불가리아 영화 『갈증』과 『수업』 연구 = A Study on Bulgarian Films The Thirst and The Lesson

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Bulgarian films have not attracted attention in Eastern European film history, unlike neighboring countries. In the 2000s, Bulgarian films began to be evaluated at prestigious international film festivals, and more and more were awarded in the competition. Around the year 2015, when the 100th anniversary of the Bulgarian Film Company was celebrated, many works have been supported by the critics, with the term ‘Bulgarian New Wave’ being born.
In this article, I tried to grasp the trend of modern Bulgarian films in detail through the movie The Lesson which was presented at the 15th Jeonju International Film Festival in 2015 and the movie The Thirst which won the Grand Prize at the Sofia International Film Festival Bulgaria Competition in 2016.
Bulgarian films, which have recently been announced at various prestigious film festivals, are characterized by their regional and universal characteristics. Although both of the works mentioned above are based on the village that is far from the Bulgarian capital, what happens there is dealing with human universal desires or events that can occur in any society.
The movie The Thirst, which talks about human fundamental desires, sexual desires, depicts the sexual desires of boy and girl at the threshold of adulthood as a source of life rather than an erotic image.
The problem posed by the movie The Lesson is more social than The Thirst mentioned above. The social message of the film is stronger in that the hero's occupation is the teacher, and the main event happens in the school.