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Time of Violence
Time of Violence
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ludmil Staikov
Written by	Ludmil Staikob, Georgi Danailov, Mihail Kirkov, Radoslav Spasov
Based on	Time of Parting; by Anton Donchev
Produced by	Hristo Nenov
Starring	Yosif Sarchadzhiev; Rusi Chanev; Ivan Krastev; Anya Pencheva;
Cinematography	Radoslav Spasov
Edited by	Violeta Toshkova
Music by	Georgi Genkov
Distributed by	Boyana Film
Release date	28 March 1988;
Running time	288 minutes
Country	Bulgaria
Language	Bulgarian

Time of Violence (Bulgarian: Време разделно) is a 1988 Bulgarian film based on the novel Time of Parting by Anton Donchev. It consists of two episodes with a combined length of 288 minutes. It premiered at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival where it was screened in the Un Certain Regard section.^[1] The film was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards, but was not nominated.^[2]

Plot

The film is set in the Ottoman Empire, in 1668. As Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Pasha concentrates his war efforts on the Cretan War, he grows paranoid of the Sultan's Christian subjects, convinced that they are an uncontrollable threat to the empire unless Islamized.

One of the targets is Elindenya, a village located in a Rhodope valley where the Christian Bulgarians' way of life was for the most part left alone under the Ottoman governor Süleyman Agha's rule. A sipahi regiment is dispatched to the valley with the mission of converting the Christian population to Islam, by force if necessary. The extraordinary thing is that the regiment is led by Kara Ibrahim, a fanatical devshirme from Elindenya, and although Süleyman Agha, feeling that his self-ordained rule is at stake, objects to forced conversions, Kara Ibrahim favors measures of extreme brutality against the local Bulgarians, including his own family.

Cast

Yosif Sarchadzhiev as Kara Ibrahim
Rusi Chanev as Pop Aligorko
Ivan Krastev as Manol
Anya Pencheva as Sevda
Valter Toski as the Venetian
Vasil Mihaylov as Süleyman Aga
Kalina Stefanova as Elitza
Momchil Karamitev as Momchil
Konstantin Kotsev as Dyado Galushko
Stoyko Peev as Goran
Bogomil Simeonov as Ismail Bey
Djoko Rosic as Kara Hasan
Velko Kanev as Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Pasha
Stefka Berova as Gyulfie
Angel Ivanov as Mircho
Nikola Todev as Stoyko Protsvet

References

^ "Festival de Cannes: Time of Violence". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences