Canary Season (1993) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1993 · 128 mins · Bulgarian

Directed by

Evgeni Mihailov

Starring

Дмитрий Сорокин, Paraskeva Djukelova, Nikolai Urumov, Plamena Getova, Eleftery Elefterov, Nevena Kokanova

In 1980, twenty‑year‑old Malin, fatherless, is released after assaulting a lover of his mother Lily. He finds a soldier’s photo in her desk, thinks it’s his father, confronts the teacher, but gets no answer. Lily recounts her bleak past: a court, a prison camp, forced to inform on a kind stranger, an asylum and poverty. Malin must decide how to respond.