Collider Interviews | Maria Bakalova Interview: From Borat to Bolstering Bulgarian Film as a Producer @ColliderInterviews | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
In a full circle moment, writer and filmmaker Petar Valchanov returned to the Toronto International Film Festival — where both of his previous films, The Lesson and Glory, premiered — with the final installment in his trilogy, Triumph. With his directing partner Kristina Grozeva, the two reunited with Guardians of the Galaxy's Maria Bakalova for a starring role opposite Julian Kostov (Shadow and Bone) in a tale that seems too unbelievable to be true, and yet ...
Triumph is set in the early '90s, in the years just after the Fall of Communism, and the story is ripped straight from the papers. A Bulgarian task force has been sent to a rural area where they're instructed to locate an ancient artifact. How did they know this artifact was there? Because the head general's psychic, played by Margita Gosheva (The Lesson, Glory), has a telepathic channel to an alien who insists they've been chosen to change the trajectory of humanity. Bakalova plays Slava, a girl the psychic says is a "signal conductor" for the alien, while Kostov plays the part of Private Georgi.
While at the festival celebrating their world premiere, Valchanov, Bakalova, and Kostov dropped by the Collider interview studio at the Cinema Center at MARBL to talk with Perri Nemiroff about the project. Valchanov explains the chronological order of his "absurd" trilogy and talks about wanting to work with his stars, and how the film transformed throughout production. Bakalova and Kostov, who also serve as producers on the film, discuss why they wanted to be a part of this trilogy, how they first met, and why they launched their own production company, Five Oceans.
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In a full circle moment, writer and filmmaker Petar Valchanov returned to the Toronto International Film Festival — where both of his previous films, The Lesson and Glory, premiered — with the final installment in his trilogy, Triumph. With his directing partner Kristina Grozeva, the two reunited with Guardians of the Galaxy's Maria Bakalova for a starring role opposite Julian Kostov (Shadow and Bone) in a tale that seems too unbelievable to be true, and yet ...
Triumph is set in the early '90s, in the years just after the Fall of Communism, and the story is ripped straight from the papers. A Bulgarian task force has been sent to a rural area where they're instructed to locate an ancient artifact. How did they know this artifact was there? Because the head general's psychic, played by Margita Gosheva (The Lesson, Glory), has a telepathic channel to an alien who insists they've been chosen to change the trajectory of humanity. Bakalova plays Slava, a girl the psychic says is a "signal conductor" for the alien, while Kostov plays the part of Private Georgi.
While at the festival celebrating their world premiere, Valchanov, Bakalova, and Kostov dropped by the Collider interview studio at the Cinema Center at MARBL to talk with Perri Nemiroff about the project. Valchanov explains the chronological order of his "absurd" trilogy and talks about wanting to work with his stars, and how the film transformed throughout production. Bakalova and Kostov, who also serve as producers on the film, discuss why they wanted to be a part of this trilogy, how they first met, and why they launched their own production company, Five Oceans.
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