15 June / SATURDAY
16:30 – Concert Studio
of Radio Varna
TO REVOKE THE PREDESTINATED
Bulgaria, 2014, 29’, documentary, short
Director: Valentina Fidanova – Kolarova
Screenplay: Prof. Dr. Ivaylo Tarnev, Prof. Dr. Zlatimir Kolarov
Camera: Simeon Grigorov, Kamen Kolev
A film telling the story of the fate of Bulgarian
citizens, affected by the rare hereditary transthyretin familial
amyloidogenesis-associated polyneuropathy (*TTR-FAP*) and its significance for
Bulgaria as endemic country. It’s a film made by two Bulgarian physicians –
scripters - Prof. Dr. Ivaylo Tarnev and Prof. Dr. Zlatimir Kolarov; it is a
shocking picture of the speculations, the hopes and the beliefs of people being
affected by the suffering. It’s a story of the struggle of a specially formed
to fight this illness interdisciplinary team of physicians-experts, to fight
every day, together with the patients and their families, to revoke the
predestinated by the illness doom of these patients.
Special guests: Prof. Dr.
Ivaylo Tarnev - President of the Bulgarian Society of Neuromuscular Diseases and
of the Bulgarian Society of Epilepsy – screenwriter and participant in the
film;
Prof.
Dr. Zlatimir Kolarov – screenwriter;
Valentina
Fidanova – Kolarova – director.
