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The Dreamed Adventure

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In a border town in southeastern Bulgaria, a woman becomes involved in an illegal trade to help out a man with whom she shares a special bond. Embarking on a perilous adventure in his stead, she ends up confronting both her own desires and her past.

Critics Reviews

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Jessica Kiang Variety 13h
Grisebach’s fourth feature is just such a marvel, a verité social drama, cast with non-professionals, that from the improvisational immediacy of small-scale real life, gradually gathers all the elements of a sprawling crime epic. Go to Full Review Ben Croll TheWrap 1d
This is a film of details and detours, digressive above all, cast with non-professionals native to the region. It plays as an ethnographic travelogue, using a potboiler hook for lightly applied narrative structure. Go to Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian 1d
3/5
The Dreamed Adventure is clearly the work of a director with a fluent, distinctive film-making language, but what she is trying to tell us is elusive. Go to Full Review Cody Dericks Next Best Picture 22h
3/10
And when they’re not talking, Grisebach’s often content to spend long periods simply watching Veska and the film’s other characters placidly observe the world around them while truly nothing happens. Go to Full Review Lee Marshall Screen International 1d
At its heart is the director’s extraordinary deployment of a cast of non-professionals who seem to carry their own stories with them in every line and gesture. Go to Full Review Damon Wise Deadline Hollywood Daily 1d
How [Valeska] Grisebach transforms such an ostensibly drab beginning into a gripping story of mob control, sexual violence and national identity in crisis is a testament to her skill as a director. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Cast & Crew

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Valeska Grisebach

Director

Yana Radeva

Veska

Syuleyman Alilov Letifov

Actor

Stoicho Kostadinov

Actor

Nikolay Shekerdjiev

Actor

Denislava Yordanova

Actor
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The Dreamed Adventure

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Movie Info

Synopsis In a border town in southeastern Bulgaria, a woman becomes involved in an illegal trade to help out a man with whom she shares a special bond. Embarking on a perilous adventure in his stead, she ends up confronting both her own desires and her past.
Director
Valeska Grisebach
Producer
Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski
Screenwriter
Valeska Grisebach, Lisa Bierwirth
Production Co
Komplizen Film, Kazak Productions
Genre
Drama, Adventure
Original Language
Bulgarian
Runtime
2h 47m