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When Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker, finds millions of lev on the train tracks, he decides to turn the entire amount over to the police. Grateful, the state rewards him with a new wristwatch… which soon stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, the head of PR for the Ministry of Transport, loses his old watch. Here starts Petrov’s desperate struggle to get back not only his old watch, but his dignity.
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A bleakly funny, frustratingly real look at one man's Sisyphean battle against an indifferent system. It’s a slow, grinding descent into bureaucratic absurdity, where a single act of honesty leads to a desperate fight for basic respect.
grittybleakfrustratingdarkly comedicslow-burnsocial realismcharacter studyEuropean cinemabureaucracydignitycorruptionworking-class struggle
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