Hammer or Anvil
157 mins
This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov. In 1933 during the Reichstag Fire Trial trumped-up charges of having set the Reichstag on fire were brought against him. At the trial Dimitrov exposed the machinations of the Nazis and turned from a defendant into an accuser. Central to the story is the face-to-face political duel between Dimitrov and Goering. Dimitrov's interactions with ordinary Germans, the memories of his wife Lyuba Ivoshevich, and the meetings with his mother Parashkeva alternate with documentary shooting scenes from the time of Nazi Germany.
Wolfgang Ebeling
Writer
Willi Brückner
Writer
Atanas Tasev
Director of Photography
Pavel Vezhinov
Writer
Lyuben Stanev
Novel
Ivan Radoev
Writer
Simeon Pironkov
Music
Elena Dimitrova
Editor