The Bright and Dark Side of Things

In this film, Binka Jeliaskova returns to the universe of The Last Word (Poslednata Duma) for an incisive look at the prison system, now in a period far removed from the Second World War, in the middle of the Cold War, filmed before the fall of the Soviet regime. In The Bright and Dark Side of Things (Lice I Opuko), poverty is the motto for stories where you have to steal to survive, where violence is domestic and where children can be a saleable commodity.