Moon Lake (film)

Moon Lake is a 2009 Bulgarian-German-French art film written and directed by Ivan Stanev. The film was produced by independent Bulgarian producer Donka Angelova and co-produced by Stanev Films (Berlin) and Patrick Sandrin (Sofilm). It was presented at Sofia Film Fest 2010 and Cyprus International Film Festival 2012 and later curated by Kathrin Brunner and Oliver Czeslik (mYndstorm productions), Berlin. Moon Lake has a nonlinear narrative structure and uses a leitmotiv technique with recurring themes and day dreams. It focuses not on suspense but on distorted contemplation. The film follows the parallel stories of two couples that represent the doomed lovers Orpheus and Eurydice of Greek mythology. Moon Lake does not have a well-defined storyline, logically coherent cues or a straightforward message. The movie draws inspiration from the Greek Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. In the myth Orpheus travels to the Underworld to save his wife but in the end she is trapped forever. The movie follows two young lovers in an otherworldly marsh by an abandoned crude-oil carrier named "Moon Lake". They play a game about the Thracian singer Orpheus, who ascends from the Underworld, followed by his beloved mistress, Eurydice. Another nameless couple – a lookalike of Orpheus and Eurydice - appear. The trajectories of the two couples never cross. In an elite cave school in the rocky Black Sea coast, a cliff dwelling community is taught survival in a barren moonscape in the wake of the catastrophe. All of them live in an obsessive dream – to leave the Earth in a vessel, like Noah’s Ark, before the explosion of the Sun in four billion years. Yasna Bozhkova: Eurydice Vasil Chitanov: Orpheus Gloria Petkova: Girl in Love Simon Todorov: Boy in Love Michael Cohen: English Teacher Teodor Dobrev: Karl Marx Twins Ivaylo Dobrev: Karl Marx Twins Milena Kerefeyna-Zheleva: Clairvoyant Aurora Timeva: Clairvoyant's Pupil Ivan Ivanov: Oxygen Worker Dorothea Tabakova: Ancient Greek Teacher Boyan Manchev: Philosophy Teacher Vanya Kiritzova: Astrology Teacher Mariana Evlogieva: Esperanto Teacher Konstantin Aleksandrov: Marine Teacher Chorus "Sveta Troitza": Chorus Arabel Karajan: Jazz Band Rosen Zahariev: Jazz Band Aleksandar Evtimov: Jazz Band Georgi Donchev: Jazz Band The story was inspired by a real ship called "Moon Lake", which crashed off the shore of the Black Sea.