The Judgment (Bulgarian: Съдилището) is a 2014 drama film directed by Stephan Komandarev. It was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
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Plot
The film takes place in Bulgaria by the Rhodope Mountains, near the Turkish border. A widower, Mityo, needs money to forestall foreclosure on his home. He drives a milk tanker but business is slow, so he reluctantly accepts a job smuggling migrants over the border into Bulgaria. (A character in the film describes the migrants as "Gypsies, Arabs, and blacks"; many of them are presumably Refugees of the Syrian Civil War.) The work reminds Mityo of his military service in the late 1980s, assigned to the Bulgarian border guard, where his task was to prevent citizens from leaving the Eastern Bloc.
Cast
Assen Blatechki as Mitio
Ovanes Torosian as Vasko
Ina Nikolova as Maria
Predrag Manojlovic as The Captain
Paraskeva Djukelova as Kera
Meto Jovanovski as The Doctor
Vasil Vasilev-Zueka as Ramadan
Awards and submissions
The film was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, although it did not receive a nomination.