, ingenious, honest, just and, above all, invisible. Some of his actions are quite incredible because they are much too risk. Psychological analysis has given way to action. The characters are sketched in just a few bold strokes since detailed characterization would have interfered with the dynamic flow of the story. Here is a film in which anti-fascist resistance theme has been interpreted in a fresh and spectacular manner.

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