FATE LIKE A RAT
СЪДБАТА КАТО ПЛЪХ



Bulgaria Macedonia, 2001, 75 minutes

Raw, ironic, paradoxical and tender story about a group of young people who live in a small seaside town. Their way of live is raw, their jokes vulgar and sex - rough. Their understanding of human dignity, friendship and duties are primitive. The spirit of sympathy allows us to understand the main characters and forgive them their minor, "innocent", murders. Little by little we realise that this absurd, pointless way of life is also ours…

"In contrast to the arsenal of firearms on the screen, "Fate as a rat" is not explosive but concentrated revulsion - from the ugliness of the world, life, value systems… And it couldn't be anything else, since we know Ivan Pavlov as a subtle urbane director, living somewhere between intellectual debates and artistic and hooligan improvisations."